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Dead Men Tell No Tales
Dead men tell no tales, or so the pirate maxim goes. But when facing execution in 1831 for mutiny and murder, the previously enigmatic pirate Charles Gibbs recounted the infamous …
The Abandoned Ocean
THE ABANDONED OCEAN offers an in-depth appraisal of United States maritime policy from the establishment of a merchant marine immediately after the Revolutionary War through …
Ironclads and Big Guns of the Confederacy
Loaded with previously unavailable information about the Confederate Navy's effort to supply its fledgling forces, the wartime diaries and letters of John M. Brooke (1826-1906) …
Forty-niners 'Round the Horn
This is an account of the thrilling, and at times harrowing, maritime adventures of fortune hunters who sailed from the east coast of America around Cape Horn to California during …
Guardian of Savannah
The remarkable story of how an earthen fort defense shielded a Southern city from the ironclad monitors of the U.S. NavyBuilt out of sand and mud, Fort McAllister was designed to …
The Royal Navy in European Waters During the American Revolutionary War
During the American Revolutionary War, Great Britain's Royal Navy faced foes that included, in addition to American forces, the navies of France, Spain and the Netherlands. In this …
Captain James Carlin
Captain James Carlin is a biography of a shadowy nineteenth-century British Confederate, James Carlin (1833–1921), who was among the most successful captains running the U.S. …
Playships of the World
This book describes the early exploits around the globe of a young naval officer who would become a World War II hero.After touring the U. S. S. Pittsburgh in 1926, James Thurber …
Captains Contentious
This book offers original insights into a quirky quintet of naval heroes of the American Revolution. In ""Captains Contentious"" accomplished maritime historian Louis Arthur Norton …
A Sea of Misadventures
A Sea of Misadventures examines more than one hundred documented shipwreck narratives from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century as a means to understanding gender, status, and …
Confederate Shipbuilding
This work covers the real grounds for the Confederacy's failure to build a successful navy. The South's major problems with shipbuilding concerned facilities, materials, and …
Patroons and Periaguas
Patroons and Periaguas explores the intricately interwoven and colorful creole maritime legacy of Native Americans, Africans, enslaved and free African Americans, and Europeans who …