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ill Contents Winter 1996 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF’S NOTE LOTHROP AWARD WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT ARTICLES THE RIDDLE OF THE PORTLAND: LOST IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC — 1802 by Shirley Hughes GUARDING THE NEW GRANADAN COASTS: DILEMMAS OF THE SPANISH COAST GUARD IN THE EARLY BOURBON PERIOD by Lance Grahan DANIEL FRENCH AND THE WESTERN STEAMBOAT ENGINE by Alfred R. Maass RETURN OF THE WOLF PACKS: THE BATTLE FOR ON 113, 23-31 JULY 1942 by Robert C. Fisher READERS’ FORUM NEWS CORRECTIONS BOOK REVIEWS BRUCE LOXTON WITH CHRIS COULTHARD-CLARK, The MELANIE WIGGINS, Torpedoes in the Gulf: Galveston and Shame of Savo: Anatomy ofa Naval Disaster the U-Boats, 1942-1943 ROBERT J. CRESSMAN JAMES M. Morris ROBERT GARDINER, The First Frigates: Nine-pounder and , Slat Twelve-pounder Frigates, 1748— 1815 SHORTER NOTICES JOHN O. SANDS WILLIAM H. GARZKE, JR. AND ROBERT O. DULIN, JR., Battle- RICHARD HouGH, Captain James Cook: A Biography ships: United States Battleships, 1935-1992 80 DirRK BALLENDORF : “= ‘ ? FRANCIS E. CUPPAGE, James Cook and the WAYNE M. O’ LEARY, The Tancook Schooners: An Island Conquest of Scurvy 80 and Its Boats STEPHEN FISCHER, ED., Man and the Maritime Eric J. RUFF Environment 81 ELINOR DE WIRE, Guardians of the Lights KENNETH G. OLIVER, Under the Southern Cross: LARRY LOWENTHAL A Petty Officer’s Chronicle of the USS Octans 81 CHARLES M. ROBINSON, III, Shark of the Confederacy RICHARD W. JupD, EDWIN A. CHURCHILL, AND JOEL W. EAST- The Story of the CSS Alabama MAN, EDS., Maine: The Pine Tree State from Prehistory of ANNE J. BAILEY the Present 81 MENSUN BOUND, ED., The Archaeology of Ships at War: Based ROBERT D. BALLARD WITH SPENCER DUNMORE, Exploring on Papers Presented at an International Conference Held the Lusitania at Greenwich, London, on 31 October — 1 November JOHN CHRISTIE 1992 82 H. W. WILSON, Battleships in Action WILLIAM H. MILLER, JR., Pictorial Encyclopedia of Ocean PETER K. H. MISPELKAMP Liners, 1860-1994 82 EMILY O. GOLDMAN, Sunken Treaties: Naval Arms Con- EDWARD A. MUELLER, Upper Mississippi River Rafting Steam- trol Between the Wars boats 82 GREG KENNEDY JERRY E. STRAHAN, Andrew Jackson Higgins and the : Boats that Won the War BRITON C. BUSCH S. W. JACKMAN Volume 56, Number 4 iV Contents Spring 1996 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF’S NOTE ARTICLES TRADITIONAL FISHING CRAFT OF THE TIHAMAH AND SOUTHWESTERN ARABIAN COAST Edward Prados THE INTRODUCTION OF THE REVOLVING TURRET Arnold A. Putnam THE SEIZURE OF THE FLYING FISH Frederick C. Leiner THE UNITED STATES AND MAURITIUS 1794—1994: A BICENTENNIAL RETROSPECTIVE Larry W. Bowman COMMUNICATION: RECOVERY OF THE CROSSHEAD ENGINE OF THE STEAMBOAT COLUMBUS David C. Holly NEWS 167 BOOK REVIEWS ASHIN DAS GuPTA, Merchants of Maritime India, CARL LAVO, Back from the Deep: The Strange Story of 1500-1800 the Sister Subs Squalus and Sculpin Susan Bean 169 Fraser M. McKee 180 ROBIN KNOX-JOHNSTON, Cape Horn: A Maritime History BRENDAN WHITING, Ship of Courage: The Epic Story of James E. Valle 170 HMAS Perth and her Crew RICHARD ELLIS, Monsters of the Sea Bob Nicholls 181 Sherrie L. Lyons 171 WAYMAN C. MULLINS, ED., 1942: “Issues in Doubt,” A PATRICK A. WILDER, The Battle of Sackett’s Harbor Symposium of the War in the Pacific Ira Dye 172 Charles Dana Gibson 183 SHANNON RYAN, The Ice Hunters: A History of New- MICHAEL JOE CARLIN, Trial: Ordeal of the USS Enter- foundland Sealing to 1914 