Author: United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ordnance
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Category : Gunnery
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Instructions in Relation to the Preparation of Vessels of War for Battle
Author: United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ordnance
Publisher:
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Category : Gunnery
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gunnery
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy
Author: United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ordnance
Publisher:
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Category : Gunnery
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gunnery
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Ordnance Instructions for the Navy
Author: United States. Navy Department
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A Course of Instruction in the Elements of the Art and Science of War
Author: Junius Brutus Wheeler
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
USS Constellation on the Dismal Coast
Author: C. Herbert Gilliland
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 161117290X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
This seaman’s journal recounts a twenty-month voyage from Boston to the African coast to intercept slave-trading vessels as America approach the Civil War. Today the twenty-gun sloop USS Constellation is a floating museum in Baltimore Harbor; in 1859 it was an emblem of the global power of the American sailing navy. William E. Leonard served aboard the Constellation during a crucial and eventful period, chronicling it all in this remarkable journal. Sailing from Boston, the Constellation, flagship of the US African Squadron, was charged with the interception and capture of slave-trading vessels illegally en route from Africa to the Americas. During the Constellation’s deployment, the squadron captured a record number of these ships, liberating their human cargo and holding the captains and crews for criminal prosecution. At the same time, tensions at home and in the squadron increased as the American Civil War approached and erupted in April 1861. Leonard recorded not only historic events but also fascinating details about his daily life as one of the nearly four-hundred-member crew. He saw himself as not just a diarist, but a reporter, making special efforts to seek out and record information about individual crewmen, shipboard practices, recreation and daily routine—from deck swabbing and standing watch to courts martial and dramatic performances by the Constellation Dramatic Society.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 161117290X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
This seaman’s journal recounts a twenty-month voyage from Boston to the African coast to intercept slave-trading vessels as America approach the Civil War. Today the twenty-gun sloop USS Constellation is a floating museum in Baltimore Harbor; in 1859 it was an emblem of the global power of the American sailing navy. William E. Leonard served aboard the Constellation during a crucial and eventful period, chronicling it all in this remarkable journal. Sailing from Boston, the Constellation, flagship of the US African Squadron, was charged with the interception and capture of slave-trading vessels illegally en route from Africa to the Americas. During the Constellation’s deployment, the squadron captured a record number of these ships, liberating their human cargo and holding the captains and crews for criminal prosecution. At the same time, tensions at home and in the squadron increased as the American Civil War approached and erupted in April 1861. Leonard recorded not only historic events but also fascinating details about his daily life as one of the nearly four-hundred-member crew. He saw himself as not just a diarist, but a reporter, making special efforts to seek out and record information about individual crewmen, shipboard practices, recreation and daily routine—from deck swabbing and standing watch to courts martial and dramatic performances by the Constellation Dramatic Society.
Statistical and Chronological History of the United States Navy, 1775-1907
Author: Robert Wilden Neeser
Publisher: New York : MacMillan
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher: New York : MacMillan
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882
Author: George Peabody Library
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Catalogue of the Astor Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Book Description
Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882
Author: Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
A Selected List of Works in the Library Relating to Nautical and Naval Art and Science, Navigation, and Seamanship, Shipbuilding, Etc
Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Naval architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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