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Freedom Calling - Sailing Barque / Whaling Ship, The Lady Grey
Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes by Sea
FREEDOM CALLING: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea by Dana Vacca
Book Highlights / Excerpts
The Lady Grey is a 19th century whale ship - a barque, in style. Her home port was New Bedford, Massachusetts but her whaling voyages, lasting one to two years, took her all over the globe.
Book Excerpt ...the captain walked the starboard stretch of the sternmost upper deck - his private retreat. Most of his time, though, was spent on the quarterdeck, just behind the main mast of the ship. That was his domain, his throne, where he reigned supreme. There, he knew the real meaning of freedom that most landsmen can only imagine.
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FREEDOM CALLING: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea by Dana Vacca
Book Highlights / Excerpts
The Lady Grey is a 19th century whale ship - a barque, in style. Her home port was New Bedford, Massachusetts but her whaling voyages, lasting one to two years, took her all over the globe.
Book Excerpt ...the captain walked the starboard stretch of the sternmost upper deck - his private retreat. Most of his time, though, was spent on the quarterdeck, just behind the main mast of the ship. That was his domain, his throne, where he reigned supreme. There, he knew the real meaning of freedom that most landsmen can only imagine.
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Freedom Calling: Captain MacGregor & the Lady Grey
Book Highlights From:
FREEDOM CALLING: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea - by Dana Vacca
Captain Eben MacGregor, Master of the whaling ship, Lady Grey.
"...always present, like my own breath, was the sound of the blue-violet sea that whished along the sides of the great wooden ship like liquid silk as, heeled over with the wind on her quarter, the LADY GREY softly cut her path to the north."
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Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes by Sea
FREEDOM CALLING: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea - by Dana Vacca
Captain Eben MacGregor, Master of the whaling ship, Lady Grey.
"...always present, like my own breath, was the sound of the blue-violet sea that whished along the sides of the great wooden ship like liquid silk as, heeled over with the wind on her quarter, the LADY GREY softly cut her path to the north."
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Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes by Sea
New Bedford, Massachusetts - 1864
FREEDOM CALLING by Dana Vacca
BOOK EXCERPTS
Celia had never seen a place like New Bedford,.... The busy sea-faring village was a melting pot of cultures and its townspeople, as a whole, were friendly and congenial. One could not find a place more accepting of differences in skin color or customs than New Bedford,...
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BOOK EXCERPTS
Celia had never seen a place like New Bedford,.... The busy sea-faring village was a melting pot of cultures and its townspeople, as a whole, were friendly and congenial. One could not find a place more accepting of differences in skin color or customs than New Bedford,...
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FREEDOM CALLING - The Captain's House
FREEDOM CALLING by Dana Vacca
Book Excerpts - The Captain's House
"Facing me was a fine, gracious mansard with an ornately-corbeled roof and a projecting bay, like the arc of a rainbow that made the front of the residence resemble the prow of a ship. At the highest point was a crested turret with windows like large spectacles looking to the sea. Altogether, it bespoke opulence, and that the captain was, undoubtedly, a man of means,..."
County Street, New Bedford, just a short walk from the wharf, was where many sea captains and ship owners built large, magnificent homes for themselves and their families. From rooftop cupola's or widow's walks they had almost a bird's eye view of the harbor and could keep an close watch on their ships being loaded, unloaded or re-fitted.
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Book Excerpts - The Captain's House
"Facing me was a fine, gracious mansard with an ornately-corbeled roof and a projecting bay, like the arc of a rainbow that made the front of the residence resemble the prow of a ship. At the highest point was a crested turret with windows like large spectacles looking to the sea. Altogether, it bespoke opulence, and that the captain was, undoubtedly, a man of means,..."
County Street, New Bedford, just a short walk from the wharf, was where many sea captains and ship owners built large, magnificent homes for themselves and their families. From rooftop cupola's or widow's walks they had almost a bird's eye view of the harbor and could keep an close watch on their ships being loaded, unloaded or re-fitted.
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FREEDOM CALLING - Celia Arrives In New Bedford
FREEDOM CALLING by Dana Vacca
Book Excerpts - New Bedford Harbor
New Bedford harbor was teeming with activity. Sailing ships coming and going, - loading and unloading cargo in the wharf district...... New Bedford was also the whaling capitol of the world!,.... it was the city that lit the world with its constant supply of whale oil to light the lanterns of homes everywhere!
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Book Excerpts - New Bedford Harbor
New Bedford harbor was teeming with activity. Sailing ships coming and going, - loading and unloading cargo in the wharf district...... New Bedford was also the whaling capitol of the world!,.... it was the city that lit the world with its constant supply of whale oil to light the lanterns of homes everywhere!
