On Wide Seas

On Wide Seas
Author: Claude Berube
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0817321071

"A detailed account of how the US Navy modernized itself between the War of 1812 and the Civil War, through strategic approaches to its personnel, operations, technologies, and policies, among them an emerging officer corps, which sought to professionalize its own ranks, modernize the platforms on which it sailed, and define its own role within national affairs and in the broader global maritime commons"--

Fourth Arm of Defense

Fourth Arm of Defense
Author: Salvatore R. Mercogliano
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780945274964

This publication is the eighth in the series The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War. The publication focuses on the sealift and logistic operations during the war and includes a number of photographs as well as sidebars detailing specific people and ships involved in the logistic operations. This historical pictorial reference would be of interest to students, historians, members of the military, specifically the Navy, and military leaders, veterans, Vietnam War veterans, and the U.S. merchant marines.

The Texas Navy

The Texas Navy
Author: United States. Naval History Division
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1968
Genre: Ships
ISBN:

Looking for a Ship

Looking for a Ship
Author: John McPhee
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1429958111

This is an extraordinary tale of life on the high seas aboard one of the last American merchant ships, the S.S. Stella Lykes, on a forty-two-day journey from Charleston down the Pacific coast of South America. As the crew of the Stella Lykes makes their ocean voyage, they tell stories of other runs and other ships, tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage.