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The USS Saginaw was a Civil War gunboat that served in Pacific and Asian waters between 1860 and 1870. In 1870, the ship sank at one of the world’s most remote coral reefs. This narrative provides fresh insights and a vivid retelling of a classic naval shipwreck.

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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., author of Crisis at Sea

A Civil War Gunboat in Pacific Waters

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A Paperback / softback by Hans Konrad Van Tilburg

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    Publisher: University Press of Florida
    Publication Date: 28/03/2023
    ISBN13: 9780813080178, 978-0813080178
    ISBN10: 0813080177
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    Maritime history Civil wars

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    The USS Saginaw was a Civil War gunboat that served in Pacific and Asian waters between 1860 and 1870. In 1870, the ship sank at one of the world’s most remote coral reefs. This narrative provides fresh insights and a vivid retelling of a classic naval shipwreck.

    Trade Review
    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., author of Crisis at Sea

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