A Sailors History Of The Us Navy
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Author | : Thomas J. Cutler |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781591141549 |
Adopted by the U.S. Navy for issue to all new Sailors, A Sailor's History of the U.S. Navy brings to life the events that have shaped and inspired the Navy of today while highlighting the roles of all Sailors?from seaman to admiral. Rather than focus entirely upon such naval icons as Stephen Decatur and Chester Nimitz, as most histories do, author Thomas J. Cutler, a retired lieutenant commander and former second class petty officer, brings to the forefront the contributions of enlisted people. You'll read about Quartermaster Peter Williams, who steered the ironclad Monitor into hi ...
Author | : Michael J. Crawford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : M. Hill Goodspeed |
Publisher | : Hugh Lauter Levin Associates |
Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Building on the official Navy chronologies, this book presents a year-by-year summary of significant naval activities from 1775 to the present. Key historical entries, along with significant operations, technological advances, and narratives of the women and men instrumental in shaping the organisation, are written by leading experts in each subject. With a distinctive battleship cover and 1000 photographs, this authoritative and encyclopaedic account of the U S Navy is an important addition to any military history collection.
Author | : Robert W. McNitt |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This heavily illustrated book chronicles sailing's unique heritage at the Naval Academy from 1845 onward. It begins in the days of fighting sail, when the reputation of a naval officer depended principally on his ability to handle a square-rigged ship and when sailing was the central activity of the school. Sailing offers vivid descriptions of training aboard the grand old practice ships - Constitution, Constellation, and Macedonian - under master mariners like Stephen B. Luce, then moves to the 1930s, when some energetic midshipmen revived the sailing program by entering intercollegiate competition and offshore racing. By 1995 the program was the most popular midshipman activity; academy sailors won the Dinghy National Championship four times in five years and the top prize in the Newport-to-Bermuda Race - after fifty-four years of trying! Written by a well-known sailor and longtime ocean-racing coach at the Academy, the book is filled with dramatic stories of great races and adventurous cruising. And it records the history of the famous Luders yawls Fearless, Dandy, and Flirt, and the donated boats Vamarie, Highland Light, and Royono, among others, plus sixty years of intercollegiate small-boat racing. It also documents the academy's development of the Quick Stop man-overboard rescue maneuver and its Safety at Sea seminar program, both of which have been adopted nationwide. Admiral McNitt credits the contributions and support of the Fales Committee, the Naval Academy Sailing Squadron, and other civilian groups who have provided invaluable support over many years. Appendixes list Dinghy National Championship winners, midshipman All-American sailors, the performance of academy boats inthe Bermuda race, and members of the Fales Committee.
Author | : Craig L. Symonds |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199394946 |
This brisk narrative charts the history of the United States Navy from its birth during the American Revolution through its emergence as a global power amid the world wars of the twentieth century and finally to its current role as a superpower in the twenty-first century.
Author | : Theodore C. Mason |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2013-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612511562 |
Vigorous and highly readable, this portrait of the enlisted man's life aboard the U.S. battleship California depicts the devastation at Pearl Harbor from the hazardous vantage point of the open "birdbath" atop the mainmast.
Author | : Evan Thomas |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2010-06-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1451603991 |
The New York Times bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy. John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey and C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, “in harm’s way.” Evan Thomas’s minute-by-minute re-creation of the bloodbath between Jones’s Bonhomme Richard and the British man-of-war Serapis off the coast of England on an autumn night in 1779 is as gripping a sea battle as can be found in any novel. Drawing on Jones’s correspondence with some of the most significant figures of the American Revolution—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson—Thomas’s biography teaches us that it took fighters as well as thinkers, men driven by dreams of personal glory as well as high-minded principle, to break free of the past and start a new world. Jones’s spirit was classically American.
Author | : Ian W. Toll |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 585 |
Release | : 2008-02-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 039333032X |
From the decision to build six heavy frigates through the cliffhanger campaign against Tripoli to the war that shook the world in 1812, Toll tells the grand tale of the founding of the U.S. Navy.
Author | : John B. Hattendorf |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Willis John Abbot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : United States |
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