American Yachts In Naval Service

Author : Kenneth Howard Goldman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476682600

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American Yachts in Naval Service by Kenneth Howard Goldman Pdf

Before there was a U.S. Navy, several Colonial navies were all-volunteer--both the crews and the vessels. From its beginnings through World War II, the Navy has relied on civilian sailors and their fast vessels to fill out its ranks of small combatants. Beginning with the birth of the yacht in the Netherlands in the 17th century , this illustrated history traces the development of yacht racing, the advent of combustion-engine power and the contribution privately owned vessels have made to national defense. Vessels conscripted during the Civil War served both the Union and Confederacy--sometimes changing sides after capture. The first USS Wanderer saw the slave trade from both sides of the law. Aboard the USS Sylph, Oscar-winning actor Ernest Borgnine fought the Third Reich's U-boats under sail. USS Sea Cloud made history as the first racially integrated ship in the Navy, three years before President Truman desegregated the military.

Author : Kenneth Howard Goldman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476640747

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American Yachts in Naval Service by Kenneth Howard Goldman Pdf

Before there was a U.S. Navy, several Colonial navies were all-volunteer--both the crews and the vessels. From its beginnings through World War II, the Navy has relied on civilian sailors and their fast vessels to fill out its ranks of small combatants. Beginning with the birth of the yacht in the Netherlands in the 17th century , this illustrated history traces the development of yacht racing, the advent of combustion-engine power and the contribution privately owned vessels have made to national defense. Vessels conscripted during the Civil War served both the Union and Confederacy--sometimes changing sides after capture. The first USS Wanderer saw the slave trade from both sides of the law. Aboard the USS Sylph, Oscar-winning actor Ernest Borgnine fought the Third Reich's U-boats under sail. USS Sea Cloud made history as the first racially integrated ship in the Navy, three years before President Truman desegregated the military.

Author : Ken Goldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Government vessels
ISBN : 1889901717

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Champagne and Cordite by Ken Goldman Pdf

Author : Richard H. Gimblett
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459713222

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The Naval Service of Canada, 1910-2010 by Richard H. Gimblett Pdf

This highly illustrated commemorative volume chronicles the full century of the Canadian navy as a proud national institution. Comprehensive coverage includes the origins of the Canadian navy in 1867, both world wars, the Korean conflict, the postwar period, and a look at the navy of the future.

Author : Steve Dunn
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399059756

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Steam Yachts at War by Steve Dunn Pdf

This is the story of how the luxurious steam yachts of the Victorian and Edwardian eras were transformed into weapons of war. These beautiful vessels were the ultimate status symbols of British and European royalty, American magnates, the landed aristocracy and the nouveau riche, but when wars came, in 1898 and 1914, they were quickly transformed into warships, and many of their crews became warriors rather than servants. The US Navy was the first to recognise the potential of these elegant vessels. In the Spanish-American war of 1898, the USN – short of ships to operate a blockade of Spanish-owned Cuba – purchased twenty-eight of them and turned them into patrol craft and bombardment ships. In Britain in 1914 steam yachts became a stop gap navy, filling in for neglected investment in small craft. The USN followed suit in 1917. Their wonderful interiors were ripped out, antiquated guns and sometimes depth charges fitted, and their crews signed into the naval reserves. Around the coasts of the Britain and France, in the Mediterranean and the USA, Canada, these former luxurious playthings now attacked land positions and fought surface warships and U-boats. They interdicted blockade runners, escorted convoys, were used as depot ships, served as hospitals afloat and undertook a host of other functions. In all, some 300 yachts fought at sea. This new book, lavishly illustrated with photographs and plans of pre-war and wartime steam yachts from a world now lost to view, tells their story and the stories of the men who served in them. It examines their peacetime origins and development, describes their owners and designers, and considers their naval deployment, the conditions under which the crews lived and worked, the many and varied duties assigned to the yachts, and their successes and failures together with the losses sustained. In just a couple of generations these beautiful craft progressed from status symbols to instruments of war to complete extinction; Steam Yachts at War tells this compelling story.

