Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Remarks on the Home Squadron and Naval School: By a Gentleman of New York, Formerly Connected With the City Press
F our Extract N o. 71 was an eloquent plea for the mainte nance of our Navy, this one is no less so on the kindred subject of training boys to become sailors.
Its author, Thomas Goin, born only the year after Mr. Bron son published his treatise, may well have read it in his youth, for we find that his interest in the subject dated from his twentieth year and ceased only with his death. He, like so many other pioneers in good causes, did not live to see his plans fully successful. Born in Brooklyn in 1803, he spent his life as a merchant and shipping master, thereby gaining a prae tical knowledge of the need for nautical training, to which he devoted time, labor and money, dying finally from overwork in connection with securing crews for our ships for service in the Mexican War.
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