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...