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Table of Contents Winter 1992 Editor’s Note Articles The American Concrete Shipbuilding Program of World War I by WILLIAM J. WILLIAMS Weather-Reporting U-boats in the Atlantic, 1944-45: The Hunt for U-248 by DAVID SYRETT The Lasting Injury: The Revenue Marine’s First Steam Cutters by ROBERT M. BROWNING, JR. The Transmission of Chinese Maritime Technology by the Arabs to Europe by VASSILIOS CHRISTIDES A Gratifying Testimonial to a Captain by CHARLES DAWSON News Book Reviews CHRISTOPHER MCKEE, A Gentlemanly and Honorable JOHN R. SIMMONS, Campaign Ribbons Profession: The Creation of the U.S. Naval Officer by Tyrone G. Martin 62 Corps, 1794-1815 F. Ross HOLLAND, Great American Lighthouses by Frederick C. Leiner 55 by John R. Herbert 63 EDWARD D. BEECHERT, Honolulu: Crossroads of the BRIAN LAVERY, Building the Wooden Walls: The Design Pacific and Construction of the 74-gun Ship Valiant by Frank Broeze 56 by John H. Harland 64 CHARLES A. BARTHOLOMEW, Mud, Muscle and REV. HENRY T. CHEEVER, The Whale and his Captors; Miracles: Marine Salvage in the United States Navy or, the Whaleman’s Adventures, and the Whale by James E. Valle 57 Biography, as Gathered on the Homeward Cruise of the JOHN MCPHEE, Looking for a Ship Commodore Preble; by Mark D. Aspinwall 58 JOHN WILSON, The Cruise of the Gipsy. The Journal of John Wilson, Surgeon on a Whaling Voyage to the GERALD E. MORRIS AND LLEWELLYN HOWLAND III, EDS., Yachting in America: A Bibliography Embracing Pacific Ocean, 1839-1843, ed. Honore Forster, the History, Practice, and Equipment of American WILLIAM DALTON, The Dalton Journal: Two Whaling Yachting and Pleasure Boating From Earliest Voyages to the South Seas, 1823-1829, ed. Niel Gunson Beginnings to Circa 1988 by Briton C. Busch 66 by Richard A. von Doenhoff 59 EDWYN GRAY, Operation Pacific: The Royal Navy's JAMES D. TRACY, ED. The Rise of Merchant Empires: War Against Japan, 1941-1945 Long-Distance Trade in the Early Modern World by Lewis Bemstein 67 by Richard W. Unger 60 MICHAEL L. HADLEY AND ROGER SARTY, Tin Pots and HERVEY GARRETT SMITH, The Arts of the Sailor: Pirate Ships: Canadian Naval Forces and German Sea Knotting, Splicing and Ropework Raiders, 1880-1918 by Richard C. Malley 61 by Gary E. Weir 68 PHILIP S. DAWSON, British Superliners of the Sixties: A Davip P.H. WATSON, The Captains Watson and the Design Appreciation of the Oriana, Canberra, and QE2 Empire Line by Peter K.H. Mispelkamp 62 by Frank O. Braynard 69 Table of Contents Spring 1992 Editor’s Note Articles An Apple and an Orange: Two Constellations at Gosport, 1853-1855 by DANA M. WEGNER Fouled Anchors? Foul Blow 94 by EVAN RANDOLPH The Caribbean Theater Transformed: Britain, France, Germany, and the U.S., 1900-1906 102 by RICHARD H. COLLIN The Crusade of Emperor Frederick II, 1220-29: The Implications of the Maritime Evidence 113 by JOHN H. PRYOR Book Reviews WILLIAM D. PHILLIPS AND CARLA RAHN PHILLIPS, The MICHAEL SIMPSON, Anglo-American Naval Relations, Worlds of Christopher Columbus 1917-1919 by Briton C. Busch 134 by F. M. McKee 138 G. FOSTER PROVOST, Columbus: An Annotated Guide to