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Show Salem Made Famous by Its Ships and Traders During the devolution little Salem, under leadership ot Klias t-lasket Derby, furnished nnd equipped lfiS privateers, carrying 2.000 guns and manned by 6.000 men. equal to the en tire population ot the city, writes Wal ter Priehard Oatou in the Washington Star. At the ere of the war, naturally. Salem found itself with a large fleet, much too largt for coastwise trade, nnd n Inrge staff of skippers and sea -men trainea to adventure and daring navigation. Besides the ships and seamen, sea-men, the little town possessed. In Derby Der-by nnd others, owners and merchants of Imagination and Initiative. She wns all set for great tilings. And great things came with a rush, the Derbys, the I'rowinshields and the .est sent their ships around Good Hope, to the East Indies, and long oefore the East Indian traders knew the mimes of Philadelphia. New York. Baltimore or Boston, t hey knew well rhe name of Salem. Derby's famous ship, the Grand Turk, in 1 7S4 was he first A-irican m 'rch:"-'na:i to round the Cape of Good Hopo. |