I'll add to the list: Voyage by Sterling Hayden It's a book about a South Easter ship doing a coal delivery from East to West coast of the USA via Cape Horn. T

I'll add to the list: Voyage by Sterling Hayden It's a book about a South Easter ship doing a coal delivery from East to West coast of the USA via Cape Horn. The book doesn't seem to be very popular, but IMO the most vivid depiction of merchant navy under sail, written by someone who lived it.