American Sea Power in the Old World: The United States Navy in European and Near Eastern Waters, 1865-1917

American Sea Power in the Old World: The United States Navy in European and Near Eastern Waters, 1865-1917

by William N Still Jr.
American Sea Power in the Old World: The United States Navy in European and Near Eastern Waters, 1865-1917

American Sea Power in the Old World: The United States Navy in European and Near Eastern Waters, 1865-1917

by William N Still Jr.

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Overview

This classic study examines the deployment of U.S. naval vessels in European and Near Eastern waters from the end of the Civil War until the United States declared war in April 1917. Initially these ships were employed to visit various ports from the Baltic Sea to the eastern Mediterranean and Constantinople (today Istanbul), for the primary purpose of showing the flag. From the 1890s on, most of the need for the presence of the American warships occurred in the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Unrest in the Ottoman Empire and particularly the Muslim hostility and threats to Armenians led to calls for protection. This would continue into the years of World War I. In 1905, the Navy Department ended the permanent stationing of a squadron in European waters. From then until the U.S. declaration of war in 1917, individual ships, detached units, and special squadrons were at times deployed in European waters. In 1908, the converted yacht Scorpion was sent as station ship (stationnaire) to Constantinople where she would remain, operating in the eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea until 1928. Upon the outbreak of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson ordered cruisers to northern European waters and the Mediterranean to protect American interests. These warships, however, did more than protect American interests. They would evacuate thousands of refugees, American tourists, Armenians, Jews, and Italians after Italy entered the conflict on the side of the Allies.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781591146186
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Publication date: 02/15/2018
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

William N. Still Jr. was an American maritime historian who was the first director of the program in maritime history at East Carolina University and a noted author of works on U.S. Civil War history and U.S. naval history.

Table of Contents

Illustrations vii

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xiii

1 The Navy as an Instrument of Policy: The European Station 3

2 Goldsborough, Farragut, and the Establishment of the European Squadron 20

3 Logistics 39

4 Protecting American Interests: The 1870s and 1880s 56

5 The Near East, Africa, and the Decline of the Squadron 72

6 The New Navy and The Turkish Crisis, 1889-1895 91

7 The Turkish Crisis, 1895-1897 113

8 The Navy and the European Powers, 1898-1910 133

9 The Near East and Africa, 1899-1905 153

10 Special Squadrons and the Scorpion 171

11 World War I: The Navy and Neutrality, 1914-1917 185

Abbreviations 211

Notes 215

Bibliography 265

Index 283

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