Courtis, Abel Gardner, b.1838.
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Courtis, Abel Gardner, b.1838.
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Courtis, Abel Gardner, b.1838.
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Courtis was a Massachusetts printer, bookbinder, and poet.
The Fortune was a whaling ship built in Amesbury, Massachusetts in 1822. The Fortune ended its days as part of The Stone Fleet used during the Civil War by the Union Navy as blockships. The fleet, consisting of old ships (mostly whalers) purchased in New Bedford and other New England ports, were loaded with stone and deliberately sunk at the entrance of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina in the hope of obstructing blockade runners. The event inspired Herman Melville to write the poem entitled, "The Stone Fleet."
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Manuscripts, American
Ocean travel in literature
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Massachusetts--New Bedford
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Massachusetts--Lynn
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Pacific Ocean
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Pacific Coast (South America)
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South Atlantic Ocean
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