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Uncommon warriors : 200 years of the of the most unusual American naval vessels / Ken W. Sayers.

By: Publication details: Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, c2012.Description: xxiv, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781591147602 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Two centuries of the of the most unusual American naval vessels
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 359.8/30973 23
LOC classification:
  • VA58.4 .S36 2012
Contents:
Two momentous days in the Pacific: Antares (AG 10) -- The leader of the "ghost fleet": Utah (AG 16) -- "Chesapeake raider": Wyoming (AG 17) -- Miscellaneous auxiliaries fit for a president--and a king: Sequoia (AG 23) and Potomac (AG 25) -- Three "mysterious" queen ships: Anacapa (AG 49), Big Horn (IX 207), and Irene Forsyte (IX 93) -- Terrier tester: Mississippi (AG 128) -- Cinema celebrity: Hewell (AG 145) -- Steaming demon: Richard E Kraus (AG 151) -- The checker of sins: Compass Island (AG 153) -- Three lives of a "mariner": Observation Island (AG 154) -- Satellite communicator: Kingsport (T-AG 164) -- The navy's secret snooper ships: Belmont (AG 167), Georgetown (AG 165), Jamestown (AG 166), Liberty (AG 168), Lt. James R. Robinson (T-AG 170), Oxford (AG 159), Pvt. Jose F. Valdez (T-AG 169), and Sgt. Joseph E. Muller (T-AG 171) -- Sub snatcher: Glomar Explorer (AG 193) -- Versatile specialist: Vanguard (T-AG 194) -- ABCDs to IX: Alton (IX 5) and Despatch (ix 2) -- One U.S. battleship sunk by another: Coast Battleship no. 4 (IX 6) -- Farragut's fighting flagship: Hartford (IX 13) -- Crane ship no. 1: Kearsarge (IX 16) -- The last of her kind: Constellation (IX 20) -- Old Ironsides: Constitution (IX 21) -- Naval academy "brig" from the Spanish Navy: Reina Mercedes (IX 25) -- A half century of national service: Wheeling (IX 28) -- The Navy's oldest steel-hulled warship afloat: Olympia (IX 40) -- International racing champion purchased for one dollar: America (ix 41) -- Sidewheel freshwater flattops: Wolverine (IX 64) and Sable (IX 81) -- "CIC University": Moosehead (IX 98) -- From yacht to pioneering warship and back again: Sea Cloud (IX 99) -- German cruiser meets the atomic bomb: Prinz Eugen (IX 300) -- The ship with the surreal silhouette: Atlanta (ix 304) -- Mother ship to deep divers: Elk River (IX 501) -- The Navy's smallest "aircraft carrier": Baylander (IX 514) -- And now for something different: Sea Flyer (IX 515) -- Now you see it, now you don't: Sea Shadow (IX 529) -- One fast cat: joint venture (IX 532) -- Directory of "miscellaneous" vessels in the U.S. fleet -- Appendix A: List of miscellaneous auxiliary vessels -- Appendix B: List of unclassified miscellaneous vessels -- Appendix C: List of miscellaneous related vessels.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Two momentous days in the Pacific: Antares (AG 10) -- The leader of the "ghost fleet": Utah (AG 16) -- "Chesapeake raider": Wyoming (AG 17) -- Miscellaneous auxiliaries fit for a president--and a king: Sequoia (AG 23) and Potomac (AG 25) -- Three "mysterious" queen ships: Anacapa (AG 49), Big Horn (IX 207), and Irene Forsyte (IX 93) -- Terrier tester: Mississippi (AG 128) -- Cinema celebrity: Hewell (AG 145) -- Steaming demon: Richard E Kraus (AG 151) -- The checker of sins: Compass Island (AG 153) -- Three lives of a "mariner": Observation Island (AG 154) -- Satellite communicator: Kingsport (T-AG 164) -- The navy's secret snooper ships: Belmont (AG 167), Georgetown (AG 165), Jamestown (AG 166), Liberty (AG 168), Lt. James R. Robinson (T-AG 170), Oxford (AG 159), Pvt. Jose F. Valdez (T-AG 169), and Sgt. Joseph E. Muller (T-AG 171) -- Sub snatcher: Glomar Explorer (AG 193) -- Versatile specialist: Vanguard (T-AG 194) -- ABCDs to IX: Alton (IX 5) and Despatch (ix 2) -- One U.S. battleship sunk by another: Coast Battleship no. 4 (IX 6) -- Farragut's fighting flagship: Hartford (IX 13) -- Crane ship no. 1: Kearsarge (IX 16) -- The last of her kind: Constellation (IX 20) -- Old Ironsides: Constitution (IX 21) -- Naval academy "brig" from the Spanish Navy: Reina Mercedes (IX 25) -- A half century of national service: Wheeling (IX 28) -- The Navy's oldest steel-hulled warship afloat: Olympia (IX 40) -- International racing champion purchased for one dollar: America (ix 41) -- Sidewheel freshwater flattops: Wolverine (IX 64) and Sable (IX 81) -- "CIC University": Moosehead (IX 98) -- From yacht to pioneering warship and back again: Sea Cloud (IX 99) -- German cruiser meets the atomic bomb: Prinz Eugen (IX 300) -- The ship with the surreal silhouette: Atlanta (ix 304) -- Mother ship to deep divers: Elk River (IX 501) -- The Navy's smallest "aircraft carrier": Baylander (IX 514) -- And now for something different: Sea Flyer (IX 515) -- Now you see it, now you don't: Sea Shadow (IX 529) -- One fast cat: joint venture (IX 532) -- Directory of "miscellaneous" vessels in the U.S. fleet -- Appendix A: List of miscellaneous auxiliary vessels -- Appendix B: List of unclassified miscellaneous vessels -- Appendix C: List of miscellaneous related vessels.

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