The United States Mosquito Fleet
Author | : Bob Ferrell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Torpedo-boats |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Bob Ferrell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Torpedo-boats |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard V. Simpson |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738505084 |
In 1877, the U.S. Navy purchased the fast steam yacht Stiletto from the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island, for "automobile" torpedo experiments in Narragansett Bay. The submarine service was in its infancy, and interest in the self-propelled torpedo as an undersea weapon flourished. Herreshoff's fast, steam-powered boats were the first of the delivery platforms accepted by the U.S. Navy Department for experiments at the Newport Naval Torpedo Station and service during the Spanish-American War. Dating from the Civil War, the torpedo station on Goat Island in Newport Harbor was the first torpedo armory in the United States, specializing in research, development, and manufacture. Building the Mosquito Fleet: The U.S. Navy's First Torpedo Boats traces the important and often dramatic history of the involvement between the U.S. Navy and the Herreshoff brothers' marine yards over a period of more than thirty years. It is a story of enterprise, naval development, and marine manufacturing during a time of experimentation and evolution. Included are dramatic stories of the men who built and tested these dangerous new vessels. This fascinating volume preserves under one cover a concise history of the torpedo boats built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. It describes design and construction innovations introduced by the Herreshoffs and traces the events that led the major navies of the world to take notice of the Herreshoffs' work.
Author | : Jean Cammon Findlay |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738556079 |
Before the advent of roads in western Washington, steamboats of the Mosquito Fleet swarmed all over Puget Sound. Sidewheelers, stern-wheelers, and propeller-driven, they ranged from the tiny 40-foot Marie to the huge 282-foot Yosemite, and from the famous Flyer to the unknown Leota. Floating stores like the Vaughn and shrimpers like the Violet sailed the same waters as the elegant Great Lakes lady, the Chippewa, and the homely Willie. A few, like the Bob Irving and Blue Star, died spectacularly or, like Major Tompkins, shipwrecked after a short time, while others began new lives as tugboats or auto ferries; some even survive today as excursion boats like the Virginia V. From 1853 to modern car ferries in the 1920s, this volume chronicles the heyday of steamboating--a unique segment of maritime history--from modest launch to sleek liner.
Author | : Bern Keating |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : BERN KEATING |
Publisher | : BEYOND BOOKS HUB |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2021-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Immerse yourself in the thrilling maritime adventure of The Mosquito Fleet by Bern Keating. Journey alongside a ragtag fleet of small but courageous boats navigating treacherous waters, facing grand challenges, and overcoming immense obstacles. Join the Mosquito Fleet in their daring endeavors by securing a copy of The Mosquito Fleet by Bern Keating today.
Author | : Andrew Costa |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2021-12-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
The year is 1815. Following the Battle of New Orleans, American naval officer Patrick Sullivan is given his first command and ordered to search the Caribbean for a rogue warship. The stakes are high, as failure could threaten the fragile new peace treaty between Britain and the United States. Blending fiction with meticulously researched history, author Andrew Costa presents the fourth installment in his series chronicling American military history, The Sullivan Saga.
Author | : Bern Keating |
Publisher | : Alpha Edition |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-11-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789357971720 |
The Mosquito Fleet, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so that this work is never forgotten, we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Author | : Chuck Fowler |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738548142 |
Tall sailing ships came to the Pacific Northwest beginning in the mid-1700s. Met by native Salish people, the ships brought Spanish, British, Russian, and American explorers, as well as settlers and entrepreneurs to the Puget Sound region. Over the next two centuries, during boom and bust periods, these majestic vessels continued to ply the waters of Puget Sound. Today the proud tall ships operate in a training and education rather than commercial context.
Author | : J. R. McNeill |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2010-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139484508 |
This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Ecological changes made these landscapes especially suitable for the vector mosquitoes of yellow fever and malaria, and these diseases wrought systematic havoc among armies and would-be settlers. Because yellow fever confers immunity on survivors of the disease, and because malaria confers resistance, these diseases played partisan roles in the struggles for empire and revolution, attacking some populations more severely than others. In particular, yellow fever and malaria attacked newcomers to the region, which helped keep the Spanish Empire Spanish in the face of predatory rivals in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In the late eighteenth and through the nineteenth century, these diseases helped revolutions to succeed by decimating forces sent out from Europe to prevent them.
Author | : Richard V. Simpson |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2001-11-20 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1439610614 |
In 1877, the U.S. Navy purchased the fast steam yacht Stiletto from the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island, for "automobile" torpedo experiments in Narragansett Bay. The submarine service was in its infancy, and interest in the self-propelled torpedo as an undersea weapon flourished. Herreshoff's fast, steam-powered boats were the first of the delivery platforms accepted by the U.S. Navy Department for experiments at the Newport Naval Torpedo Station and service during the Spanish-American War. Dating from the Civil War, the torpedo station on Goat Island in Newport Harbor was the first torpedo armory in the United States, specializing in research, development, and manufacture. Building the Mosquito Fleet: The U.S. Navy's First Torpedo Boats traces the important and often dramatic history of the involvement between the U.S. Navy and the Herreshoff brothers' marine yards over a period of more than thirty years. It is a story of enterprise, naval development, and marine manufacturing during a time of experimentation and evolution. Included are dramatic stories of the men who built and tested these dangerous new vessels. This fascinating volume preserves under one cover a concise history of the torpedo boats built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. It describes design and construction innovations introduced by the Herreshoffs and traces the events that led the major navies of the world to take notice of the Herreshoffs' work.