http://navyrotc.mit.edu/ US Navy Official Web Site http://navyrotc.mit.edu/www/gouge/gougecont.html The Gouge Note Chapter 5 of "The Gouge" - perhaps this is where some information could be found: US Navy Department! http://navyrotc.mit.edu/www/gouge/chap5-1.htm The History of the United States Navy 12 JUN 1775 First Naval engagement during the revolution: citizens seize British cargo sloop and HMS Margaretta Here's a sample of the time line that Maine has established for herself: http://www.mpbc.org/mpbcsite/television/hometsom/timelines/timetxt1.html#yor ktea The British ship Margaretta is captured: A group of Machias citizens led an impromptu attack on a British ship anchored in Machias Bay. The ship and its captain were there to protect a local merchant who supplied Britain with lumber. Machias residents, armed with guns, swords, axes, and pitchforks, managed to capture the ship and to fatally wound its captain. The capture of the Margaretta was the first naval battle of the American Revolution. from the Maine Public Broadcasting 1773 The Boston Tea Party: Boston patriots protest British tax laws by dumping British East India Co. tea into Boston Harbor. 1774 The "York Tea Party." 1775 Maine's population reaches 47,000 settlers. Patriots fight the British in the Battle of Lexington and Concord. The British ship Margaretta is captured by Machias residents. British Captain Mowatt burns Falmouth, Maine (present-day Portland). Benedict Arnold marches 1000 men up the Kennebec River to Quebec; his army is defeated. 1776 The Declaration of Independence is written and approved. 1779 British forces occupy Castine and take control of eastern Maine. The Penobscot Expedition against the British at Castine is a military disaster. 1820 Congress passes the Missouri Compromise. Maine enters the Union as the 23rd state. Maine's population is 300,000. William King is elected first state governor. Portland is chosen as the state capital. Hallowell quarries sell the granite that will build Boston's Quincy Market. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Bibliography of Books Appearing in the "Index to Ships in Books" http://www1.lib.washington.edu/dbtw-wpd/docs/shipindex/ Index to Ships in Books -- Search Engine Page http://www1.lib.washington.edu/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpcgi.exe http://faculty.washington.edu/petermcc/indexbib.html http://ils.unc.edu/maritime/home.shtml#resource on Maritime History on the Internet Albion, Robert G. Five Centuries of Famous Ships: From the Santa Maria to the Glomar Explorer. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978. Albion, Robert Greenhalgh. The Rise of New York Port, 1815-1860. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970. NB: This volume was originally published in 1939. The original text remains; this is not a revised edition. Albion, Robert G. Square-Riggers on Schedule: The New York Sailing Packets to England, France, and the Cotton Ports. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938. The American Neptune. Salem, Mass.: Peabody Essex Museum, 1941-. NB: At the moment, this index only covers ships mentioned in volumes 1 (1941) through 50 (1990). The contents were drawn from the Fifty-Year Index to The American Neptune, published in 1997. The following notes regarding use of the index, drawn from the print volume's Foreword, may be useful: "In addition to the ship's name (shown in italics), the specific volume (in Roman numerals), and page number reference in which they appear, most ship entries provide the category of vessel (bark, schooner, steamer/steamboat, etc.), together with the year in which the vessel was constructed (in regular type) or the year to which the vessel is referred in the narrative (in italics)... "Although Roman numerals are used to identify Neptune volume numbers, sometimes they are used to refer to illustrative plates... "A ship's name with the preceding 'ex-' indicates a former name of the same vessel. The letter 'n' is used to denote a short note, rather than the usual article presentation." In summary: The Roman numeral is the volume number, the Arabic numeral is the page number. Content from 'Pictorial Supplements' is also included; these are generally illustrations. A year printed in regular type indicates a ship's year of construction, and therefore appears with the ship name. A year printed in italic type indicates a year of mention, and therefore appears with the page numbering. I have not applied this universally; in some cases multiple years in regular type appear in one entry. I have not attempted to correct, much less clarify, these variations. The Fifty-Year Index to The American Neptune is a valuable resource. In addition to these 11,650-odd ship names, the index "includes the names of captains, masters, and some of the crew and passengers of many of the vessels" mentioned in the journal. It also contains several subject headings for each article that appeared in The American Neptune's first fifty years, plus book reviews, geographical features, and more. I owe special thanks to William T. La Moy and Nancy TenBroeck for providing me with access to this index, and hope to add the next two 5-year indexes soon. Baker, William Avery. A Maritime History of Bath, Maine, and the Kennebec River Region. Two volumes. Bath, Maine: Marine Research Society, 1973. Baker is the only author who alphabetized ships named after people by the family name, rather than the given name. So the schooner Florence Randall appeared in the index under 