Young, L.S.:

$950 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

THE CRUISE OF THE U.S. FLAGSHIP "OLYMPIA" FROM 1895 TO 1899. FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO MANILA BAY. An interesting account of a Pacific cruise of the U.S. Flagship, Olympia, during the Spanish-American War. The Olympia visited California, various Japanese and Chinese ports (including Hakodate, Nagasaki, Yokosuka, Hong Kong, and Shanghai), the Philippines, and Russia, and was also involved in the capture of Manila. Part of the book is comprised of issues of the ship's own newsletter, The "Bounding Billow," original issues of which had been printed while the Olympia was at sea, and which recorded the activities of the crew on board ship and at port. Individual issues of The "Bounding Billow" are uncommon in the market - the present volume brings together all seven issues. Delightfully illustrated with halftones of sailors, ports visited, Manila street scenes, American naval vessels, and the like. Also includes a frontispiece portrait of Commodore George Dewey. "Young was a naval officer assigned to the Olympia on its pre-war Far East cruise to ports in Russia, Japan, China, and finally Hong Kong where the commander Commodore George Dewey received information on the destruction of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898. The first part of this work is a short history of the Olympia's Far East cruise, its role as the flagship of the American naval force at the Battle of Manila (May 1, 1898), and its naval siege of Manila until the arrival of American forces from San Franci

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