Sea Captains: San Francisco 1800s
Charles A. Gore
June 4, 1907, Los Angeles Herald, Los Angeles, California
CRUISER MILWAUKEE GOES ON TRIAL TRIP
By Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 3. The new United States cruiser Milwaukee sailed today for Santa Barbara channel, where her final trials will be made. Before being accepted by the government the vessel must maintain a speed of twenty-two knots an hour for four hours and develop within 80 percent of forced draught power and maintain a speed of twenty knots.
Before returning to this port the guns of the Milwaukee also will be tented.
The vessel is commanded by Captain Charles A. Gore. The board of Inspection consists of Capt. Clover, Capt. Sutherland, Commander Reeves, Commander Marsh, Naval Constructor Stocker and Lieutenant Commander Eberle.
August 10, 1909, Los Angeles Herald, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Vessel Caught in Ice Ships New Propellers
Repairs Under Way on Steamer Puritan
Victoria, B.C., August 9 -- The steamer Puritan is at Esquimault to make extensive repairs in consequence of damage sustained in the Ice near Cape Nome. Captain Gore said the vessel was eleven days in the ice, and broke all blades from the propeller In getting tree. From two to three knots an hour was made by the use of square sails and the stumps of the screw blades.
A new seven-ton propeller was shipped with difficulty by the crew from a scow in the open roadstead at Cape Nome after the stern had been tilted up by tlie unloading of two-thirds of the cargo from the afterholds.
The men who worked on staging hung over the stern fastened by life lines were washed from the staging several times while engaged on the repairs, which occupied three days. 
Dover Military History.
Read by Kaiser Wilhelm, both Roosevelts, and other leaders, this classic text on the history and tactics of naval warfare had a profound effect on the imperial policies of all major powers. The author argues that despite great changes and scientific advances in weaponry, certain military principles remain constant. Includes 4 maps, 24 battle plans.
U. S. Navy
Many people contributed to the Mahan Centennial Conference which was
held at the Naval War College, 30 April and 1 May 1990. Professor George
Baer was the first to suggest such a conference, chairing a session on the
subject at the American Historical Association's annual meeting in San
Francisco in December 1988. In parallel, Dr. William Dudley suggested that
the U.S. Navy should officially mark the occasion with a scholarly gathering
and promoted the idea of a joint enterprise by the Naval Historical Center
and the Naval War College.
Julian S. Corbett.
Considered a brilliant exposition which established British naval historian Julian Corbett (1854–1922) as one of the great maritime strategists. Corbett placed naval warfare within the larger framework of human conflict, proposing that the key to maritime dominance lies in effective use of sea lines for communications and in denying that use to the enemy. His concept regarded naval strategy not as an end in itself but as a means to an end, with that end defined by national strategy.
Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern World
Peter Padfield.
London's Sunday Times considers Padfield as "a historian of the highest order. A work of stunning originality."
In the great wars of modern history maritime powers have always prevailed over land-based empires, whether Habsburg, Napoleonic, Nazi or Soviet. This extraordinary book charts the growth of these powers in various western countries, while also revealing the way in which supremacy at sea freed thought and society itself. As noted historian Peter Padfield demonstrates, those nations attaining mastery at sea have been distinguished by liberty, flexibility and enterprise, a historical lesson of burning relevance today. Maritime Supremacy details the struggles of the first supreme maritime powers of the modern age, the Dutch and the British, and ends with the emergence of the ultimate successor, the United States of America. Changes in society, politics, trade--including the slave trade -- and in naval capability are interwoven with descriptions of the great sea battles by which world power was won. Bringing the characters vividly to life and immersing the reader in the drama of events, Padfield challenges our view of the evolution of today's world.
McDougall chronicles the cultural, racial, economic and military confrontations of the British, Spaniards, Hawaiians and Chinese in the North Pacific since the 16th century. He pays special attention to the intertwined histories of the Americans, Russians and Japanese who made the North Pacific an arena for power politics. A history professor at the University of Pennsylvania (and author of the Pulitzer-winning The Heavens and the Earth ), McDougall is a first-rate scholar and a marvelous writer. Here he periodically interrupts his headlong narrative to present the minutes of seminars attended by ghosts of the North Pacific past: Father Junipero Serra, a Spanish missionary; Kaahumanu, consort of Hawaiian King Kamehameha; William Seward, Lincoln's secretary of state; Count Sergey Witte, prime minister to Russia's Nicholas II; and Saito Hirosi, pre-Pearl Harbor Japanese ambassador to Washington. (Excerpted from Publishers Weekly.)
Three Centuries of Seafaring: The Maritime Art of Paul Hee
Rick Carroll, Marcie Carroll (Author, Editors)
Great moments in seafaring history as depicted by internationally known maritime artist Paul Hee are collected in a handsome new art book, Three Centuries of Seafaring: The Maritime Art of Paul Hee. Old salts and armchair sailors alike--anyone who loves the sea and ships--will delight in this glossy art book, which features more than 150 color images of Mr. Hee's artful works in signature painstaking detail. Scenes range from battles at sea and famous shipwrecks to yacht races and peaceful harbors. Hee, master of past masters, documents not only moments in maritime history but also the artistic styles of three centuries of painters whose work depicts American and British ships of their day, from topsail schooners to the White Squadron. A significant portion of book sales benefit the North Carolina Maritime Museum. The book is available in two formats: hardbound with glossy dust jacket ($49.95); and a signed, numbered slip-cased hardcover keepsake, commemorating the 300th anniversary of the 1709 founding of Beaufort, NC, ($79.95), home of Mr. Hee and of the museum.
Archaeology of East Asian Shipbuilding
Jun Kimura
“The most comprehensive technical inventory of East Asian shipbuilding and shipwrecks available to date, this detailed analysis refines our understanding of East Asia ship construction.”—Hans Konrad Van Tilburg, author of Chinese Junks on the Pacific: Views from a Different Deck
Robert Stanley Bates, George Marsh (Editor), John F. Whiteley (Forward) (Batek Marine Publishing, 2011; Nominated in 2012 for a Pulitzer Prize)
This book depicts important aspects of our maritime history as a result of original research done by the author, Commodore Bates, the holder of an unlimited master's license who has enjoyed a distinguished fifty-year career in both the Coast Guard and the American Merchant Marine.
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The Sea Chart
The Illustrated History of Nautical Maps and Navigational Charts
John Blake
The sea chart was one of the key tools by which ships of trade, transport and conquest navigated their course across the oceans. Herein is a history and development of the chart and the related nautical map, in both scientific and aesthetic terms, as a means of safe and accurate seaborne navigation. 150 color illustrations including the earliest charts of the Mediterranean made by 13th-century Italian merchant adventurers, as well as 18th-century charts that became strategic naval and commercial requirements and led to Cook's voyages in the Pacific, the search for the Northwest Passage, and races to the Arctic and Antarctic.
Get Your Captain's License. Fifth Edition 
Charlie Wing
Considered the quickest, easiest, and least expensive way to prepare for the U.S. Coast Guard captain's ratings exams required for anyone who takes paying passengers on a boat, and useful for serious boaters who want to save money on insurance. 350 pages of seamanship and navigation tutorials. More than 1,500 questions and answers from the Coast Guard exams. Includes an interactive CD-ROM with all 14,000 questions and answers in the USCG database, so you can take an unlimited number of practice exams
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