{"id":462,"date":"2012-02-27T13:39:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T13:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sealitsearchable\/?p=462"},"modified":"2022-06-25T18:08:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:08:50","slug":"hine-ephraim-curtiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/h\/hine-ephraim-curtiss\/","title":{"rendered":"Hine, Ephraim Curtiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>by Thomas Farel Heffernan&nbsp;<\/em>(2000)<\/p>\n<p>HINE, EPHRAIM CURTISS (1818?-1853). Sailor and author raised in Genoa, New York, Ephraim Curtiss Hine is best known today as the model for the nautical poet Lemsford in Herman Melville&#8217;s novel <em>White-Jacket<\/em> (1850). Melville, who was Hine&#8217;s shipmate on the frigate <em>United States<\/em> during 1843-1844, treats the poet in the novel with a gentle irony; while there is no other record of relationship between the two, the title of one of Hine&#8217;s novels, <em>Orlando Melville: or, the Victims of the Press-gang<\/em> (1848) is suggestive. Hine&#8217;s poems, mailed home during his navy service, were published in Auburn, New York, newspapers and collected in a volume, <em>The Haunted Barque<\/em> (1848); they are travel pieces, naval sketches, romantic tragedies, melancholy musings, and other popular types. His novels and short stories include <em>Roland de Vere; or, The Knight of the Black Plume<\/em> (1848), <em>The Signal; or, the King of the Blue Isle<\/em> (1848), and <em>Wilson McFarland <\/em>(1850?).<\/p>\n<p>After leaving the navy, Hine joined the Revenue Cutter Service and died in the shipwreck of the cutter <em>Hamilton<\/em> off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina. By odd coincidence, another revenue cutter, the <em>Jefferson Davis<\/em>, which made a vain rescue attempt, was captained by William C. Pease, the son-in-law of Valentine Pease, the captain under whom Melville served on the whaleship <em>Acushnet<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><em>Haunted Barque<\/em> (1848)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/stream\/hauntedbarqueand00hineiala\/hauntedbarqueand00hineiala_djvu.txt\">Archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>keywords: white, male<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Thomas Farel Heffernan&nbsp;(2000) HINE, EPHRAIM CURTISS (1818?-1853). Sailor and author raised in Genoa, New York, Ephraim Curtiss Hine is best known today as the model for the nautical poet Lemsford in Herman Melville&#8217;s novel White-Jacket (1850). Melville, who was <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/h\/hine-ephraim-curtiss\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&amp;<\/span> text links<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":769,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25921],"tags":[53755,53761,53777,53766,53784],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h","tag-19th-century","tag-fiction","tag-navy-coast-guard","tag-poetry","tag-short-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/769"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6412,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/6412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}