Atlantic Seafaring: Ten Centuries of Exploration and Trade in the North Atlantic Book

	Preface	6
	Introduction	7
	Deepwater sailing ships until 1700	10
	The Norse voyagers	19
	Christopher Columbus	26
	The Bristol merchants	44
	Exploration of the North-American east coast	50
	Exploration of the Gulf of St. Lawrence	55
	English trading voyages to the Caribbean	62
	English voyages of settlement	69
	Pilgrims	82
	Dutch, Swedish and French voyages	87
	The Spanish treasure fleets	89
	Eighteenth-century ships	101
	The slave trade	124
	The Atlantic whaling industry	131
	The Grand Banks	141
	Sailing ships from 1800	147
	The Post-Office packets	148
	American transatlantic packets	151
	The emigrant ships	160
	The British schooners	165
	The timber droghers	167
	The demise of commercial sail	174
	Glossary	178
	List of references	179
	Acknowledgements	181
	Index	189