The Cunard steamers have been running more than a quarter of a century, with the loss of only one ship, and no lives in that one--a triumphant result achieved by strong ships, with competent men to manage them.

Poorly built ships, short manned, with officers unfit for their positions, constitute the harvest of destruction on the ocean.
Mr.Lowington believed that the students of the Academy Ship would be as safe on board the Young America as they would on shore.

He had taken a great deal of pains to demonstrate his theory to parents, and though he often failed, he often succeeded.

The Young America had just passed through one of the severest gales of the year, and in cruising for the next three years, she would hardly encounter a more terrific storm.

She had safely weathered it; the boys had behaved splendidly, and not one of them had been lost, or even injured, by the trying exposure.