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He got the job. This may or may not be an exaggeration. The skill of these ship-carpenters was something for us to marvel at. With a few crude tools — a broad axe, an adz, a chisel, a saw, and a ham- mer — they could fashion rough pieces of timber into a fleet sailing vessel. And "many a man among them could with the broad axe hew so closely to the line, and so smoothly, that the plane could hardly improve the surface. " The War of 1812, with H. M. Brig Niiinocl in Buzzards Bay, put a temporary... crimp in activities; but after 1815 we come to the 45 years when the American merchant fleet became the largest in the world, and when New Bedford became the center of the whaling industry, one of the great businesses of the world. As the years rolled on, Mattapoisett became the premier supplier of ships for that industry. Many of the vessels in the whaling fleet were merchant ships rebuilt and altered into whalers; but as the years went by, agents realized the wisdom of purchasing sturdy vessels built specifically for whaling by men experienced and skilled m the craft.
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