A Civil War Gunboat in Pacific Waters: Life on Board USS Saginaw

by Hans Konrad Van Tilburg

Book Overview

"An epic shipwreck tale. Sacrifice and heroism are recounted in a comprehensive study of a ship that embodied America's role in the nineteenth-century Pacific as Yankee enterprise helped open Asia to trade. Well-researched, well-written, this book also takes readers for the first time intoSaginaw's long-lost grave beneath the sea."--James P. Delgado, president, The Institute of Nautical Archaeology

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813080177
• ISBN13: 9780813080178
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"