bigram

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bigram	frequency
united states	205
new york	135
new england	108
chief mate	92
second mate	82
let go	76
see plate	73
one hundred	58
new orleans	55
standing part	52
see page	47
merchant marine	47
head yards	37
west indies	35
great britain	34
american ships	33
made fast	33
per cent	32
working ship	31
early days	30
merchant vessels	29
topgallant mast	29
one end	28
bad weather	27
great lakes	26
able seaman	25
one another	25
feet long	24
high seas	24
merchant service	23
years later	23
three years	23
new bedford	23
american shipping	23
mizzen topsail	23
topgallant sail	23
two hundred	23
royal yard	22
years ago	22
two years	22
civil war	21
single block	21
carrying trade	21
flying jib	21
lower away	21
open sea	20
three hundred	20
one side	20
four hours	20
able seamen	20
every vessel	20
american merchant	19
ordinary seaman	19
topsail yard	19
lake superior	19
american ship	18
sway away	17
lower rigging	17
make fast	17
topgallant yard	17
four years	17
letting go	17
fore topmast	17
topmast studdingsail	16
square sails	16
main topgallant	16
master must	16
navigation laws	16
ordinary seamen	16
five years	16
steam navigation	16
whale fishery	16
one hand	16
american flag	16
full speed	15
two men	15
starboard watch	15
blue water	15
topmast rigging	15
cape horn	15
slave trade	15
nineteenth century	15
foreign port	15
every man	14
sailing ships	14
lower yard	14
royal navy	14
naval service	14
forward part	14
long island	14
east india	14
one man	14
two vessels	14
american sailor	14
hundred tons	14
cape sabine	14
san francisco	14
five hundred	14
marine architecture	14
four hundred	14
aft sail	13
many years	13
main tack	13
fore topgallant	13
six months	13
rope used	13
single blocks	13
great deal	13
haul taut	13
lake erie	13
hundred feet	13
mizzen topgallant	13
british ships	13
short splice	13
master may	12
west india	12
ten days	12
states government	12
main topmast	12
standing rigging	12
two ships	12
hundred men	12
five days	12
weather clew	12
eight hours	12
green hands	12
hundred years	12
general armstrong	12
eight bells	12
new london	12
going forward	12
packet ships	12
thousand dollars	12
will go	12
fore tack	12
head sheets	12
long time	12
four days	11
sometimes called	11
new englanders	11
american sailors	11
outward bound	11
tackle purchase	11
merchant seamen	11
topgallant sails	11
larboard watch	11
thousand tons	11
cape cod	11
tons burden	11
free trade	11
merchant ships	11
old man	11
starboard tack	11
light sails	11
main royal	11
either side	11
years old	11
british navy	11
main topsail	11
american vessels	11
sandy hook	11
broken water	11
fore part	11
topgallant studdingsail	11
lee one	11
mizzen topmast	11
topsail braces	11
brought back	11
yard ft	11
small vessels	10
running rigging	10
topsail yards	10
elias hasket	10
chief officer	10
topgallant masts	10
one time	10
will come	10
aft sails	10
upper end	10
wages affected	10
two days	10
set aside	10
miles away	10
captain reid	10
half past	10
may well	10
heavy sea	10
lower mast	10
among us	10
fore topsail	10
one half	10
sir john	10
fore royal	10
lee side	10
lower end	10
amasa delano	10
young men	10
two thirds	10
late years	10
vessel may	10
mercantile marine	9
mississippi river	9
riding head	9
good deal	9
eight hundred	9
haul aft	9
two half	9
convoy officer	9
clipper ship	9
topmast staysail	9
rope rove	9
weather side	9
eighteenth century	9
another vessel	9
fifty years	9
twenty years	9
rigged ship	9
upper part	9
long voyage	9
arms ft	9
collins line	9
new jersey	9
run away	9
one day	9
great river	9
forward shroud	9
two thousand	9
new sea	9
topmast stay	9
weather earing	9
foreign trade	9
india trade	9
island sound	9
good hope	9
lee sheet	9
light winds	9
