Chester Brigham

In Phoenix of the Seas, Chester Brigham chronicles the three-ocean, three-centuries saga of the Gloucester schooner Ernestina-Morrissey, now the State Ship of Massachusetts. Written off as doomed again and again, this indomitable vessel has each time returned to glory in a new life: sailing to the Grand Banks from Gloucester for cod in the 1890s ... voyaging to the Arctic every year for almost two decades on scientific expeditions ... serving under...