LIFE ON THE GRAND BANKS 111 
Photograph from Phelps Studio 
IN THE HARBOR AT GLOUCESTER 
Within a few years after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, Gloucester had become the pioneer fishing 
port of the New World and a “nursery” for stalwart seamen of the American Navy—the men whose de¬ 
scendants were to make history under such leaders as John Paul Jones, Perry, Lawrence, Bainbridge, and 
Decatur. 
