Forty Years Master

During Daniel O. Killman's more than fifty years at sea, he was shipwrecked off Coos Bay, discovered gold in Alaska, was dismasted near Fiji, lost a rudder en route to Adelaide, had run-ins with bureaucrats, and found himself in court facing charges of murder. His thrilling life at sea during the last decades of sailing ships and the emergence of steam vessels is chronicled in Forty Years Master.