atlantic coast	9
keen look	9
british flag	9
main braces	9
hasket derby	9
seaman may	9
outer end	9
lower yards	9
lower studdingsail	9
royal stay	9
curiously enough	9
present time	8
coasting trade	8
sail set	8
old merchant	8
long voyages	8
later years	8
hundred pounds	8
thousand miles	8
last port	8
goes aloft	8
foreign ports	8
fine weather	8
small craft	8
captain richard	8
sea witch	8
duties aloft	8
long since	8
head sails	8
american seamen	8
almost every	8
carried away	8
naval officers	8
three months	8
commercial agent	8
heavy weather	8
board ship	8
foreign voyage	8
trinity house	8
forty years	8
light hands	8
square sail	8
upper deck	8
chain cable	8
far east	8
almost impossible	8
outer clew	8
angle iron	8
three days	8
north river	8
rope round	8
ten years	8
small stuff	8
north pole	8
war craft	8
two centuries	8
chapter iv	8
starboard side	8
turns round	8
mizzen royal	8
two hours	8
british frigate	8
double block	8
lower block	8
hundred dollars	8
main sheet	8
merchant vessel	8
fishing vessels	8
thrown overboard	8
american vessel	8
studdingsail boom	7
every one	7
river navigation	7
jack yards	7
la salle	7
confederate cruisers	7
large rope	7
feet high	7
seven bells	7
easy task	7
forward guy	7
built vessel	7
high speed	7
east indiamen	7
british ship	7
will take	7
sailing vessels	7
main deck	7
maritime trade	7
third mate	7
good faith	7
naval forces	7
building ships	7
laid rope	7
east indiaman	7
two feet	7
three strands	7
best bower	7
lake huron	7
two great	7
american yards	7
war staff	7
heave short	7
prince de	7
convoy system	7
five per	7
silas talbot	7
whatever may	7
go aloft	7
set sail	7
gross tons	7
five men	7
th day	7
flying cloud	7
good enough	7
great rivers	7
high enough	7
one way	7
weather brace	7
lee ditto	7
chapter vii	7
british commander	7
left hand	7
india company	7
even though	7
head ft	7
double wall	7
eight feet	7
revenue marine	7
west coast	7
shipping merchants	7
single wall	7
high water	7
old sea	7
lee clew	7
tea trade	7
greater part	7
greely expedition	7
lord north	7
black ball	7
salvage section	7
many cases	7
must make	7
two parts	7
little craft	7
western ocean	7
royal braces	7
overhand knot	7
british men	7
chapter iii	7
north sea	7
will make	7
chapter vi	7
naval transport	7
long boat	7
rhode island	7
small measure	7
wooden vessels	7
topmast cross	7
great western	7
good seaman	7
justifiable cause	7
great war	7
fair wind	7
long years	7
one third	7
trade routes	7
three miles	7
lower part	7
head sail	7
will always	7
seaman shall	7
international law	7
sailing ship	7
one pound	7
hundred yards	6
fifteen feet	6
three times	6
british standard	6
master takes	6
five feet	6
smaller craft	6
short voyages	6
much larger	6
two single	6
chain cables	6
one year	6
whole voyage	6
salt water	6
chief engineer	6
must also	6
third part	6
lee shore	6
main yard	6
smaller vessels	6
reefed topsails	6
revenue cutter	6
richard cleveland	6
mate takes	6
two ropes	6
relief expedition	6
stout ships	6
shipping interests	6
may also	6
take care	6
torpedoed ship	6
topmast cap	6
lower masts	6
large vessels	6
captain bob	6
nearly three	6
captain boyle	6
heavily armed	6
till now	6
shipping articles	6
hundred miles	6
topmast backstays	6
reasonable time	6
built ships	6
american privateers	6
one part	6
atlantic packet	6
white ensign	6
must deliver	6
number three	6
every person	6
every day	6
five tons	6
without justifiable	6
will bring	6
fifty men	6
vessel bound	6
jack braces	6
ten thousand	6
chapter ix	6
iron screw	6
chapter ii	6
merchant ship	6
without warning	6
transport officer	6
yards full	6
ocean liners	6
mast ft	6
england coast	6
order given	6
just outside	6
lower cap	6
first steamboat	6
american navy	6
dry dock	6
hauled taut	6
officer may	6
taken aback	6
flush times	6
jack yard	6
