decaturs

Updated: May 13, 2025

We who have had so many heroes, such great sailors, such splendid leaders, such explorers our Stanleys, our Farraguts, our Decaturs, our De Longs, our Lockwoods how we would stand ashamed before the world if some other nation should succeed where we have all but succeeded Norway, or France, or Russia, or England profiting by our experiences, following where we have made the way!"

Frank Norris - A Man's Woman

First came Charlton; then followed the Decaturs, whom she knew and liked very well, and engrossed her, happily before her cousin had time to make any inquiries; then came Mr. Carleton; then Mr. Stackpole. Then Mr. Thorn, in expectation of whom Fleda's breath had been coming and going painfully all the evening.

Susan Warner - Queechy, Volume II

First came Charlton; then followed the Decaturs, whom she knew and liked very well, and engrossed her, happily before her cousin had time to make any enquiries; then came Mr. Carleton; then Mr. Stackpole. Then Mr. Thorn, in expectation of whom Fleda's breath had been coming and going painfully all the evening.

Susan Warner - Queechy

Its romance has departed. Our ships should be manned from our boiler shops, and officered from our institutions of technology. There will be no more Decaturs, Somerses, Farraguts, Cushings."

Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot - American Merchant Ships and Sailors