Jack Corbett mariner

the long version

"In 1849, Alfredrick Hatch, a delicate and slightly asthmatic youth, was dispatched to sea by his physician father to "either cure him or kill him." He signed on as an apprentice seaman on a Liverpool packet, in the company of the "roughest, dirtiest, swearingest, drinkingest men alive." Hatch probably would not have survived had he not been befriended by an illiterate, bewhiskered Jack-tar named Jack Corbett, who became his guardian and mentor. The story of their sailing together is the centerpiece of this previously unpublished narrative." "Thirty years later, after Hatch had become a prosperous and powerful Wall Street banker, one of the principals in selling bonds to finance the Union's effort in the Civil War, and President of the New York Stock Exchange, Jack re-entered his life to become a member of the Hatch household, where he became the guardian to Hatch's eleven children and remained to the end of his days."--BOOK JACKET.