larboard side	6
home port	6
seven hundred	6
common seaman	6
whole length	6
may turn	6
states navy	6
two boats	6
six thousand	6
going free	6
distant seas	6
british naval	6
royal yards	6
china trade	6
right whales	6
duty aloft	6
one thousand	6
revenue cutters	6
three thousand	6
hermaphrodite brig	6
centuries ago	6
saving service	6
first voyage	6
captain john	6
making sail	6
east indies	6
one strand	6
sailing close	6
wireless operator	6
american ports	6
alma mater	6
topgallant sheets	6
one rope	6
coasting vessels	6
topsail halyards	6
six hundred	6
aft stays	6
chapter viii	6
seven seas	6
polar regions	6
part iii	6
give way	6
men engaged	6
standing parts	6
british cruisers	6
men go	6
fore sheet	6
custom house	6
make sail	6
weather one	6
ships will	6
british commerce	6
right whale	6
long topgallant	5
considerable distance	5
hands work	5
main rigging	5
great steel	5
work going	5
three feet	5
men aloft	5
sometimes used	5
naval authorities	5
narrow seas	5
royal naval	5
bare poles	5
take advantage	5
taut along	5
around cape	5
wooden ships	5
north pacific	5
british port	5
john franklin	5
hoist away	5
put around	5
raise tacks	5
may go	5
american port	5
every sea	5
fill away	5
war service	5
submarine commander	5
kept us	5
national pride	5
stowed away	5
enemy submarine	5
will give	5
new course	5
ten feet	5
ever since	5
will act	5
many vessels	5
go full	5
short time	5
helm hard	5
french privateers	5
pearl shell	5
relief ship	5
young nation	5
may make	5
naval reserve	5
reefed maintopsail	5
twenty men	5
captain ordronaux	5
weather helm	5
fishing boat	5
right hand	5
inner halyards	5
topsail schooner	5
independent sailings	5
twisted together	5
darkening ship	5
lighthouse system	5
nine knots	5
opened fire	5
well taut	5
york harbor	5
every american	5
per ton	5
one boat	5
mate goes	5
may say	5
water attack	5
first time	5
loud laugh	5
crew shall	5
bowsprit cap	5
jib stay	5
will carry	5
second war	5
ever seen	5
four feet	5
de la	5
last century	5
shipping interest	5
suda bay	5
highest rate	5
british government	5
one anchor	5
sail well	5
gave way	5
will show	5
short distance	5
skysail yards	5
bob waterman	5
entire control	5
clearing hawse	5
ships built	5
foreign vessels	5
use force	5
right angles	5
one years	5
ropes together	5
exceeding five	5
rigged vessel	5
hudson bay	5
boom defences	5
might well	5
go round	5
merchant shipping	5
many men	5
human beings	5
stopper knot	5
larboard tack	5
later date	5
must take	5
hundred per	5
feet beam	5
two ends	5
utmost speed	5
rolling hitch	5
way northward	5
sault ste	5
wind blows	5
every point	5
vessels built	5
timber placed	5
will find	5
large proportion	5
vessels engaged	5
north atlantic	5
yankee ships	5
yards aback	5
short allowance	5
brought us	5
lee quarter	5
iron ring	5
give us	5
main masts	5
end round	5
twentieth century	5
pleasure craft	5
second voyage	5
captain jonathan	5
may come	5
one thing	5
special duties	5
lower lift	5
common seamen	5
skysail yard	5
single anchor	5
single rope	5
small vessel	5
grand bank	5
twelve hundred	5
spanish main	5
new englander	5
open boats	5
vessel will	5
england fishermen	5
one watch	5
ocean escort	5
new type	5
various purposes	5
every side	5
months later	5
detroit river	5
war trident	5
donald mckay	5
seaman must	5
destroyer escort	5
fine ship	5
later days	5
great fleet	5
international code	5
came back	5
upper ends	5
without leave	5
earliest days	5
bound convoy	5
ship construction	5
without taking	5
jonathan haraden	5
sail may	5
five dollars	5
steel steamers	5
bound vessels	5
placed across	5
old days	5
watch duty	5
spanker sheet	5
atlantic trade	5
growing scarcity	5
round seizing	5
almost entirely	5
line used	5
one great	5
blowing directly	5
yards sharp	5
throat seizing	5
million dollars	5
