Uncommon Warriors: 200 Years of the Most Unusual American Naval Vessels

Ken W Sayers

ISBN 10: 1591147603 / ISBN 13: 9781591147602

Edité par Naval Institute Press, 2012

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2012 Stated First Printing with full number line. Book is in fine-as new condition and is a clean, square and tight copy. There are NO marks. Dust jacket is in fine-as new condition and has a Mylar cover for protection. Book is bubble wrapped and boxed for shipment with tracking to your USA location.

N° de réf. du vendeur 0707171008

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Uncommon Warriors: 200 Years of the Most Unusual American Naval Vessels
• Éditeur: Naval Institute Press
• Date de parution: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1591147603
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781591147602
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Naval History
  • Military History

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Synopsis

Uncommon Warriors examines all of the 500 unique miscellaneous auxiliary and unclassified miscellaneous vessels of the US Navy, providing individual histories, specifications and illustrations for more than 40 of these ships, as well as concise directory listings for another 400 vessels. The main text is supplemented with a glossary of terms and abbreviations, bibliography and three appendices, and is further reinforced with a useful detailed index. The focus of the book is on a heterogeneous and little-known grouping of Navy ships that includes both celebrated men-of-war and hundreds of very diverse ships with fascinating stories, missions, achievements and roles. Beyond the usual carriers, submarines, cruisers and destroyers, the U.S. Navy has also deployed over the years a vast flotilla of diverse vessels to serve in specialised roles and unusual missions. Uncommon Warriors spotlights these unique miscellaneous ships and boats, and provides individual histories, specifications and illustrations of many of them. Some began their careers as powerful warships with impressive pedigrees and achievements; others started out as prosaic commercial vessels but after joining the fleet, helped the Navy to win a war. This uncommon group includes iconic and historic men-of-war, such as Old Ironsides, Farragut’s Hartford and Dewey’s Olympia, as well as such novel vessels as coal-burning side-wheeler aircraft carriers, presidential yachts, Q-ships, spy ships and an amazing array of other types from battleships to tugs. In all, this book furnishes for the first time a comprehensive account of some of the most interesting, but often little-known, naval ships and boats spanning more than two centuries of U.S. history.

À propos de l?auteur

Since retiring from IBM in 2007, Ken Sayers spends his time on Long Island Sound on his boat, Cisco; reads a lot, indexes, plasy soccer, skates, kayaks and pals around with his three parrots―and he is indulged in all this by his remarkable wife of 45 years, Rose.