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Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay and Other Tales of the Lost Chesapeake
Donald G. Shomette
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Description for Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay and Other Tales of the Lost Chesapeake
Hardcover. Num Pages: 400 pages, 71 b/w photos, 14 illustrations, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 166 x 35. Weight in Grams: 756.
On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson issued a national call to arms against Imperial Germany. What followed in the United States was a frenzied effort to build hundreds of merchant ships to replace those being destroyed in Germany’s campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare. The newly created U.S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation embarked on a course that, in the span of a few pivotal years in American history, came to exhibit mankind’s genius, ignorance, avarice, drive—and folly—for the largest portion of that fleet came to rest on the muddy floor of Mallows Bay. In Ghost Fleet of ... Read more
On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson issued a national call to arms against Imperial Germany. What followed in the United States was a frenzied effort to build hundreds of merchant ships to replace those being destroyed in Germany’s campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare. The newly created U.S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation embarked on a course that, in the span of a few pivotal years in American history, came to exhibit mankind’s genius, ignorance, avarice, drive—and folly—for the largest portion of that fleet came to rest on the muddy floor of Mallows Bay. In Ghost Fleet of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Tidewater Pub
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780870334801
SKU
V9780870334801
Shipping Time
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About Donald G. Shomette
Donald Grady Shomette has authored fourteen books and many scientific and popular articles that have appeared in such publications as National Geographic, History and Technology, and American Neptune. He lives in Dunkirk, Maryland.
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