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Author | : Eric L. Clements |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2017-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472827929 |
This manual collates authentic period sources including design notes and information for sailors to provide a unique guide to this famous warship. Launched in 1797, USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is renowned for her actions during the War of 1812 against the Britain, when she captured numerous merchant ships and defeated five British warships. The battle with HMS Guerriere earned her the nickname 'Old Ironsides' and a longstanding public adoration that has repeatedly saved her from scrapping. She continued to serve as flagship in the Mediterranean and African squadrons, and circled the world in the 1840s. Retired from active service in 1881, Constitution served as a receiving ship until designated a museum ship in 1907. Comprising a series of documents and illustrations that give information on the building of the ship, her wartime service history and life on board ship during the years of her service, this fascinating book tells the story of Old Ironsides
Author | : Eric L. Clements |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2017-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472827910 |
This manual collates authentic period sources including design notes and information for sailors to provide a unique guide to this famous warship. Launched in 1797, USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is renowned for her actions during the War of 1812 against the Britain, when she captured numerous merchant ships and defeated five British warships. The battle with HMS Guerriere earned her the nickname 'Old Ironsides' and a longstanding public adoration that has repeatedly saved her from scrapping. She continued to serve as flagship in the Mediterranean and African squadrons, and circled the world in the 1840s. Retired from active service in 1881, Constitution served as a receiving ship until designated a museum ship in 1907. Comprising a series of documents and illustrations that give information on the building of the ship, her wartime service history and life on board ship during the years of her service, this fascinating book tells the story of Old Ironsides
Author | : David Fitz-Enz |
Publisher | : Taylor Trade Publications |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2009-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1589794281 |
This is the story of the oldest warship afloat in the world, the venerable frigate USS Constitution, the cornerstone of the nascent American navy created by act of Congress in 1794. Colonel David Fitz-Enz re-creates the world of sail, when seven knots an hour was considered blinding speed for a warship. In Old Ironsides, Fitz-Enz tells the story of the ship, from its construction to the ongoing restoration efforts that keep it active today.
Author | : Nathaniel Bowditch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 798 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Nautical astronomy |
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Author | : William Francis Lynch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1628 |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester |
Publisher | : epubli |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2018-10-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3746772192 |
Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (1899-1966) wrote his novel "The Captain from Connecticut" in 1941, using the pseudonym C. S. (Cecil Scott) Forester. The story of "The Captain from Connecticut" is set at the tail end of the Napoleonic Wars, and the War of 1812, telling the adventures of Captain Josiah Peabody, who, in command of the USS Delaware, escapes the British Blockade out of New York City in the winter of 1813-1814 and sails south to destroy British commerce in the Caribbean.
Author | : United States. Navy Department |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1890 |
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Author | : Abel Bowen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1838 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Paul R. Schratz |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2013-07-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813143624 |
A fascinating personal memoir of underwater combat in World War II, told by a man who played a major role in those dangerous operations. Frank and beautifully written, Submarine Commander's breezy style and irrepressible humor place it in a class by itself. This book will be of lasting value as a submarine history by an expert and as an enduring military and political analysis. In early 1943 the submarine USS Scorpion, with Paul R. Schratz as torpedo officer, slipped into the shallow waters east of Tokyo, laid a minefield, and made successful torpedo attacks on merchant shipping. Schratz participated in many more patrols in heavily mined Japanese waters as executive officer of the Sterlet and the Atule. At war's end he participated in the Japanese surrender, aided the release of American POWs, and had a key role in the disarming of enemy suicide submarines. He then took command of the revolutionary new Japanese submarine I-203 and returned it to Pearl Harbor. But this was far from the end of Schratz's submarine career. In 1949 he commissioned the ultramodern USS Pickerel, the most deadly submarine then afloat, and set a world's record in a 21-day, 5,200-mile submerged passage from Hong Kong to Honolulu. With the outbreak of the Korean War, the Pickerel was immediately sent to Korea to participate in secret intelligence operations only recently declassified and never before revealed in print. Schratz's broad military experience makes this a far from ordinary memoir.
Author | : James Barnes |
Publisher | : New York : Harper & Bros. Pub. |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Canada History War of 1812 Naval operations |
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