Item #27389 Warship Under Sail: The USS Decatur in the Pacific West. Pacific Exploration, Lorraine McConaghy.

Warship Under Sail: The USS Decatur in the Pacific West.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. This copy is signed by the author. Ordered to join the Pacific Squadron in 1854, the sloop of war Decatur sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, through the Strait of Magellan to Valparaiso, Honolulu, and Puget Sound, then on to San Francisco, Panama, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, while serving in the Pacific until 1859, the eve of the Civil War. Historian Lorraine McConaghy presents the ship, its officers, and its crew in a vigorous, keenly rendered case study that illuminates the forces shaping America's antebellum navy and foreign policy in the Pacific, from Vancouver Island to Tierra del Fuego. Item #27389

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