Sea Fighters
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Miller, Warren H.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Sea Fighters: Navy Yarns of the Great War The Peases are Navy people. Ever since Congress voted Commodore Pease ten numbers for gallantry in action at Vera Cruz in ´43, there have been several of them in the service in every generation. During the Civil War, one of them went down in the ill-fated U. S. S. Cumberland before the ram of the Merrimac, firing his last guns as the waves surged over them; while another led the van on the U. S. S. Varuna when Farragut forced the forts before New Orleans. During the Spanish War, a Pease, "Crinky" by Annapolis nickname, in command of a converted yacht or "spit kit" as they were facetiously termed in the Navy, engaged and sank four Spanish gunboats in an action off the south shore of Cuba. Crinky Pease came out of that fight in great gusto - his decks all combed with the machine gun and rifle fire - a thirteen-pounder shell through his engine room missing the main steam pipe by just three inches - happy as a lark, without having lost one of his men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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