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A Civil War gunboat in Pacific waters : life on board USS Saginaw / Hans Konrad Van Tilburg ; foreword by James C. Bradford and Gene Allen Smith.

Title
A Civil War gunboat in Pacific waters : life on board USS Saginaw / Hans Konrad Van Tilburg ; foreword by James C. Bradford and Gene Allen Smith.
Author
Van Tilburg, Hans
Publication
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2010.

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Description
xiv, 361 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
Series Statement
New perspectives on maritime and nautical archaeology
Uniform Title
  • Project Muse UPCC books
  • New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology.
Subject
  • Saginaw (Steamer)
  • United States. Navy > History > 19th century
  • Seafaring life > Pacific Area > History > 19th century
  • Pacific Area > History, Naval > 19th century
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Naval history
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
A new ship for a new ocean -- Seasoning on the China station -- The Civil War on the Pacific Coast -- Hard times on coastal patrol -- Exploring Seward's icebox -- Hawai'i and the end of the archipelago -- The castaways of Ocean Island -- Afterword : legacy and shipwrecks.
ISBN
  • 9780813035161 (alk. paper)
  • 0813035163 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010020781
OCLC
613426140
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library