'R,' rather than under 'F.' With much effort, I have changed all entries so they appear in order with all other entries in this index. Vessels with just page numbers indicate those "built outside Kennebec region or not otherwise identified" (1121). The following information applies to all other entries: "This index gives the place and year of construction of the vessels listed in Appendix A plus page references to the text where any of these vessels are mentioned. "Key to Abbreviations of Towns in District: Arr = Arrowsic; Aug = Augusta; Bdn = Bowdoin; Bhm = Bowdoinham; Bk = Brunswick; Ch = Chelsea; Dr = Dresden; Far = Farmingdale; Gar = Gardiner; Gtn = Georgetown; Hal = Hallowell; Hp = Harpswell; Ken = Kennebec; Lis = Lisbon; N.M. = New Meadows; Per = Perkins; Ph = Phippsburg; Pit = Pittston; Pow = Pownalborough; R = Richmond; Sid = Sidney; Top = Topsham; Vas = Vassalboro; Wat = Waterville; Win = Winslow; Wool = Woolwich" (1071) Beach, Edward L. The United States Navy: 200 Years. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1986. Braynard, Frank O. Famous American Ships: Being an Historical Sketch of the United States as told Through its Maritime Life. New York: Hastings House, 1956. Brock, Rear Admiral P. W., CB, DSO. Steam and Sail: In Britain and North America. Princeton, New Jersey: The Pyne Press, 1973. A collection of photographs of British and American vessels, with some ship histories. Bruce, Anthony, and William Cogar. An Encyclopedia of Naval History. New York: Checkmark Books, 1998. Page numbers in boldface indicate article titles. Those in italics indicate illustrations. [Curiously, it seems that ships without their own main entry do not receive any type of prefix, like "H.M.S." or "U.S.S." As a result, it may seem that some military vessels are merchants, when that is not the case. I would guess that this is because the indexing was done by someone other than the author.] Calkins, R. H. (Skipper). High Tide: The Drama and Tragedy of Seattle's Waterfront. Seattle: Marine Digest Publishing, 1952. Campbell, R. Thomas. Sea Hawk of the Confederacy: Lt. Charles W. Read and the Confederate Navy. Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press, 2000. Chapelle, Howard I. The History of American Sailing Ships. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1935. Chapelle, Howard I. The History of the American Sailing Navy: The Ships and Their Development. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1949. Each entry in this index contains a brief history of the listed ship, plus various dimensions and statistics. When using the source, be sure to check the index itself for useful information. Chapelle, Howard I. The Search for Speed Under Sail, 1700-1855. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1967. Most ship entries in this index include specific entries for "dimensions," "displacement," "midship coefficient," "block coefficient," "prismatic coefficient," "camber-length ratios," etc., etc. While the page numbers have not been removed from the Ship Name Index, these specific descriptive elements have, in the interest of brevity. Less common subheadings have been included. Any ship name with several pages of discussion in this work will include those dimensions and coefficients. Clark, Arthur H. The Clipper Ship Era: An Epitome of Famous American and British Clipper Ships, Their Owners, Builders, Commanders, and Crews, 1843-1869. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker Press, 1910. "Vessels not otherwise designated are American." Course, Capt. A. G. Windjammers of the Horn: The Story of the Last British Fleet of Square-rigged Sailing Ships. London: Adlard Coles, Ltd., 1969. Cutler, Carl C. Greyhounds of the Sea: The Story of the American Clipper Ship. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1930. "To lessen repetition, the given or Christian names of individuals are omitted for the most part from text and appendices. The index supplies such information by giving full names wherever available, thus making possible complete identification in a majority of instances. "In the matter of names of firms and persons, some discrepancy in spelling, initials, etc., is to be noted in records of every description, official and otherwise. Such names are reported as they were set down in contemporary accounts, in the belief that this course will rarely mislead and, in some instances, may result in more definite identification." Also note: Some phrases, indicating a mention in an appendix, have been deleted from this index, though the page numbers have been retained. Cutler, Carl C. Queens of the Western Ocean: The Story of America's Mail and Passenger Sailing Lines. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1961. "WHEN the spelling of a ship's name varies in the records, an alternate spelling is given in parentheses: Abaellino (Abaelino). "When there are more than two ships of the same name, the rigs of the vessels are given using the following abbreviations: Sl. = Sloop; Sch. = Schooner; Bg. = Brig; Stm. Bg. = Steam Brig; Bk. = Bark; Sp. = Ship; Stbt. = Steamboat; SS = Steam Ship (paddle); St. Prop. = Steam Propeller. As a further aid in distinguishing vessels of the same name, their tonnages are given in parentheses. "The letters (Cl.) after a vessel's name indicate that she was clipper-built. The expression (tern) after a schooner's name indicates that she was a three-masted vessel. Gibbs, Jim. Disaster Log of Ships. Seattle: Superior Publishing Co., 1971. This book consists primarily of