prise 14 January 1969 Leslie Harris 173 by Malcolm Muir, Jr. 184 IAN MCKAY, The Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia SHORTER NOTICES M. Brook Taylor 175 LIONEL CASSON, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient TIM H. BAUGHMAN, Before the Heroes Came: Antarctica in the 1890s World 185 Robert K. Headland 177 WILLIAM C. FLEETWOOD, JR., Tidecraft: The Boats of GEORGE W. BAER, One Hundred Years of Sea Power South Carolina, Georgia and Northeastern Florida, The U.S. Navy, 1890-1990 1550-1950 185 William R. Braisted 178 COLIN WHITE, ED., The Nelson Companion 186 CHARLES W. KOBURGER, JR., Franco—American Naval KEITH STEWART THOMPSON, HMS “Beagle”: The Story Relations, 1940-1945 of Darwin's Ship 186 J. Stuart Thomson 179 BRITON C. BUSCH The American Neptune Contents Summer 1996 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF’S NOTE ARTICLES A TUGMAN’S STORY: LIFE AND TIMES OF B. B. INMAN by Al Miller 19] THE UNITED STATES NAVY BOARDING RATTLE: A UNIQUE ITEM OF NINETEENTH CENTURY US NAVAL ORDNANCE by William J. Urick III 215 WILLIAM A. MOFFETT AND HIs “DISASTROUS DIRIGIBLES” by Paolo E. Coletta 227 A HOME ON THE SUBLIME: TRANS-OCEANIC PERSPECTIVES by Theodore I. Erski 235 How WE BUILT SHIPS ON COOPER’S POINT BEFORE WWII: A TRIBUTE TO GEORGE R. TAYLOR, SHIPBUILDER by Edward G. Brownlee 245 MUSEUM FOCUS: MARINE MUSEUM OF THE GREAT LAKES AT KINGSTON, ARCHIVAL AND LIBRARY COLLECTIONS 269 NEws 276 READERS’ FORUM 279 BooK REVIEWS RINA PRENTICE, A Celebration of the Sea: The Decorative Arts RICHARD W. FANNING, Peace and Disarmament: Naval Rivalry Collections of the National Maritime Museum and Arms Control, 1922-1933 Daniel L. Finamore 281 Michael Simpson 297 Donald G. Shomette, Tidewater Time Capsule: History Beneath MICHAEL L. HADLEY, Count Not the Dead: The Popular Image the Patuxent of the German Submarine Richard W. Lawrence 282 Eric C. Rust 298 ROBERT F. ROGERS, Destiny’s Landfall: A History of Guam C. W. KoBurGER, Jr., Naval Warfare in the Baltic, 1939-1945 David A. Chappell 283 War in a Narrow Sea Jay BARNES, North Carolina's Hurricane History Eric C. Rust 299 Alan D. Watson 284 STEPHEN D. REGAN, Jn Bitter Tempest: The Biography of Admi- CHESTER G. HEARN, George Washington’s Schooners: The First ral Frank Jack Fletcher American Navy Frank Uhlig, Jr. 301 Jonathan R. Dull 286 JEFFREY G. BARLOW, Revolt of the Admirals: The Fight for WILLIAM M. FowLer, Jr., Silas Talbot: Captain of Old Ironsides Naval Aviation, 1945-1950 Frederick C. Leiner 286 David R. Mets 302 WILLIAM DieTRICH, Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia GAYLORD T. M. KELSHALL, The U-Boat war in the Caribbean River David Syrett 304 Barry Gough 287 ADMIRAL I. J. GALANTIN, USN (RET.), Submarine Admiral: From ELIZABETH A. SCHULTZ, Unpainted to the Last: Moby Dick and Battlewagons to Ballistic Missiles Twentieth Century American Art Clark G. Reynolds 305 Richard Ellis 288 GeEorGE J. JOACHIM, Iron Fleet: The Great Lakes in World War MICHAEL DurFy, ED., Parameters of British Power, 1650-1850 Il Daniel A. Baugh 290 Jay C. Martin 306 NorMAN E. KLARE, The Final Voyage of the Central America, SHORTER NOTICES 1857 Charles R. Schultz 291 DiLWYN JONES, Boats 307 CHARLES DANA GIBSON WITH E. KAY GIBSON, Assault and Logis- JOHN B. HATTENDORF, ED., Maritime History, Volume I: The Age tics: Union Army Coastal and River Operations, of Discovery 307 1861-1866 COMMANDER ROBERT A. DAweEs, JR., USN (RET.), The Dragon's Norman C. Delaney 292 Breath: Hurricane at Sea 307 PEGGY AND HAROLD SAMUELS, Remembering the Maine ROBERT