Captain Blakeley and the Wasp : the cruise of 1814 /
Duffy, Stephen W. H.,1960-
Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press,
c2001.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-336) and index.
Part 1 The Captain : Choose now for Mr. B -- Presidential studies -- Rodger's boy -- The spirit of Yankee enterprise -- Some refractory characters on board -- Delay, disappointment, and disaster -- Chained to the moorings -- Part 2 The Corvette : The Argus accurately extended -- The autumn of discontent -- Two Connecticut Yankees in Newburyport -- A dull, harmless drone -- Provisioning the Piscataqua -- Part 3 The cruise : The testing begins -- The carnage was dreadful -- L'Orient -- The Wasp, to be sure -- Adieu -- No more shall Blakeley's thunder roar.
Blakeley, Johnston, -1815.
Wasp (Sloop)
United States. Navy
Ship captains
Captain Blakeley and the Wasp.