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Editors M. V. Brewington Lincoln Colcord Devon, Pennsylvania. Searsport, Maine. Howard I. Chapelle Walter Muir Whitehill Cambridge, Maryland. Peabody Museum, Salem. Book Review Editor Vernon D. Tate The National Archives. Editorial Advisory Board Robert G. Albion Robert E. Farlow Richard Orr Princeton University. New York City. North Easton, Massachusetts. Alexander C. Brown F. W. Howay Alfred W. Paine The Mariners’ Museum, New¬ New Westminster, British Co¬ New York City. port News, Virginia. lumbia. Bryant K. Rogers Lloyd A. Brown Harold A. Innis Upper Montclair, New Jersey. William L. Clements Library, University of Toronto. Henry Rusk Ann Arbor, Michigan. L. W. Jenkins M. H. de Young Museum, San Charles D. Childs Peabody Museum of Salem. Francisco. Boston, Massachusetts. John Haskell Kemble W. P. Stephens Edward Strong Clark Pomona College, Claremont, Bayside, Long Island, New York. San Francisco, California. California. Herbert L. Stone William Bell Clark Dudley W. Knox New York City. Evanston, Illinois. Office of Naval Records, Navy D. Foster Taylor Department. Griffith Baily Coale Wollaston, Massachusetts. Marine Museum of the City of W. Kaye Lamb Frank A. Taylor New York. University of British Columbia. U. S. National Museum, Wash¬ John Philips Cranwell A. R. M. Lower ington, D. C. Baltimore, Maryland. United College. Winnipeg. William H. Tripp Carl C. Cutler John W. McElrov Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Marine Historical Association. Boston, Massachusetts. Massachusetts. Mystic, Connecticut. Charles S. Morgan Charles M. Wright Ernest S. Dodge Boston, Massachusetts. Boston, Massachusetts. Peabody Museum of Salem. Samuel Eliot Morison Lawrence C. Wroth El win M. Eldredge Harvard University. John Carter Brown Library, Kingston, New York. Providence, Rhode Island. Cedric Ridgely-Nevitt Mobile, Alabama. The American Neptune is published quarterly in January, April, July, and October. The subscrip¬ tion rate is $5.00 per year. Subscriptions are accepted only for complete volumes, which coincide with the calendar year. In return for subscriptions received after the beginning of the year, subscribers will receive the numbers that have already appeared in the current volume, as well as the numbers that will be published during the remainder of the year. The stock of the original edition of Volume I, Number 1 (January 1941) is exhausted, but a photo-offset reprint of that number is available. Single copies will be supplied at Si.25 each. Notes for Contributors to THE AMERICAN NEPTUNE, a folder summarizing the rules of style to be observed in preparing manuscripts for the journal, will be sent upon request to prospective contributors. No payment is made for contributions, or for editorial work. The Editors of The American Neptune assume editorial responsibility, but they do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by authors. Subscriptions, manuscripts, books and reviews, and correspondence should be addressed to The Editors of The American Neptune c/o Peabody Museum, East India Marine Hall, Salem, Massachusetts THE AMERICAN NEPTUNE A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY )*( ^ Columbus and Polaris, by Samuel Eliot p. Morison, 6. American Naval Policy, 1775-1776, by Wil¬ p. liam Bell Clark, 26. Inspection Comments on American Ships p. and Barks, by Robert G. Albion, 42. Auxiliary Steamships and R. B. Forbes, by p. Cedric Ridgely-Nevitt, 51. A Boy’s First Day at Sea-1886, by William p. B. Sturtevant, 58. The Historic American Merchant Marine p. Survey, by Frank A. Taylor, 63. PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN NEPTUNE, INCORPORATED SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS $5.00 a year Si.25 a copy The American Neptune Fifty-Year Index Volumes I-L, 1941-1990 Copyright 1997 by the Peabody Essex Museum Salem, Massachusetts, USA Co-Published By The Peabody Essex Museum Salem, Massachusetts and The Georgica Press Wainscott, New York Produced in cooperation with TenBroeck Consulting Company Salem, Massachusetts, USA ISBN 0-87577-162-9 Printed in the United States of America 11 Acknowledgments We deeply appreciate the participation of Donald A. Petrie in the development of this major aid to maritime history research. It was Donald’s idea. His enthusiasm and generosity made the fulfillment of this work possible. His concern with making the product of maximum use to scholars led us to broader and more helpful contents and format. Most particularly, we thank our Managing Editor, Mrs. Geraldine “Jerry” Ayers, for having developed the annual and five-year indices — in addition to all her other tasks — for more years than we can count. She is in so many ways the heart of The American Neptune. Nancy TenBroeck carried out the task of entering some 40,000 lines of information from the ten earlier five-year indices, then supervised proofreading of the entries, followed by the more difficult task of correcting earlier differences and errors. Her associates in this task included the late Thomas T. Howarth. Subsequently, she reworked the entire product to insert the new topical reference material. We are indebted to her for her effective and dedicated pursuit of accuracy and clarity. John Koza contributed his knowledge of how to organize entries according to the Library of Congress classifications. He put in order the entries of our first fifty volumes of The American Neptune to incorporate the topical inventory of materials in the principal articles of the Neptune. This was an enormous task and a major contribution to the final product. John Arrison, librarian of the Penobscot Marine Museum, initiated the first steps in evolving a topical inventory of the material in the Neptune"s articles. He broke the way through our untried efforts to distill useful data for the Fifty-Year Index. The Neptune Staff in F oreword This index provides a unified alphabetized listing of the entries in the first ten American Neptune five-year indices, encompassing the first fifty volumes (I through L). Those indices were themselves integrated from annual indices. The fifty volumes involved were published between 1941 and 1990. Subsequently, the list of topical index entries for the fifty years has been inserted. The Neptune Index is particularly suited for research in maritime history, since it includes the names of captains, masters, and some of the crew and passengers of many of the vessels that are referred to in the