the Scholarship on His Life and Writings, 1750- JAMES A. LEWIS, The Final Campaign of the American 1988; Revolution: Rise and Fall of the Spanish Bahamas DAVID HENIGE, /n Search of Columbus: The Sources by David Syrett 139 for the First Voyage by Charles R. Schultz 135 GEORGE NAU BURRIDGE, Green Bay Workhorses: The JAMES C. BRADFORD, ED., Admirals of the New Steel Nau Tug Line Navy: Makers of the American Naval Tradition, 1880- by James P. Barry 140 1930 by Frederick S. Harrod 136 JORDAN VAUSE, U-boat Ace: The Story of Wolfgang BERNARD ET MiIRIELLE DE MAISONNEUVE, Le Liith Maidstone: miroir d’ une mémoire by Michael A. Hadley 137 by Emily Cain 141 Table of Contents Summer 1992 Editor’s Note Articles A Romance en Route: The Advertising Fiction of the Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Company by VICTORIA BREHM The Origins and Development of the T2 Tanker by THOMAS WILDENBERG Descriptions of the Shallop in Western Europe and the New World, 1587-1671 by JOSEPH M. HERBERT Autonomy, Politics, and Embargo in New London, Connecticut, 1807-1809 by GLENN S. GORDINIER The China Trade Brig John Gilpin by THOMAS HOLLYDAY Notes and Documents Assuming a First Command: Captain Caleb Franklin Carver’s Letter to Captain Lincoln Alden Colcord by PARKER BISHOP ALBEE, JR. Query and Response Book Reviews LIONEL CASSON AND J. RICHARD STEFFY, EDS. The J. R. BRUUN AND W. F. J. MORZER BRUYNS, EDS., Athlit Ram Anglo-Dutch Mercantile Marine Relations, 1700-1850 by Shelley Wachsmann 204 by Simon Ville 210 PAUL H. SILVERSTONE, Warships of the Civil War WILLIAM MORRISON ROBINSON, JR., The Confederate Navies Privateers by A. Robert Holcombe, Jr. 206 by Frederick C. Leiner 211 DONALD L. CANNEY, The Old Steam Navy. Volume 1: SiR ERNEST SHACKLETON, South: The Story of Frigates, Sloops, and Gunboats, 1815-1885 Shackleton’s Last Expedition, 1914-1917, ed. Peter King by John D. Milligan 208 by C. Jeffrey Stann 212 GEORGE NAU BURRIDGE, Green Bay Workhorses: The Gary E. WEIR, Building American Submarines, 1914- Nau Tug Line 1940 by James P. Barry 209 by Richard A. von Doenhoff 213 Table of Contents Fali 1992 Editor’s Note Articles The Politics of British Naval Failure, 1775-1777 by DANIEL A. BAUGH The Tonnage of Europe’s Merchant Fleets, 1300-1800 by RICHARD W. UNGER Query and Response Book Reviews JOHN B. HATTENDORF, ED., The Influence of History on ALAN D. WATSON, Wilmington, Port of North Carolina Mahan by James M. Morris 272 by Richard W. Turk 267 Eric C. Rust, Naval Officers Under Hitler: The Story A. A. HOEHLING, The Fighting Liberty Ships: A Memoir of Crew 34 by W. M. P. Dunne 273 by Michael L. Hadley 268 ROBERT S. WEDDLE, The French Thorn. Rival STUART M. FRANK, Dictionary of Scrimshaw Artists by Richard C. Malley 274 Explorers in the Spanish Sea, 1682-1762 by Carla Rahn Phillips 269 GEOFFREY M. FOOTNER, The Last Generation: A RICHARD ELLIS, Men and Whales History of a Chesapeake Shipbuilding Family by Kenneth R. Martin 270 by Robert Fallaw 275 COMMANDER TONY GERMAN, The Sea Is At Our Gates: The History of the Canadian Navy MIKE BENT, Steamers of the Fjords by Gerald E. Panting 271 by John R. Herbert Index to Volume 52