illegal voyage	5
small stuffs	5
starboard tacks	5
gull lightship	5
inner end	5
close astern	5
take hold	5
topgallant rigging	5
new ships	5
weather sheet	5
first reef	5
uncle sam	5
many instances	5
yankee clipper	5
ocean steamships	5
little time	5
fur traders	5
two watches	5
rope attached	5
weather conditions	5
small line	5
black smoke	5
one inch	5
set forth	5
lawful occasions	5
almost wholly	5
british vessels	5
rule applies	4
home ports	4
thousand pounds	4
years earlier	4
fifth avenue	4
aft rigged	4
curious fact	4
may leave	4
running fore	4
twisting together	4
every effort	4
tacks aboard	4
standard ship	4
golden days	4
vessel goes	4
long tom	4
large ship	4
main topsails	4
great ships	4
mainsail haul	4
atlantic seaboard	4
let us	4
misty sea	4
mississippi valley	4
little less	4
carpenters joiners	4
nova scotia	4
every hour	4
master gives	4
next morning	4
irish sea	4
fifteen tons	4
one piece	4
topgallant braces	4
ship will	4
go astern	4
sails take	4
sister ship	4
every nook	4
set taut	4
whole coast	4
brace aback	4
whale oil	4
american marine	4
yankee boys	4
heavy head	4
neutral vessels	4
heavy seas	4
blackwall hitch	4
larger ships	4
four times	4
regular trade	4
sails aback	4
took us	4
calm weather	4
privateering system	4
largest class	4
small sail	4
coastal services	4
part ii	4
open boat	4
certified copy	4
will fall	4
topsail schooners	4
fore yard	4
iron ore	4
good weather	4
lower deck	4
revenue service	4
channel buoys	4
lee brace	4
ship seems	4
days ago	4
spritsail yard	4
within three	4
pounds sterling	4
merchant sailors	4
aft schooner	4
commanding officer	4
vessels bound	4
outer halyards	4
wages paid	4
tackle used	4
one vessel	4
new order	4
nearly every	4
three ships	4
best way	4
present day	4
enemy submarines	4
dock gates	4
trading voyage	4
boarding officer	4
ever present	4
american shipmasters	4
middle passage	4
southampton water	4
british privateer	4
bow wash	4
prison ship	4
captain samuel	4
littleton island	4
south america	4
sheet aft	4
six hours	4
master usually	4
two masts	4
sails may	4
england early	4
old sailing	4
american navigation	4
gun ship	4
heavy laden	4
ton sloop	4
mate must	4
registered vessel	4
last week	4
proper place	4
men set	4
british began	4
voyage across	4
convoy lieutenant	4
light sail	4
will prevent	4
main tacks	4
inner yard	4
shot away	4
high tide	4
lower ends	4
pacific coast	4
rigged like	4
go back	4
second officer	4
brave men	4
made mast	4
fast vessels	4
better speed	4
help us	4
cut away	4
left little	4
liverpool packet	4
navy officers	4
may require	4
raise fore	4
swept away	4
number four	4
wooden ship	4
mizzen rigging	4
hole cut	4
yard will	4
ever carried	4
sent home	4
sea stores	4
torpedo attack	4
ledge light	4
john fitch	4
naval protection	4
every kind	4
first night	4
ohio company	4
general law	4
clove hitch	4
large fleet	4
vastly superior	4
thirteen days	4
great numbers	4
fishing fleets	4
preventer stern	4
main spencer	4
free ships	4
least one	4
ropes used	4
upper block	4
bering sea	4
heavy gale	4
german submarine	4
whole crew	4
american government	4
captain greenville	4
within sight	4
fore stay	4
may get	4
northwest coast	4
well enough	4
five minutes	4
almost incredible	4
arctic regions	4
steamship companies	4
shoot ahead	4
western rivers	4
anchoring ground	4
flemish eye	4
eighty tons	4
jersey prison	4
will serve	4
boston light	4
six years	4
palm branch	4
swung outboard	4
main stay	4
must give	4
animal life	4
hospital money	4
iron steamship	4
practical seamanship	4
jib sheets	4
chapter xi	4
fourteen days	4
large ships	4
ten miles	4
opposite direction	4
mother country	4
little town	4
first transport	4
napoleonic wars	4
wound round	4
century ago	4
one voyage	4
around us	4
sails full	4
main yards	4