pictures of sunk, beached, rammed, and otherwise suffering ships. Nearly every reference refers to a photograph, though there is some text, as well. Gimpel, Herbert J. The United States Nuclear Navy. New York: F. Watts, 1965. Greenhill, Basil. The Merchant Schooners. Two volumes. London: National Maritime Museum, 1978. (Originally: Percival Marshall & Co., 1951.) Modern Maritime Classics Reprint Series, no. 1. "Illustration pages are indicated by italics." Hegarty, Reginald B., comp. Addendum to "Starbuck" and "Whaling Masters": New Bedford Customs District. New Bedford, MA: New Bedford Free Public Library, 1964. This compilation "involve[s] whaling voyages clearing through the New Bedford Customs District; namely, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, New Bedford, Rochester or Mattapoisett, Sippican or Marion, Wareham, and Westport... [I]n relation to Starbuck's great work [see Starbuck, Nathaniel, History of the American Whale Fishery, From its Earliest Incetion to the Year 1876, below], [this list] falls into three categories; missing names of captains, dates, and/or voyages. In each instance sufficient additional information in included to identify the voyage." Also, as noted in the index to Starbuck, which is also in this index, "repeated page numbers indicate more than one voyage in the same year by a vessel or more than one vessel with similar name." Hollett, David. Passage to the New World: Packet Ships and Irish Famine Emigrants, 1845-1851. Abergavenny, Great Britain: P.M. Heaton Publishing, 1995. Howarth, Stephen. To Shining Sea: A History of the United States Navy, 1775-1991. New York: Random House, 1991. Howe, Octavius T., M.D., and Frederick C. Matthews. American Clipper Ships, 1833-1858. 2 vols. Salem, Mass.: Marine Research Society, 1926. Hyde, Francis E., and J. R. Harris. Blue Funnel: A History of the Alfred Holt and Company of Liverpool, from 1865 to 1914. Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press, 1957. "The names of ships in brackets refer to the type of ship." Kemp, Lieut.-Cmdr. P. K., O.B.E. History of the Royal Navy. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. Labaree, Benjamin W., William M. Fowler, Jr., Edward W. Sloan, John B. Hattendorf, Jeffrey J. Safford, and Andrew W. German. America and the Sea: A Maritime History. Mystic, Conn.: Mystic Seaport, 1998. References to illustrations are included in the Ship Name Index, but are not marked as illustrations. Laing, Alexander. The American Heritage History of Seafaring America. New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, 1974. Lass, William E. A History of Steamboating on the Upper Missouri River. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1962. Lubbock, Basil. The Colonial Clippers. Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1948. "All ships named are sailing vessels except those marked s.s. (steamer) or aux. (auxiliary)." [NB: "e. s." = "et seq.", or, "and following"] Lubbock, Basil. Last of the Windjammers. Two volumes. Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., 1927, 1935. Lubbock, Basil. The Nitrate Clippers. Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., 1932. Lubbock, Basil. The Opium Clippers. Glasgow: Brown, Son, & Ferguson, Ltd., 1933. MacGregor, David R. Merchant Sailing Ships, 1775-1815: Sovereignty of Sail. London: Conway Maritime, 1985. "Figures in italics refer to page numbers of illustrations." MacGregor, David R. Merchant Sailing Ships, 1815-1850: Supremacy of Sail. London: Conway Maritime, 1984. MacGregor, David R. Merchant Sailing Ships, 1850-1875: Heyday of Sail. London: Conway Maritime, 1984. "Figures in italics refer to page numbers of illustrations. No steamers listed in the Appendices are included. No ships are indexed from Appendices III and VI." Massman, Emory A. Hospital Ships of World War II: An Illustrated Reference to 39 United States Military Vessels. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1999. Matthews, Frederick C. American Merchant Ships, 1850-1900. Salem, Massachusetts: Marine Research Society, 1930. Matthews, Frederick C. American Merchant Ships, 1850-1900: Series Two. Salem, Massachusetts: Marine Research Society, 1931. Millar, John F. American Ships of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1978. Miller, Nathan. The U.S. Navy: An Illustrated History. New York: American Heritage Publishing; Annapolis: United States Naval Institute Press, 1977. "Numbers in boldface refer to illustrations." Mills, Randall V. Sternwheelers Up Columbia: A Century of Steamboating in the Oregon Country. Palo Alto, California: Pacific Books, 1947. [NB: Ship names in Appendix A were not included in the book's printed index, but they have been added to this index. Multiple entries for single ships from Appendix A have been combined.] Mystic Seaport Museum: G. W. Blunt White Library. Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1820-1890. In Library of Congress, American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library. Mystic, Conn.: Mystic Seaport Museum; Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2002. URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/mymhihtml/mymhihome.html. Accessed: 5 February 2002. "This selection of items from Mystic Seaport's archival collections includes logbooks, diaries, letters, business papers, and published narratives of voyages and travels. The unique maritime perspective of these materials offers a rich look at the events, culture, beliefs, and personal experiences associated with the settlement of California, Alaska, Hawaii, Texas, and the Pacific Northwest. A number of photographs, paintings, maps, and nautical charts are also included to illustrate the story of Americans' western seaborne travel. Various themes are touched upon, including whaling, life at sea, shipping, women at sea, and native populations." The site contains the transcribed full text of each document, plus scanned images of each page. One can do full-text searching across the collection. For each of the 311 vessels included in the index, clicking on the word "Online" will take one directly to the source mentioning the vessel, or to a list of relevant entries, if there are more than one. Newell, Gordon, ed. The H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966. Subtitled, "An illustrated review of the growth and development of the maritime industry from 1895, the date of publication of the last such comprehensive history, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, to the present time, with sketches and portraits of a number of well known marine men." N.B.: I am aware that there are a lot of errors in this listing. '5's and '6's were often confused, and I could not check all of them. Perhaps some time in the future I'll have an opportunity to go through the 159 pages of this file and check all the numbers. For now, it's enough to know that all the ship names should be correct, and you can check the index yourself to be certain. I welcome all corrections and will incorporate them into the file. CAPITALIZED ship names indicate entries in the "Picture Index." In the case of ship names that are always capitalized (such as "AVP-55"), I have added "(ill.)" after the page number. Some of these say an image is "opp." (opposite) a specific page, but the volume I used did not contain these plates. Newell, Gordon. Ocean Liners of the 20th Century. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1963. This volume is primarily a collection of photographs, and the index is just a "Picture Index": the text is not indexed. Every reference is to a photograph, drawing, or painting. Newell, Gordon R. Ships of the Inland Sea: The Story of the Puget Sound Steamboats. Portland: Binfords & Mort, 1960. Paine, Lincoln P. Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia. With contributions by James H. Terry and Hal Fessenden. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. "Page numbers in bold type indicate main entries. Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations." I located a lot of errors in the printed index to this book, especially toward the end of the alphabet. I corrected the ones I identified, but undoubtedly missed many more. Ritchie, David. Shipwrecks: An Encyclopedia of the World's Worst Disasters at Sea. New York: Checkmark Books, 1996. "This index is designed to be used in conjunction with the cross-references within the A-to-Z entries. The main A-to-Z entries are indicated by boldface page references. The general subjects are subdivided by the A-to-Z entries [here indicated as underlined]. Italicized page references indicate illustrations; 'c' following the locator indicates the chronology." Roscoe, Theodore. On the Seas and In the Skies: A History of the U.S. Navy's Air Power. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1970. Rowe, William Hutchinson. The Maritime History of Maine: Three Centuries of Shipbuilding & Seafaring. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1948. Sea Chest: The Journal of the Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society. Seattle, 1967-. [NB: This index only covers ships mentioned in volumes 21 (1987) through 32 (1998). Numbers in bold indicate the volume number. The following legend identifies qualifier abbreviations: FISH = Fishing vessel, any rig or propulsion; HMCS = Her Majesty's Canadian Ship; HMS = Her Majesty's Ship; MS = Motor ship, oceangoing; MV = Motor vessel, inland; NOAA = National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration; Sail = Sail powered vessels, all rigs; SDWHL = Side paddle wheel; STWHL = Stern paddle wheel; SS = Steamship, oceangoing; STR = Steamer, inland; Tug = Towboats, steam or diesel; USAT = US Army Transport; USC&GS = US Coast & Geodetic Survey; USCG = US Coast Guard; USCS = US Coast Survey; USLHS = US Light House Service; USPHS = US Public Health Service; USRCS = US Revenue Cutter Service. Special thanks go to Hal Will for creating and providing this index, and to Gil Joynt and John Carver for assistance in obtaining the Sea Chest index for use in this database. - PMc] Sontag, Sherry, and Christopher Drew. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage. New York: Public Affairs, 1998. Starbuck, Alexander. History of the American Whale Fishery, From its Earliest Inception to the Year 1876. 2 vol. New York: Argosy-Antiquarian, 1964. Note: This book was first published in part IV of the report of the U.S. Commission on Fish and Fisheries, Washington, 1878, and also issued privately by the author in 1878. Entries for this title are taken not from Starbuck's work, but from Reginald Hegarty's Addendum to "Starbuck" and "Whaling Masters" (New Bedford: New Bedford Free Public Library, 1964), in which Hegarty compiled an index to Starbuck, and also included an addendum with further information on some vessels. Hegarty's addendum is also included in the Index to Ships in Books. Wall, Robert. Ocean Liners. Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell Books, 1977. "Figures in italics refer to illustrations." Rhonda Houston