MEMOIR: Perhaps you can still locate a copy of this book: Per book review -- "Jack Corbett, Mariner" (2003) by Alfrederick Smith HATCH, is a newly discovered century-old memoir that vividly recounts HATCH's own terrible Irish Famine ship voyage across the Atlantic from England and is "a well-written, illuminating read." Hatch went on to a prominent life in the United States. He helped the financially strapped Union raise crucial money needed to win the Civil War. And he assisted with the financing of the transcontinental railroad, ultimately becoming president of the NY Stock Exchange in 1883. In 1849, however, HATCH was a mere apprentice seaman, who sailed out of Liverpool on the aptly-named "New World," in the company of what he called "the roughest, dirtiest, swearingest, drinkingest men alive." HATCH very likely would not have survived had it not been for a British sailor named Jack CORBETT, who became his guardian and mentor. Also on board the "New World" were Irish refugees from the Famine. And the vivid first-hand descriptions of immigrant hardships are an invaluable resource - he writes of calamities such as sailors frozen to the mast, food riots, and burials at sea. His friendship with a ne'er-do-well Irish immigrant named Jerry McAULEY, who had a religious conversion in Sing Sing prison led to HATCH putting up the money needed to organize what has been described as the world's first rescue mission for the homeless, Helping Hand for Men. Per review in "Irish America" magazine, all royalties (after out-of-pocket expenses) from the sale of the book was to be donated by the Hatch family to The New York City Rescue Mission founded by Jerry McAuley and A. S. Hatch 130 years ago. Afterword in the book is by Denny Hatch. The Quantuck Lane Press - $24.94/269 pages.