An edition of Uncommon warriors
(2012)
Uncommon warriors
two centuries of the of the most unusual American naval vessels
by Ken W. Sayers
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Uncommon warriors: two centuries of the of the most unusual American naval vessels
2012, Naval Institute Press
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Two momentous days in the Pacific: Antares (AG 10)
The leader of the "ghost fleet": Utah (AG 16)
"Chesapeake raider": Wyoming (AG 17)
Miscellaneous auxiliaries fit for a president
and a king: Sequoia (AG 23) and Potomac (AG 25)
Three "mysterious" queen ships: Anacapa (AG 49), Big Horn (IX 207), and Irene Forsyte (IX 93)
Terrier tester: Mississippi (AG 128)
Cinema celebrity: Hewell (AG 145)
Steaming demon: Richard E Kraus (AG 151)
The checker of sins: Compass Island (AG 153)
Three lives of a "mariner": Observation Island (AG 154)
Satellite communicator: Kingsport (T-AG 164)
The navy's secret snooper ships: Belmont (AG 167), Georgetown (AG 165), Jamestown (AG 166), Liberty (AG 168), Lt. James R. Robinson (T-AG 170), Oxford (AG 159), Pvt. Jose F. Valdez (T-AG 169), and Sgt. Joseph E. Muller (T-AG 171)
Sub snatcher: Glomar Explorer (AG 193)
Versatile specialist: Vanguard (T-AG 194)
ABCDs to IX: Alton (IX 5) and Despatch (ix 2)
One U.S. battleship sunk by another: Coast Battleship no. 4 (IX 6)
Farragut's fighting flagship: Hartford (IX 13)
Crane ship no. 1: Kearsarge (IX 16)
The last of her kind: Constellation (IX 20)
Old Ironsides: Constitution (IX 21)
Naval academy "brig" from the Spanish Navy: Reina Mercedes (IX 25)
A half century of national service: Wheeling (IX 28)
The Navy's oldest steel-hulled warship afloat: Olympia (IX 40)
International racing champion purchased for one dollar: America (ix 41)
Sidewheel freshwater flattops: Wolverine (IX 64) and Sable (IX 81)
"CIC University": Moosehead (IX 98)
From yacht to pioneering warship and back again: Sea Cloud (IX 99)
German cruiser meets the atomic bomb: Prinz Eugen (IX 300)
The ship with the surreal silhouette: Atlanta (ix 304)
Mother ship to deep divers: Elk River (IX 501)
The Navy's smallest "aircraft carrier": Baylander (IX 514)
And now for something different: Sea Flyer (IX 515)
Now you see it, now you don't: Sea Shadow (IX 529)
One fast cat: joint venture (IX 532)
Directory of "miscellaneous" vessels in the U.S. fleet
Appendix A: List of miscellaneous auxiliary vessels
Appendix B: List of unclassified miscellaneous vessels
Appendix C: List of miscellaneous related vessels.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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