M. BROWNING, JR., U.S. Merchant Vessel War Casual- Stanley Sandler 293 ties of World War Il 308 Bos NICHOLLS, Statesmen and Sailors: Australian Maritime BRENDAN A. MAHER, A Passage to Sword Beach: Minesweeping Defence, 1870-1920 in the Royal Navy 308 Greg Kennedy 294 KEITH NEILSON AND ELIZABETH JAN ERRINGTON, EDsS., Navies GEORGE WOODMAN HILTON, Eastland: Legacy of the Titanic and Global Defense: Theories and Strategy 308 Paul T. Burlin 295 BRITON C. BUSCH Volume 56, Number 4 Contents Fall 1996 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF’S NOTE ARTICLES THE MARITIME CHARACTER OF MINOAN CIVILIZATION by Clark G. Reynolds FRANK THOMAS BULLEN, 1857—1915: WHALING AND NONFICTION MARITIME WRITING by Alston Kennerley AN EARLY ANTARCTIC LANDING: CAPTAIN COOPER’S LOG OF THE LEVANT, 1853 by Robert Keith Headland WHERE DID THE MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY OCCUR? by Raymond James Maloney NEWS READERS’ FORUM BOOK REVIEWS IAN FRIEL, The Good Ship, Shipbuilding and Technology in KEITH YATES, Graf Spee ’s Raiders: Challenge to the Royal England 1200-1520 Navy, 1914-1915 Frederick M. Hocker 393 David French 406 RICHARD HARDING, The Evolution of the Sailing Navy MALCOLM R. MuRFETT, ED., The First Sea Lords: From Fisher 1509-1815 to Mountbatten Richard Eddy 394 Keith Neilson 407 ROBERT S. WEDDLE, Changing Tides: Twilight and Dawn in the JAMES F. CALVERT, Silent Running: My Years on a World War Spanish Sea, 1763-1803 II Attack Submarine Peter C. Mancall 395 Carl Boyd 408 DAVID HANCOCK, Citizens of the World: London Merchants JOHN BUNKER, Heroes in Dungarees: The Story of the and the Integration of the British Atlantic Comunity American Merchant Marine in World War II 1735-1785 Charles Dana Gibson 409 Walter Minchinton 396 EDWARD L. BEACH, Scapegoats: a Defense of Kimmel and ROBERT L. HERBERT, Monet on the Normandy Coast: Tourism Short at Pearl Harbor and Painting, 1867-1886 Robert W. Love, Jr 411 John R. Stilgoe 397 GAYLORD T. M. KELSHALL, The U-Boat War in the Caribbean JAMES PRITCHARD, Anatomy of a Naval Disaster: The 1746 David Syrett 413 French Naval Expedition to North America SHORTER NOTICES Jonathan R. Dull 398 JOHN DUNMORE, TRANSLATOR, ED., The Journal of Jean- DIANE FROST, ED., Ethnic Labour and British Imperial Trade: A Francois de Galaup de la Pérouse, 1785-1877 Harry Kelsey 400 History of Ethnic Seafarers in the United Kingdom 413 GENE ERIC SALECKER, Disaster on the Mississippi: The Sultana DANA A. Story, The Shipbuilders of Essex: A Chronicle of Explosion, April 27, 1865 414 Yankee Endeavor Louis R. HARLAN, All at Sea: Coming of Age in World War Nathan R. Lipfert 401 I 414 SHELDON S. COHEN, Yankee Sailors in British Gaols: Prisoners of War at Forton and Mill, 1773-1783 PAUL STILLWELL, Battleship Missouri: An Illustrated History 414 Paul A. Gilje 402 JOHN A. BUTLER, Strike Able-Peter: The Stranding and Salvage HAROLD D. LANGLEY, A History of Medicine in the Early U.S Navy of the USS Missouri 414 Frederick Leiner 404 VIRGINIA STEELE WOOD AND MARry R. BULLARD, EDS., Journal ROBERT J. SCHNELLER, JR., A Quest for Glory: A Biography of ofa Visit to the Georgia Islands of St. Catherines, Green, Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren Ossaban, Sapelo, St. Simons, Jekyll, and Cumberland, Spencer C. Tucker 404 with Comments on the Florida Islands of Amelia, Talbot, CHESTER G. HEARN, The Capture of New Orleans, 1862 and St. George, in 1753 415 Royce Shingleton 405 DAVID STEVENS, ED., The Royal Australian Navy in World War Il 415 BRITON C. BUSCH The American Neptune