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Civil War Era NEW BEDFORD WHALING SHIP - The Lady Grey
FREEDOM CALLING: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea
Book by Dana Vacca
BOOK HIGHLIGHTS - Lady Grey (Ship)
The beautiful sailing barque, Lady Grey, underway with nearly full sail, her hull cuts gracefully through the water toward New Bedford.
Like many whaling and merchant ships of her day, she had "painted on" gun ports (only two were real), so that, from a distance, she had the look of a "ship of the line" and would be thought to be carrying a row of cannon along her larboard and starboard sides. However, this did not insure safety as a privateer captain worth his salt had every ship he had ever seen etched into his memory,... by the line of her hull, the configuration of her masts and sails, - and most often knew which battlements were feigned and which were real!
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Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea
Book by Dana Vacca
BOOK HIGHLIGHTS - Lady Grey (Ship)
The beautiful sailing barque, Lady Grey, underway with nearly full sail, her hull cuts gracefully through the water toward New Bedford.
Like many whaling and merchant ships of her day, she had "painted on" gun ports (only two were real), so that, from a distance, she had the look of a "ship of the line" and would be thought to be carrying a row of cannon along her larboard and starboard sides. However, this did not insure safety as a privateer captain worth his salt had every ship he had ever seen etched into his memory,... by the line of her hull, the configuration of her masts and sails, - and most often knew which battlements were feigned and which were real!
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Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea
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Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea
Freedom Calling - The LADY GREY based on the Real-Life Ship, TRUELOVE
A Real Ship and A Real Live Sea Captain!
The ship and the captain in FREEDOM CALLING were inspired by a real ship, the TRUELOVE, & her captain, John Parker. I thought they should be immortalized!
The Truelove was in service for 130 yrs! - the longest of any other wooden hull ship. She was built in 1764 in Philadelphia and was used by America to fight the British during the American Revolution. She was captured by the British, taken to England, and sold as spoils of war. She became a whaling vessel!
Her design was "tumbling home" style, which meant her sides curved up and inward which made her especially seaworthy. She sailed to the Artic on whaling sojourns under Captain Parker, and because of her design, she never got stuck in the ice like so many other vessels. When the ice began freezing around her, because of her hull-shape, the ice just pushed her up, instead of crushing her (many ship that sailed the Arctic were stove in and broken apart by the ice, like the disaster in 1871 when thirty-three ships were lost,... but that's another story, I'll save for later!). As the ice melted Truelove had the habit of being able to set herself gently back down into the sea!
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Book Excerpt: "She was a beautiful ship, the way her bow cut the sea-the feel of her deck under your feet with the sea moving beneath her; the way her rigging sang in the wind; how she would shrug a rough sea off her beam. Some ships have a soul, and to be aboard one like that is to know majesty."
NOTES:
AH! The romance of the sea,.... and the free spirits of brave, intrepid sea captains,.... I LOVE IT! Hope you find this as fascinating as I did! (see links below).
More about the real ship that inspired the creation of the fictional LADY GREY:
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Truelove_(...
https://www.kcomhome.com/hull2017/new...
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Freedom Calling BOOK Link: https://amzn.to/2MfiMiW
Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes by Sea
The ship and the captain in FREEDOM CALLING were inspired by a real ship, the TRUELOVE, & her captain, John Parker. I thought they should be immortalized!
The Truelove was in service for 130 yrs! - the longest of any other wooden hull ship. She was built in 1764 in Philadelphia and was used by America to fight the British during the American Revolution. She was captured by the British, taken to England, and sold as spoils of war. She became a whaling vessel!
Her design was "tumbling home" style, which meant her sides curved up and inward which made her especially seaworthy. She sailed to the Artic on whaling sojourns under Captain Parker, and because of her design, she never got stuck in the ice like so many other vessels. When the ice began freezing around her, because of her hull-shape, the ice just pushed her up, instead of crushing her (many ship that sailed the Arctic were stove in and broken apart by the ice, like the disaster in 1871 when thirty-three ships were lost,... but that's another story, I'll save for later!). As the ice melted Truelove had the habit of being able to set herself gently back down into the sea!
**********
Book Excerpt: "She was a beautiful ship, the way her bow cut the sea-the feel of her deck under your feet with the sea moving beneath her; the way her rigging sang in the wind; how she would shrug a rough sea off her beam. Some ships have a soul, and to be aboard one like that is to know majesty."
NOTES:
AH! The romance of the sea,.... and the free spirits of brave, intrepid sea captains,.... I LOVE IT! Hope you find this as fascinating as I did! (see links below).
More about the real ship that inspired the creation of the fictional LADY GREY:
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Truelove_(...
https://www.kcomhome.com/hull2017/new...
PICS: https://www.facebook.com/CivilWarHist...
Freedom Calling BOOK Link: https://amzn.to/2MfiMiW
Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes by Sea
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