Battleship Sailor

Battleship Sailor
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.

Dungaree Liberty

Dungaree Liberty
Author: George William Palmer
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2015-09-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781517250324

Liberty is something that all sailors are familiar with; "dungaree liberty" they may not be. It isn't often used and in today's modern times it isn't much needed. But, sometimes in the past it was used as a very rapid, valuable and effective way to "clean up" a liberty port. Local toughs and troublemakers who preyed on the poor unsuspecting men in navy blue were subdued by sailors who dressed in their dungarees and took the fight to the backstreets, alleys and entertainment spots where the locals had made the fleet unwelcome by making it unsafe for them. When young Torpedoman's Mate Tom Randall first met the beautiful Gloria Reese it was love at first sight. Who knew it would take a dungaree liberty so he could keep her?

Gentleman Captain

Gentleman Captain
Author: J. D. Davies
Publisher: Canelo
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2018-05-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1788631811

Heroism, gunpowder and treachery in the Royal Navy. The first in an extraordinary series of naval adventures 1662: After Matthew Quinton sunk the first ship he was given to command, he is surprised when the King gives him captaincy of H.M.S. Jupiter with orders to stamp out a Scottish rebellion. This time Quinton is determined to prove his worth. In a country of divided loyalties, Charles II needs someone he can trust, and – with an elder brother deep in the King’s confidence – Matthew is one of the few eligible candidates. But now Quinton must face an unruly crew, suspicions of murder, stirrings of conspiracy and the angry seas. Will treason be found in Scotland... or is it lurking closer to home? Packed with gripping naval adventure, Gentleman Captain is the first in the epic Matthew Quinton Journals. It will enthral fans of Julian Stockwin, C.S. Forester’s Hornblower and Patrick O'Brian. ‘Hornblower, Aubrey and Quinton – a pantheon of the best adventures at sea!’ Conn Iggulden ‘Swashbuckling suspense, royal intrigue, and high seas naval action ... an excellent series’ Publishers Weekly ‘Utterly impossible to put down... finely-shaded characters, excellent plotting, gut-clenching action and immaculate attention to period detail ... superb’ Angus Donald, author of The Outlaw Chronicles The Matthew Quinton Journals 1. Gentleman Captain 2. The Mountain of Gold 3. The Blast that Tears the Skies 4. The Lion of Midnight 5. The Battle of the Ages 6. The Rage of Fortune 7. Death's Bright Angel 8. The Devil Upon the Wave

American Sailor

American Sailor
Author: Donald Johnson
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2006-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0595411754

There is nothing glamorous about war! If I had to choose one word to describe war, it would be BORING. War is a LOT of waiting. During WWII in the Navy you did the same routine day after day after day until you did your routine like a bunch of zombies. -from "Life Aboard the Sara During WW II" by Vern Bluhm From World War II through Operation Desert Storm, American Sailor: More Adventures To Go With The Job tells exciting stories of a sailor's life at sea during war and peace. Compiled from the experiences of author Donald Johnson and other U.S. Navy sailors, American Sailor delivers a fascinating glimpse into the everyday exploits of men at sea. Johnson includes riveting accounts of ship collisions, port calls, sailor humor, and personal experiences from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Middle East. Patriotic stories, stories from Navy Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, and tributes are also included. With such adventures as the Battle of Guadalcanal and the Battle of Okinawa as seen through the eyes of a sailor on the USS Saratoga and those of a naval intelligence specialist in Operation Desert Storm, American Sailor demonstrates the uniqueness of life in the Navy.

John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones
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.

Naval Leadership

Naval Leadership
Author: United States Naval Institute
Publisher:
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1925
Genre: Leadership
ISBN:

A Sailor's Log

A Sailor's Log
Author: Frederick T. Wilson
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780873387828

Frederick T. Wilson was an engineer who carried the rank of first-class petty officer and served in one of the US Navy's first modern battleships, the USS Oregon. He also participated in the relief of Peking during the Boxer rebellion. This is an uncensored picture of enlisted life.

A Sailor's Story

A Sailor's Story
Author: Sam Glanzman
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2015-04-15
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 0486798127

"An unabridged republication of the following works originally published by Marvel Comics, New York: A Sailor's Story (1987) and A Sailor's Story, Book Two: Winds, Dreams, and Dragons (1989)"--Title page verso.

To Swear like a Sailor

To Swear like a Sailor
Author: Paul A. Gilje
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2016-02-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521762359

This book explores American maritime world, including cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, and material culture.