Cappy Ricks

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“A psychologist would have termed Alden P. Ricks an individualist, but his associates in the wholesale lumber and shipping trade of the Pacific Coast proclaimed him a character. In his youth he had made one voyage round Cape Horn as a cabin boy, his subsequent nautical experience having been confined to the presidency of the Blue Star Navigation Company and occasional voyages as a first-cabin passenger. Notwithstanding this apparent lack of salt-water wisdom, however, his intimate knowledge of s

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hips and the men who go down to the sea in them, together with his very distinct personality, had conduced to provide him with a courtesy title in his old age.” By an American novelist Peter B. Kyne (1880 –1957).

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