A Civil War Gunboat in Pacific Waters: Life on Board USS Saginaw

"An epic shipwreck tale. Sacrifice and heroism are recounted in a comprehensive study of a ship that embodied America's role in the nineteenth—century Pacific as Yankee enterprise helped open Asia to trade. Well—researched, well—written, this book also takes readers for the first time intoSaginaw's long—lost grave beneath the sea."—James P. Delgado, president, The Institute of Nautical Archaeology

"An impressive study of a naval vessel from construction to destruction."—William Still Jr., a...