A Civil War Gunboat in Pacific Waters: Life on Board USS Saginaw (New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology)

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“An epic shipwreck tale. Sacrifice and heroism are recounted in a comprehensive study of a ship that embodied The us’s role in the nineteenth-century Pacific as Yankee enterprise helped open Asia to trade. Well-researched, well-written, this book also takes readers for the first time intoSaginaw‘s long-lost grave beneath the sea.”–James P. Delgado, president, The Institute of Nautical Archaeology

 

“An impressive study of a naval vessel from construction to destruction.”–William Still Jr., writer of Crisis at Sea

 

The USS Saginaw used to be a Civil War gunboat that served in Pacific and Asian waters between 1860 and 1870. All the way through this decade, the crew witnessed the trade disruptions of the Opium Wars, the Taiping Rise up, the transportation of Confederate sailors to Central The us, the French intervention in Mexico, and the growing presence of American naval forces in Hawaii.


In 1870, the ship sank at one of the most world’s most remote coral reefs; her crew used to be rescued sixty-eight days later after a dramatic open-boat voyage. More than 130 years later, Hans Van Tilburg led the team that came upon and recorded the Saginaw’s remains near the Kure Atoll reef.


Van Tilburg’s narrative provides fresh insights and a vivid retelling of a classic naval shipwreck. He provides a captivating viewpoint at the watershed events in history that reshaped the Pacific All the way through these years. And the tale of archaeological search and discovery reveals that adventure is still to be found at the high seas.

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