A Civil War gunboat in Pacific waters
Subtitle: life on board USS Saginaw
By: Hans Konrad Van Tilburg ; foreword by James C. Bradford and Gene Allen Smith
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813035161
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A new ship for a new ocean; title: Seasoning on the China station; title: The Civil War on the Pacific Coast; title: Hard times on coastal patrol; title: Exploring Seward's icebox; title: Hawai'i and the end of the archipelago; title: The castaways of Ocean Island; title: Afterword : legacy and shipwrecks.