Yangtze Patrol

Author : Kemp Tolley
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612511993

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Yangtze Patrol by Kemp Tolley Pdf

The U.S. Navy's patrol of the Yangtze River began in 1854 when the USS Susquehanna was sent to China to safeguard increasing American commerce in the region. As Kemp Tolley explains in this entertaining history of the patrol in which he was to later serve, the presence of gunboats along the river greatly benefited the integrity of the shoreline factories. Tolley was a young naval officer in the 1930s when assigned gunboat duty, first in the Mindanao, then in the Tutuila, and finally the Wake in August 1941. His colorful description of life as a ""river rat"" is filled with anecdotes about the resourceful and high-spirited sailors who manned the old riverboats in that distant land. In the process of telling their story he covers a century of Chinese history, replete with warlords and mandarins, bandits and kidnappers, missionaries and mercenaries, riots and revolution. He presents a knowledgeable summary of the political situation in China up to World War II, including the bombing of the Panay, the siege of Shanghai, and the Nanking incident. Far more than a routine account of naval operations on the great Yangtze, this book is an unforgettable reading experience that has attracted readers since 1971 when it was first published in hardcover.

Author : Kemp Tolley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:641467041

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Yangtze Patrol by Kemp Tolley Pdf

Author : U. S. Navy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1481947540

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Yangtze River Patrol and Other US Navy Asiatic Fleet Activities in China 1920-1942 by U. S. Navy Pdf

Yangtze River Patrol and Other US Navy Asiatic Fleet Activities in China, 1920-1942, as Described in the Annual Reports of the Navy Department.A very nice historic collection.

Author : Edward H. Heinemann,Rosario Rausa
Publisher : Naval Inst Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Aeronautical engineers
ISBN : 0870217976

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Ed Heinemann, Combat Aircraft Designer by Edward H. Heinemann,Rosario Rausa Pdf

Author : Bernard D. Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015005535417

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Gunboats and Marines by Bernard D. Cole Pdf

"The 1920s were years of turmoil in China, as revolution and civil war spread throughout the country. The many Americans then in China -- primarily missionaries, businessmen, and diplomats -- were caught in this upheaval. Their safety often depended on the armed protection of the sailors and marines of the United States Asiatic Fleet. In the middle 1920s, however, this fleet consisted of one cruiser, two divisions of submarines, about twenty destroyers, a dozen gunboats, and assigned Marine Corps detachments. This book tells the dramatic story of the role the United States Navy played during this tumultuous period of Chinese history"--Jacket.

Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849084093

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Yangtze River Gunboats 1900–49 by Angus Konstam Pdf

From the end of the 19th century through the first half of the 20th, most Western powers maintained a naval presence in China. These gunboats protected traders and missionaries, safeguarded national interests, and patrolled Chinese rivers in search of pirates. It was a wild, lawless time in China as ruthless warlords fought numerous small wars to increase their power and influence. This book covers the gunboats of all the major nations that stationed naval forces in China, including America, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Japan, and looks at such famous incidents as the Japanese bombing of the USS Patay and the dramatic escape of the HMS Amethyst from Communist forces in 1947, which marked the end of the gunboat era.

Author : Glenn F. Howell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786480913

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Gunboat on the Yangtze by Glenn F. Howell Pdf

Captain Glenn F. Howell kept a detailed account of his activities in China for 62 years. His journals now make up 202 leather-bound volumes--one of the largest sources in existence, perhaps the largest, of servicemen's observations of service in China during that country's struggle to oust one power and come to grips with a new one between World War I and II. This work presents Howell's diary from June 6, 1920, to September 23, 1921, during which time he commanded the naval gunboat USS Palos on the Yangtze River. First comes a biography of Howell, an overview of Chinese history from 1800 to 1920, and a history of the United States military involvement in China during those years. Howell's time as commander of the USS Palos is divided into three sections. Preceding each, the editor comments on the nature of the upcoming diary entries. Howell covers a range of topics, including the Chinese people, various important locales (e.g., the Three Gorges), making official visits, (his first as a captain), officer-enlisted man relations, opium, the steam navy, people who influenced him (S. Cornell Plant and Captain Joseph Miclo, skipper of the Meitan), missionaries and other foreigners in China (including U.S. military retirees), and "trackers" (China's human beasts of burden.)

Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782008422

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Yangtze River Gunboats 1900–49 by Angus Konstam Pdf

From the end of the 19th century through the first half of the 20th, most Western powers maintained a naval presence in China. These gunboats protected traders and missionaries, safeguarded national interests, and patrolled Chinese rivers in search of pirates. It was a wild, lawless time in China as ruthless warlords fought numerous small wars to increase their power and influence. This book covers the gunboats of all the major nations that stationed naval forces in China, including America, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Japan, and looks at such famous incidents as the Japanese bombing of the USS Patay and the dramatic escape of the HMS Amethyst from Communist forces in 1947, which marked the end of the gunboat era.

Author : Brian Lane Herder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472844620

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US Navy Gunboats 1885–1945 by Brian Lane Herder Pdf

A study of the history of the US Navy's gunboats and their role in building a worldwide American naval presence abroad and in combat, from the Yangtze era through to World War II. For more than half a century, American gunboats were the ships often responsible for policing small crises and provided deterrence and fast-response capabilities around the world – showing the flag, landing armed parties, patrolling river and littoral areas, and protecting ex-pats. They were often the United States' most-visible and constant military presence in far-flung foreign lands, and were most closely associated with the Far East, particularly the Philippines and China. Most famous, of course, was the multinational Yangtze Patrol. Many US gunboats were built, purchased or reassembled overseas where they usually served out their entire careers, never coming within 7,000 miles of the national homeland which they served. Numerous gunboats were captured from the Spanish during the 1898 war, many being raised from shallow graves, refurbished, and commissioned into USN service. The classic haunt of US gunboats was the Asiatic Station of China and the Philippines. Gunboat service overseas was typically exotic and the sailors' lives were often exciting and unpredictable. The major operational theatres associated with the US gunboats were the pre-1898 cruises and patrols of the earliest steel gunboats, the Spanish-American War of 1898 (both the Philippines and the Caribbean), the guerilla wars of the early 20th century Philippines and Latin America, the Asiatic Fleet and Yangtze Patrol of the 1890s–1930s, and finally World War II, which largely entailed operations in China, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Alaska, and on convoy routes. It was Japan's sudden 1941–1942 'Centrifugal Offensive' that effectively spelled the beginning of the end not just of most American gunboats, but also the century-old world order in Asia that had provided US gunboats with their primary mission.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1786 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015025950802

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119525447

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Navy Department Appropriation Bill, 1923 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations Pdf

Author : Ken W. Sayers
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476641416

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U.S. Navy Patrol Vessels by Ken W. Sayers Pdf

During the past century, U.S. Navy patrol vessels have operated everywhere larger warships have--as well as in places where the big boats could not operate. These bantam warriors have performed in a variety of roles, from antisubmarine warfare to convoy escort and offensive operations against enemy forces afloat and ashore. Patrol vessels battled German units in the Mediterranean, fought insurgents along rivers and canals in China and Vietnam and protected U.S. ships and facilities in the Persian Gulf. Covering more than 1000 of the Navy's small combatants, this comprehensive survey provides all-time rosters, histories, specifications and illustrations of patrol vessels from before World War I to the present. World War II PT boats and submarine chasers and Vietnam War swift boats are covered, along with less well known ships such as Eagle boats, patrol yachts, hydrofoil gunboats and control escorts. A detailed accounting of patrol vessel exports, transfers and shipbuilders is included.

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2144 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:35112102287549

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Report by United States. Congress. House Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Disposition of Executive Papers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Executive departments
ISBN : PURD:32754082006168

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Disposition of Records in the Department of the Navy by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Disposition of Executive Papers Pdf

Author : Malcolm H. Murfett
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612513218

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Hostage on the Yangtze by Malcolm H. Murfett Pdf

In 1949, as the Chinese Civil War was about to enter its final, explosive stage, the small British frigate HMS Amethyst was sent on a dangerous mission up the Yangtze River to protect British citizens in Nanking. En route it was attacked by the Chinese Communists and held hostage on the river for several months before the crew managed to make a daring escape. The Amethyst captured news headlines around the world and became an unlikely symbol of the cold war in Asia. This dramatic episode, hailed in the West as a triumph of the human spirit but bitterly condemned by the Chinese Communists, was to prejudice Anglo-Chinese relations for years to come. Using sources not previously available, Malcolm Murfett has written a book that is much more than an account of a single incident. It provides a sweeping survey of British naval power in China, from its faltering and inept beginnings in the late 1630s right up to the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949. In explaining the importance of the Amethyst episode in the history of Anglo-Chinese naval relations, Murfett suggests that it was the final poignant break with the past. Readers will find Hostage on the Yangtze to be a fascinating tale of high adventure, imperialistic oppression, diplomatic shortcomings, and political repercussions¬—a mixture that culminates in one of the most dramatic and memorable crises of the post-war world.