quarterly issues. The Index also includes the names of authors and their articles published in The Neptune. In addition to the ship’s name (shown in italics), the specific volume (in Roman numerals), and page number reference in which they appear, most ship entries provide the category of vessel (bark, schooner, steamer/steamboat, etc.), together with the year in which the vessel was constructed (in regular type) or the year to which the vessel is referred in the narrative (in italics). Because the entry name of the ship is usually cited in full (where known) in its alphabetical order, we have also included a separate table listing the last name of most compound names, inasmuch as some references in articles may cite that vessel only by its last name. Because there may be cumulative references to the same ship over time in several volumes — references which may contain slightly varied data — some sequences of vessels with the same or similar names appear in the Index. Some listings are quite extended, especially when the same name is used for different vessels. The standard entry for an individual or organization is shown either in full or, in some cases, by initials in which the last name of the individual is often listed first. Although Roman numerals are used to identify Neptune volume numbers, sometimes they are used to refer to illustrative plates. The Index also includes the titles of many books which have been reviewed, with references to the Neptune volume and page number where the review is located. The small letters “ft’ or “ff,” following a page number, indicate that data relative to the topic continues on the following page or pages. Some geographical features are cited (e.g., Abaco Island, Bermuda). A ship’s name with the preceding “ex-” indicates a former name of the same vessel. The letter “n” is used to denote a short note, rather than the usual article presentation. Changes in the index format and style over the past fifty years have resulted in some variation of index entries; hence, the users of this volume may encounter certain idiosyncracies in the listings. We have tried to minimize oversights, and present a volume that is as all-inclusive as permitted by the information we have. Readers of the American Neptune know that this journal has always had some level of indexing. Annual indices usually appear in the fourth issue of each year. At five-year intervals, these annual indices were combined and published as part of the last issue of each five-year period. In compiling this Fifty-Year Index, the first task performed was combining all the five-year indices into a single unit. During this process, it became clear that, despite the great level of detail already included in the index, there was a bare minimum of subject indexing. A book or periodical index that includes subjects typically traces the subject ideas on every page of the publication. To go back and perform this level of subject indexing on fifty years of The American Neptune would be a gargantuan and IV costly task. Therefore, a decision was made to provide a broad level of subject analysis for the articles, using the Library of Congress Subject Headings as a guide. The Library of Congress Subject Headings have become the de facto standard list of subject headings for books in academic libraries in the United States. Based on the Library of Congress’ collection, the Library of Congress Subject Headings provides a uniform list of headings to be applied to all works. One consistent term is selected for each subject so that all works about a subject are located in the same place. For example, a reader could choose from a number of terms to search for information on cars, such as motor vehicles, autos, or automobiles. The Library of Congress has designated the term “Automobile” as the one heading under which all works about cars will be located. References pointing to this heading are supplied throughout the index (e.g., Cars — see Automobiles”). One example from The American Neptune Fifty-Year Index is “Seafaring Life,” which is used for such terms as “life at sea,” “sea life,” or “sailor’s life at sea.” Terms are created by subject specialist cataloguers at the Library of Congress. The method employed in the creation of this Fifty-Year Index is to treat each article as if it were a separate book, and choose appropriate headings from the Library of Congress Subject Headings that represent the major subjects represented in each article. These headings are, by necessity, broad. They do not trace every instance of a subject throughout the journal. Because these headings were created independently from the five-year indices, there is some minor duplication between the original work and the new subject headings. Many of these apparent duplications were retained because a minor variation helps to bring out an additional aspect of the subject. Whole books have been written on the application of the Library of Congress Subject Headings, so the few words which follow, while not a complete guide, will help the reader to work with the headings as they are found in this index. Within each broad heading there can be subheadings, or subdivisions, which help to further specify the subject represented in an article. For example, “Arctic Regions” contains three subdivisions: “Description and Travel,” “Discovery and Exploration,” and “Fiction.” Subdivisions can help the reader home in on specific areas of interest, or sometimes rule out areas which are not pertinent to their research. Subdivisions breaking down periods of time are very common, particularly under the names of countries (e.g., “United States — History — ” followed by the various periods in US history in chronological order). Names of countries can serve as subdivisions, as can be seen under “Shipbuilding,” and “Privateering.” When specific government departments are the subject of an article, they are found under the name of the country, followed by the name of the government department (e.g., “Argentina. Navy”). While the subject index items will be useful for finding items specific to a reader’s work, they can also be used effectively by browsing. Some practical notes: 1. Boldface type is used to indicate the subject headings. 2. An indent and a long dash separate the minor subject index headings from major components. 3. Alphabetizing is arranged by putting the subject entries before the ships of the same name, which in turn precede other entries starting with the same words. WWW v