Download or read book The First Cruise of the United States Frigate Essex written by George Henry Preble and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 32 gun Frigate Essex written by Portia A. Takakjian and published by Anova Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the successful completion of the War of Independence, the American navy was disbanded, and it was not until the late 1790s that a regular naval force was reconstituted. Provoked by the need to protect American merchant shipping from the belligerent European nations and the piratical Barbary powers, Congress decided on a programme of frigate building, which included the 32-gun frigate Essex. Designed by William Hackett, Essex was a typical medium frigate of her time. Working from both US and British sources, the author has reconstructed many previously undetermined details of the ship and in passing has rehabilitated the reputation of the designer as one who was responsible for one of the best balanced of that generation's frigates.
Download or read book The First Cruise of the United States Frigate Essex with a Short Account of Her Origin and Subsequent Career From Essex Institute Historical Collections Vol 10 written by George Henry PREBLE and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Cruise of the United States Frigate Essex with a Short Account of Her Origin and Subsequent Career Until Captured by the British In 1814 written by George Henry Preble and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... and fruitless chase determined to go to St. Salvador to intercept it. While beating up with this intention, information was received from different Portugese vessels, of the presence of the other ships of the squadron off the port, and renewed efforts were made to join; but strong northerly winds prevailed, and after struggling against them for a week Capt. Porter decided to run to St. Catharine's for water. Having been disappointed in his attempts to fall in with the Commodore, and ascertaining that the Montague, 74, had sailed from Rio to raise the blockade of the vessels at St. Salvador, Capt. Porter came to the happy decision to act for himself and push the Essex around Cape Horn, and by making a dash among the English whalers in the Pacific to live upon the enemy. It was a bold stroke, but the possession of the specie taken from the Nocton, and the knowledge that every whaler was well found in stores and provisions rendered it feasible. The season was late for doubling the Horn, the ship was deficient in provisions and naval stores, but as Capt. Porter explains in his own journal his course lay between the attempt, a capture or blockade, and starvation. The Essex left St. Catharine's on the 26th of January, 1813, and after a most tempestuous passage around Cape Horn fell in with the pleasant south-west breeze of the Pacific Ocean on the 5th of March, and was the first United States ship of war to spread her sails in that sea. At meridian of that day her people got a distant view of the Andes. The Essex was now fairly in the Pacific, though she had not fallen in with an enemy for two months. There was but one chart of the ocean on the ship and that was small and imperfect, the provisions were getting short and the vessel much in want...
Download or read book American Light and Medium Frigates 1794 1836 written by Mark Lardas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Original Six' frigates were commissioned by the new-born US Navy at a staggering cost of nearly $700,000. Designed to be light and fast, these warships enabled America to project its power across the globe. Among the ships Mark Lardas examines is USS Constellation: the first ship to be commissioned by the United States Navy. Alongside stirring accounts of engagements during the Barbary Wars, the author explores the design and development of these frigates, explaining the shortcomings that led to their replacement by larger, heavier 44-gun models by 1800. Packed with contemporary illustrations of US frigates and their British and French rivals, this book follows the escalation of the naval 'arms race' during the 18th century.
Download or read book Narrative of the Cruise of the Essex written by Henry Howe and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hunting the Essex written by Midshipman Allen Gardiner and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1813 the British frigate Phoebe set out on a secret mission that would involve sailing halfway around the world to attack American settlements in the Pacific Northwest. The United States, frustrated at the treatment of its shipping by the combatants in the Napoleonic Wars, had finally opened hostilities against the British in the previous June. From the American perspective the War of 1812 began with disasters in its invasion of Canada, but against all expectations the infant US Navy had scored significant victories at sea. The most strategically significant of these was the campaign by the frigate USS Essex, which had almost annihilated the lucrative British whaling trade in the south Pacific. Therefore, Phoebe was diverted to hunt down and destroy this highly successful commerce-raider. After an epic search, Phoebe tracked her prey to neutral Valparaiso where the American frigate was blockaded and,in a very bloody battle, eventually captured. The American captain, David Porter, published a self-serving account of his actions which ever since has mired the battle in controversy, so this British naval eyewitness account is an important counter-balance. It is one of the lesser-known campaigns of a war which is currently celebrating its bicentenary, but its inherent drama inspired the plot of Patrick O'Brian's novel The Far Side of the World, although in its movie adaptation Master & Commander the American frigate is transformed into a French privateer.
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Download or read book Journal Kept on Board the United States Frigate Constitution 1812 written by Amos A. Evans and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean in the United States Frigate Essex written by David Porter and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dimensions of the U S S Frigate Essex as Noted by the Superintendent and Constructor written by Enos Briggs and published by . This book was released on 1799 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of a Cruise of the U S Frigate Essex 1812 14 written by D. Porter and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Frigates written by Henry Gruppe and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1979 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profusely illustrated text discusses the Constitution, the Essex, and other frigates used as warships by the U.S. Navy during the 19th century, the men who sailed them, and the battles in which they participated.
Download or read book The Tall Frigates written by Frank Robert Donovan and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the tall frigates spans one of the most exciting eras of American history. As the first vessels of the United States Navy, these brave sailing ships defended the interests of the new nation on waters around the world. In dramatic duels against the French, the English, the North African corsairs, such men of war as The Constitution, Constellation, Essex, Philadelphia, United States, President and Congress, under the command of intrepid skippers like Truxton, Preble, Talbot, Dale, Lawrence, Bainbridge, Decatur, Barron, Rogers, Hull and Porter, challenged the great sea powers and showed that the rights of the infant country could not be abused.
Download or read book A Frigate s Namesake written by Alice Balch Abbot and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Log of the Frigate ESSEX written by Frederic Baury and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Log of the United States naval frigate ESSEX kept in narrative format by sailor Frederic Baury from 1809-1811 while cruising from Norfolk, Virginia to Plymouth, England with stops made at Charleston, South Carolina and the Tybee Islands, Georgia. harbour logs kept at Norfolk and Annapolis. Entries record sailing conditions and course, winds, weather, and life aboard the ship. The frigate was commanded by John Smith.
Download or read book Naval Documents Related to the Quasi war Between the United States and France From Aug 1799 to Dec 1799 written by United States. Office of Naval Records and Library and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
