Caleb West
Author : Francis Hopkinson Smith
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Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,4 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Divers
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Author : Francis Hopkinson Smith
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,4 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Divers
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Author : Francis Hopkinson Smith
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 28,21 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1434420035
Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915) was a civil engineer and author. Many of his novels and short stories were about the Old South.
Author : F. Hopkinson Smith
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Fiction
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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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Page : 394 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 1898
Category : American fiction
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Author : Francis Hopkinson Smith
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Page : 828 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 1902
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Author : Letta Brock Stone
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Page : 570 pages
File Size : 38,97 MB
Release : 1928
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Author : Francis Hopkinson Smith
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Page : 548 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 1902
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Page : 552 pages
File Size : 43,49 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Book collecting
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Page : 970 pages
File Size : 40,94 MB
Release : 1898
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Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,49 MB
Release : 1898
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