Title: White-Jacket
Description: In the year 1843 I shipped as Ordinary seaman on 
board of a United States frigate, then lying in a harbour 
of the Pacific Ocean. After remaining in this frigate for 
more than a year, I was discharged from the service upon 
the vessel s arrival home. My man-of-war experiences 
and observations are incorporated in the present volume.
Subjects: Fiction, Sailors, Naval History, Flagellation, Naval discipline, Warships, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, historical, Fiction, sea stories, Fiction, historical, general
Places: United States, Peru
Time periods: 19th century