steamship company	4
armed ships	4
two large	4
hundred thousand	4
opposite side	4
yankee privateer	4
topgallant stay	4
gowan lea	4
fishing boats	4
great ship	4
taking care	4
examination service	4
whistling buoy	4
thirty feet	4
must obey	4
homeward bound	4
suez canal	4
one single	4
admiralty instructions	4
new master	4
cruel treatment	4
ann alexander	4
troop transports	4
large ropes	4
sailing vessel	4
ten hours	4
ship owning	4
within range	4
maritime adventure	4
north america	4
longshore view	4
transport services	4
power leads	4
great ocean	4
braces reeve	4
shipping contract	4
studdingsail halyards	4
flying moor	4
inferior duties	4
fore skysail	4
rigged brig	4
american people	4
black cook	4
early morning	4
much less	4
long splice	4
man will	4
spectacle reef	4
jib sheet	4
ropes go	4
old school	4
even now	4
master builder	4
military service	4
england fisheries	4
reefing topsails	4
may take	4
british seamen	4
skysail mast	4
iron trusses	4
lets go	4
many new	4
wind free	4
one mast	4
first mate	4
smooth sea	4
young man	4
old new	4
whole fleet	4
may still	4
good service	4
seventeenth century	4
superior force	4
british shipping	4
water front	4
one ship	4
national government	4
stout oak	4
might encounter	4
first vessel	4
one instance	4
six men	4
little ships	4
water mark	4
never seen	4
frozen deep	4
weather yard	4
first place	4
men employed	4
new life	4
know whether	4
common term	4
ann mckim	4
fishing banks	4
naval officer	4
golden eagle	4
bore away	4
sufficient headway	4
studdingsails set	4
four boats	4
private armed	4
every imaginable	4
international trade	4
baltimore clipper	4
rapid development	4
fighting whales	4
revolutionary army	4
foreign flags	4
round cape	4
will never	4
submarine commanders	4
general term	4
small boat	4
stout old	4
american clipper	4
clear away	4
false keel	4
standing watch	4
foreign markets	4
pilgrim fathers	4
divided among	4
full measure	4
first boat	4
foreign nations	4
two months	4
three vessels	4
merchant officers	4
liver buildings	4
cut splice	4
easy one	4
going across	4
groove round	4
short round	4
long voyaging	4
american merchantmen	4
old rope	4
reefed foresail	4
first american	4
wood used	4
three fourths	4
sheet knot	4
channel waters	4
stormy weather	4
several hundred	4
maritime history	4
good workman	4
different parts	4
fifty tons	4
sixteen hundred	4
six feet	4
vessel shall	4
inward bound	4
gathers headway	4
shroud knot	4
middle third	4
whaling industry	4
american shipbuilders	4
sailing orders	4
american line	4
north american	4
nine thousand	4
sized vessels	4
short term	4
captain geddes	4
well secured	4
year later	4
matthew walker	4
captain delano	4
north end	4
hard work	4
steam power	4
will stand	4
last word	4
iron bar	4
erie canal	4
little distance	4
old age	4
mizzen skysail	4
british cruiser	4
nothing else	4
boston harbor	4
dead reckoning	4
french west	4
short piece	4
may claim	4
timber hitch	4
starboard bow	4
whole year	4
strand round	3
american waters	3
men flying	3
stern high	3
single crown	3
ever heard	3
retreated farther	3
belay ropes	3
passenger traffic	3
stern wash	3
general rules	3
fast round	3
stern foremost	3
reach us	3
short interval	3
general directions	3
fifteen thousand	3
every device	3
seven feet	3
exciting moment	3
four guns	3
spring tides	3
salvage vessel	3
part played	3
royal backstays	3
may see	3
going aloft	3
already referred	3
boiler explosions	3
lieutenant greely	3
steamships cheaper	3
loses headway	3
best men	3
explosive bomb	3
will keep	3
sails fill	3
earliest american	3
shore whaling	3
board fore	3
seven men	3
war progressed	3
topmast stays	3
lee anchor	3
mate gave	3
rigged ships	3
german submarines	3
given place	3
early winter	3
sea fisheries	3
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