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Sea History No 99 Winter 2001-02 Pull Together The Queenstown Naval Command
Sea History Pull Together The Queenstown Naval Command No 99 Winter 2001-02
CONTENTS
7 "Pull-Together": The Queenstown Naval Command of World War I, by William LangenbergThe leadership of two extraordinary men, one British, the other American, created a unique naval force to meet the German U-boat threat.
12 OCEANIC MISSION III: Heralds of the Morning: The World Trade Center Towers Stood for Dreams We Should Pursue, by Peter StanfordOur own experience showed what the Twin Towers meant to the maritime community, New York, and the nation ... and to the US role in the ocean world.
15 Melville's Seafaring Days, by Jack PutnamWhat better way to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the publication of Moby-Dick than with a look at Herman Melville's experiences at sea in three trades: the merchant marine, the whaling industry and the US Navy?
18 A Unique Concours d'Elegance: The Adney Collection of Native American Canoe Models, by Lyles Forbes and Jeanne Willoz-Egnor Edwin Tappan Adney traveled North America at the turn of the last century, collecting a treasure trove of knowledge from the last canoe builders; he preserved that knowledge through the building of canoe models.
23 MARINE ART: "As In a Mirror ...", by Paul GarnettArtist Paul Garnett, a native New Englander, uprooted his family to work on HMS Bounty when she was in Florida; he takes his inspiration for his marine art from that experience and from his belief that the mission of an artist is to give pleasure to the viewer.
28 "Treasures of the Manila Galleons" at the San Diego Maritime Museum, by Mark AllenThe desire for luxury goods from China among Europe's wealthiest classes drove the captains and crews of the Manila galleons across the dangerous Pacific; some of those that did not make it have offered up to archaeologists their treasures, many of which are now on display in San Diego.
30 William Falconer: From Survivor to Marine Lexicographer, by David P. H. WatsonA Scottish sailor defines the nautical and marine world of his age and creates a work of literary and scholarly distinction: An Universal Dictionary of the Marine
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