The Salem frigate
Subtitle: a novel
By: by John Jennings.
Publisher: Doubleday & company, inc.
Published: 1946
Place of publication: Garden City, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
Subjects: United States -- History -- Tripolitan War, 1801-1805 -- Fiction; United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Uptight doctor and roguish carpenter play out their rivalry over the same women in the US Navy of 1798-1815, centered on the frigate Essex, which they helped build. During the course of the story both serve on the Essex during its first voyage, the Philadelphia during the Barbary Wars and the Essex again in the War of 1812.
Notes: Map on lining-papers.
"First edition."