Author: Francis Hopkinson Smith
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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"Caleb West, Master Diver" by Francis Hopkinson Smith is a novel based on Smith's experience in the building of the Race Rock Light near Fishers Island, New York in the 1870s. It is a great historical timepiece of social life, the romantic interests of the characters, and heroic deeds of the crew who stood against the face of extreme weather.

Author: F. Hopkinson Smith
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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"Caleb West, Master Diver" is the riveting tale of a master diver called upon to lend his expertise in a government project. "Dear old Captain Joe, he's found her at last!" he said to himself, and laughed aloud. With a joyous enthusiasm that lent a spring and vitality to every movement, he stepped to the window and raised the sash to let in the morning air. It was a gala-day for the young engineer. For months Captain Joe had been in search of a sloop of peculiar construction,—one of so light a draught that she could work in a rolling surf, and yet so stanch that she could sustain the strain of a derrick-boom rigged to her mast. Without such a sloop the building of the lighthouse Sanford was then constructing for the government on Shark Ledge, lying eight miles from Keyport, and breasting a tide running six miles an hour, could not go on. With such a sloop its early completion was assured. The specifications for this lighthouse provided that the island which formed its base—an artificial one made by dumping rough stones over the sunken rock known as Shark's Ledge—should be protected not only from sea action, but from the thrust of floating ice. This Sanford was to accomplish by paving its under-water slopes with huge granite blocks, to form an enrockment,—each block to be bedded by a diver. As the team was assembled, the master Caleb West was called in...

Author: Francis Hopkinson Smith
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Category : Divers
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Author: Francis Hopkinson Smith
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Author: Letta Brock Stone
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Languages : en
Pages : 570

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Author: Francis Hopkinson Smith
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Author: Francis Hopkinson Smith
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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Author: Francis Hopkinson Smith
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 828

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Author: Francis Hopkinson SMITH
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Languages : en
Pages :

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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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