Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sea Struck is about the final decades of American square-rigged sail, as recorded in firsthand accounts of voyages made by three genteel young men from Massachusetts. There is plenty of adventure for our young men--storms, men overboard, a cargo of "Chinese passengers," discipline that bordered on brutality, and exotic Far East ports--but these interwoven stories also demonstrate the fascinating web of connections in the New England maritime community.

Maine author. W.H. Bunting lives in Whitefield, Me.