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Mother Careys Chickens Mother Careys Chickens
Mother Carey's Chickens is a seafarer's name for seabirds, the storm petrels (family Hydrobatidae). The name is a corruption of Mater Cara, darling mother. Sailors believed they came to warn them of approaching storms, and since each bird contained the soul of a drowned seaman it was most unlucky... Read more
Richard Henry Dana Richard Henry Dana
Richard Henry Dana 1787-1879, American poet and essayist, b. Cambridge, Mass.; son of Francis Dana. After studying law, he was admitted to the bar in 1811. Critic and poet, Dana was a founder and editor of the North American Review and also contributed to other periodicals. His best-known poem, ... Read more
Cape Verdeans Cape Verdeans
Cape Verdeans ETHNONYMS: In New England: Black Portuguese, Brava, Crioul Orientation Identification. Most Cape Verdeans dwell in their native Cape Verde Islands off the coast of West Africa. Diaspora settlements, however, are located around the world. "Cape Verde" refers to the green... Read more
Flying Dutchman Flying Dutchman
The Flying Dutchman Sailors in Holland long believed that a Dutch skipper named van Straaten was condemned as a penalty for his sins to sail for year after year through the seas around the Cape of Storms (an early name for the Cape of Good Hope). Crews returning to the Zudyer Zee (the northern... Read more
Tribute Tribute
TRIBUTE TRIBUTE. Thomas Jefferson's new administration faced a crisis regarding the Barbary pirate nations of North Africa. For years, European nations and the United States had paid tribute, or ransom, to these rogue nations to ensure protection of commercial vessels and keep sailors from being... Read more
Charles Nordhoff Charles Nordhoff
Charles Nordhoff , 1830-1901, American journalist and author, b. Westphalia. In 1835 he emigrated with his family to Cincinnati. His service (1844-47) in the navy, and later on whaling and fishing ships, provided literary material for his books Nine Years a Sailor (1857) and Stories of the Island... Read more
bluejacket bluejacket
bluejacket, a descriptive term used to describe the seaman of a British warship. It came into being in 1858 when rules for the uniform of seamen were promulgated, which included a jacket ‘to be made of navy blue cloth double-breasted, with stand tall collar … to reach the hips... Read more
Lorelei Lorelei
Lorelei , cliff, 433 ft (132 m) high, on the right bank of the Rhine River, near St. Goarshausen, W Germany, about midway between Koblenz and Bingen. There the Rhine forms a dangerous narrows, and in German legend a fairy similar to the Greek Sirens lived on the rock and by her singing lured the... Read more
aloft aloft
aloft, above, overhead, also anywhere about the upper yards, masts, and rigging of a square-rigged ship and other sailing vessels. ‘Away aloft’ was the command for topmen in square-riggers to take up their stations on the masts and yards. In the days of sail gone aloft was a sailor's... Read more
Kronshtadt Kronshtadt
Kronshtadt , city, NW European Russia, on the small island of Kotlin in the Gulf of Finland, c.15 mi (20 km) from Saint Petersburg . It is one of the chief naval bases for the Russian Baltic fleet. The harbor is icebound for several months each year. It was founded (1703) by Peter I as a port and a... Read more

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