CONTENTS
George Gibbs
PAGE
The Effrontery of Paul Jones
7
HIS FIGHT WITH THE “DRAKE” AND DESCENT ON WHITEHAVEN
A Struggle to the Death
24
PAUL JONES’S FIGHT WITH THE “SERAPIS”
The Terrier and the Mastiff
34
NICHOLAS BIDDLE’S WONDERFUL FIGHT
Decatur and the “Philadelphia”
46
The Biggest
Little
Fight in Naval History
56
DECATUR AND THE TRIPOLITAN GUNBOATS
A Double Encounter
73
STEWART AND THE “CYANE” AND “LEVANT”
The “Constitution” and the “Guerriere”
90
The “Wasp” and the “Frolic”
106
The “Constitution” and the “Java”
117
The Last of the “Essex”
132
The Captain of the Maintop
148
Cushing and the “Albemarle”
158
Somers and the “Intrepid”
170
The Passing of the Old Navy
181
OLD SALTS AND NEW SAILORS. THE OLD SHIPS AND THE NEW
Farragut in Mobile Bay
220
At the Naval Academy
231
Our Nation’s New Heroes
248
Heroes of the Deep
274
OUR FISHING FLEET
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