Voyaging : fifty years on the Seven Seas in sail /
pen pictures and paintings by Captain James William Holmes ; edited by his daughter Nora Coughlan ; foreword by John Masefield.
- 207 pages, 21 plates : color illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
A hard mistress -- Mad March days -- The extraordinary skipper of the Kinfauns Castle -- Voyaging to New Zealand and Sydney -- Life in Sydney -- First command -- Lion of the wool fleet -- Sea prophets -- Sink at sight -- The Downs in wartime and in my boyhood -- The last of Britain's tall ships.
Holmes, James William, b. 1855.
Seafaring life. Voyages and travels Clipper ships.