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American Civil War Ships of the United States: USS Wanderer, USS Wasp, USS Emily, USS Arapahoe, USS Tahgayuta, USS Willamette, USS Watauga

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Description:Chapters: Uss Wanderer, Uss Wasp, Uss Emily, Uss Arapahoe, Uss Tahgayuta, Uss Willamette, Uss Watauga. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The first USS Wanderer was a high-speed schooner originally in service in the slave trade and seized for service with the United States Navy during the American Civil War. In U.S. Navy service from 1861 to 1865, and under outright U.S. Navy ownership from 1863 to 1865, she was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat, as a tender, and as a hospital ship. Wanderer -- a schooner-rigged yacht built in 1857 in the shipyard of Joseph Rowland at Setauket on Long Island, New York by Thomas B. Hawkinswas originally owned by Colonel John Johnson of New York City and Louisiana. After a cruise down the Atlantic coast and to the Gulf of Mexico in which she visited Charleston, South Carolina, Brunswick, Georgia, Key West, Florida, and New Orleans, Louisiana, Wanderer returned to New York City where she was soon sold to William C. Corrie of Charleston, South Carolina. Wanderers new owner had several alterations made to the ship, some of whichparticularly the installation of tanks which could hold 15,000 gallons of fresh watersuggested that Wanderer was being fitted out as a slave ship. As she was attempting to leave New York harbor, she was seized as a suspected slaver on 9 June 1858 by the steam revenue cutter USRC Harriet Lane of the United States Revenue Cutter Service, towed back to Manhattan Island, and anchored near the Battery. The next morning, United States Government officials inspected the schooner and found thatwhile her extremely fast lines and her equipment and provisions would be valuable assets should she enter the slave trade -- there was no conclusive evidence of intent to engage in slaving on the part of her o...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1435462We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with American Civil War Ships of the United States: USS Wanderer, USS Wasp, USS Emily, USS Arapahoe, USS Tahgayuta, USS Willamette, USS Watauga. To get started finding American Civil War Ships of the United States: USS Wanderer, USS Wasp, USS Emily, USS Arapahoe, USS Tahgayuta, USS Willamette, USS Watauga, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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2010
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1156895669

American Civil War Ships of the United States: USS Wanderer, USS Wasp, USS Emily, USS Arapahoe, USS Tahgayuta, USS Willamette, USS Watauga

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Description: Chapters: Uss Wanderer, Uss Wasp, Uss Emily, Uss Arapahoe, Uss Tahgayuta, Uss Willamette, Uss Watauga. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The first USS Wanderer was a high-speed schooner originally in service in the slave trade and seized for service with the United States Navy during the American Civil War. In U.S. Navy service from 1861 to 1865, and under outright U.S. Navy ownership from 1863 to 1865, she was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat, as a tender, and as a hospital ship. Wanderer -- a schooner-rigged yacht built in 1857 in the shipyard of Joseph Rowland at Setauket on Long Island, New York by Thomas B. Hawkinswas originally owned by Colonel John Johnson of New York City and Louisiana. After a cruise down the Atlantic coast and to the Gulf of Mexico in which she visited Charleston, South Carolina, Brunswick, Georgia, Key West, Florida, and New Orleans, Louisiana, Wanderer returned to New York City where she was soon sold to William C. Corrie of Charleston, South Carolina. Wanderers new owner had several alterations made to the ship, some of whichparticularly the installation of tanks which could hold 15,000 gallons of fresh watersuggested that Wanderer was being fitted out as a slave ship. As she was attempting to leave New York harbor, she was seized as a suspected slaver on 9 June 1858 by the steam revenue cutter USRC Harriet Lane of the United States Revenue Cutter Service, towed back to Manhattan Island, and anchored near the Battery. The next morning, United States Government officials inspected the schooner and found thatwhile her extremely fast lines and her equipment and provisions would be valuable assets should she enter the slave trade -- there was no conclusive evidence of intent to engage in slaving on the part of her o...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1435462We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with American Civil War Ships of the United States: USS Wanderer, USS Wasp, USS Emily, USS Arapahoe, USS Tahgayuta, USS Willamette, USS Watauga. To get started finding American Civil War Ships of the United States: USS Wanderer, USS Wasp, USS Emily, USS Arapahoe, USS Tahgayuta, USS Willamette, USS Watauga, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Release
2010
ISBN
1156895669

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