[AMERICAN CIVIL WAR] &
[CHESAPEAKE BAY]
Sailing Directions for the Coast of North America from New York to Cape Florida. Compiled from the most recent surveys.
A RARE CIVIL WAR SAILING GUIDE FOR THE EAST COAST
[AMERICAN CIVIL WAR] &
[CHESAPEAKE BAY]
Sailing Directions for the Coast of North America from New York to Cape Florida. Compiled from the most recent surveys.
First published in 1854, it’s possible that this work was updated and re-issued for use by blockade runners in the American Civil War. The newly formed Confederate States of America had no navy of its own to speak of and thus turned to England for the construction of its ships. The vessels were designed primarily for speed and often sailed at night to evade Union ships patrolling the length of the Atlantic coast.
This compact directory of sailing instructions along the east coast of America. The directions commence with a route from New York to Delaware Bay, a description of the Coast Between Delaware Bay and Chesapeake Bays (including 13pp notes on Chesapeake Bay), and finally Chesapeake Bay to Cape Florida.
The five illustrations are coastal profiles of “Little Egg Harbour”, “Bombay Hook Woods from the Main Channel”, “Bombay Hook Light from the Main Channel”, “Liston’s Point from the Main Channel”, and “Reedy Island Light … from the Main Channel.”
Rare. OCLC locates just two copies at Jacksonville Public Library and the Clements.
cf, Sabin 74959 (for first edition, this edition not in Sabin).