Author : Richard V. Simpson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0738505080

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Building the Mosquito Fleet by Richard V. Simpson Pdf

In 1877, the U.S. Navy purchased the fast steam yacht Stiletto from the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island, for "automobile" torpedo experiments in Narragansett Bay. The submarine service was in its infancy, and interest in the self-propelled torpedo as an undersea weapon flourished. Herreshoff's fast, steam-powered boats were the first of the delivery platforms accepted by the U.S. Navy Department for experiments at the Newport Naval Torpedo Station and service during the Spanish-American War. Dating from the Civil War, the torpedo station on Goat Island in Newport Harbor was the first torpedo armory in the United States, specializing in research, development, and manufacture. Building the Mosquito Fleet: The U.S. Navy's First Torpedo Boats traces the important and often dramatic history of the involvement between the U.S. Navy and the Herreshoff brothers' marine yards over a period of more than thirty years. It is a story of enterprise, naval development, and marine manufacturing during a time of experimentation and evolution. Included are dramatic stories of the men who built and tested these dangerous new vessels. This fascinating volume preserves under one cover a concise history of the torpedo boats built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. It describes design and construction innovations introduced by the Herreshoffs and traces the events that led the major navies of the world to take notice of the Herreshoffs' work.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000020213206

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Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Literature
ISBN : UCAL:B2924104

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Scribners Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Josiah Gilbert Holland,Richard Watson Gilder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106019921417

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Scribner's Monthly by Josiah Gilbert Holland,Richard Watson Gilder Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : CHI:105231275

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Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael L. Hadley,Robert Neil Huebert,F. W. Crickard
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0773515062

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Nation's Navy by Michael L. Hadley,Robert Neil Huebert,F. W. Crickard Pdf

Bounded by three great oceans, Canada stands as a maritime nation with rich seafaring traditions. Born of both national and British imperial interests in 1910 and maturing in two world wars, its navy is a vital national institution that continues to evolve in response to new and complex challenges. A Nation's Navy explores the decisive formative forces of the navy's history and illuminates the characteristically Canadian elements and values that have defined it.

Author : William Tufts Brigham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Central America
ISBN : UOM:39015008720859

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Guatemala by William Tufts Brigham Pdf

Author : William Agnew Paton
Publisher : New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Antilles, Lesser
ISBN : WISC:89088307947

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Down the Islands by William Agnew Paton Pdf

Author : William Tufts Brigham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Central America
ISBN : UCAL:$B23410

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Guatemala: the Land of the Quetzal by William Tufts Brigham Pdf

Author : Bobette Gugliotta
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813146324

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Pigboat 39 by Bobette Gugliotta Pdf

A historic account of the US Navy’s cramped, outdated submarine that was forced to remain in service during World War II. Constructed in 1923, the American submarine S39 was practically an antique when the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor in 1941. With defective torpedoes, a semi-trained crew, and a primitive ventilation system (hence the nickname), she nevertheless sank two enemy vessels and eluded pursuit to fight again in the Solomons. This is the little-known story of how an unprepared navy fought with what it had until the tide could be turned. Bobette Gugliotta was one of the S-39 wives. With the technical assistance of her husband, Guy, an officer who served on three of the S-class boats during the war, she presents an accurate and absorbing account of submarine operations and warfare. No less valuable is her candid and sympathetic portrayal of the men and women whose lives were caught up in the voyage of the S-39. Praise for Pigboat 39 “There are very few accounts of the exploits of these submarines. This book is a gem; essential for World War II and naval history collections.” —Library Journal “The account of S39’s 2,000-mile flight cackles with action.” —Navy Times “Captures in vivid style the valiant spirit of the men who held the line in the face of disaster. But equally important, by depicting the roles played by the wives of the crew members, Gugliotta has helped to fill a gap that has largely been ignored by naval historians.” —U.S. Naval Proceedings “A remarkable evocation.” —Louisville Courier-Journal