Clipper Ship Captain: Daniel McLaughlin and the Glory of the Seas Book

Michael Jay Mjelde's Glory of the Seas, a history of Donald McKay's last great clipper ship, was the first volume in Mystic Seaport's American Maritime Library Series. In this new book he brings us the biography of her most accomplished captain, Daniel McLaughlin. A native of Nova Scotia, as were so many of the deepwater mariners of the clipper-ship era, Daniel McLaughlin had been captain of the great Herald of the Morning for three years before taking command of Glory. Mjelde brings us the adventurous life of this master mariner and his greatest ship, focusing on the wheat trade between San Francisco and England, on record-breaking runs around Cape Horn, on the man's grave responsibilities for safely delivering ship, crew and cargo.