Table of Contents

Preface
Ship and Engine Builders
The Sail Navy, 1775-1853
The Old Steam Navy, 1814-1876
The New Navy, 1883-1990
Bibliography
Hull Number Index
Index

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This authoritative register brings a wealth of detailed information about all the major combat ships in the U.S. Navy--from the sail frigates of the Revolution to today's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines.

About the Author

K. JACK BAUER was a noted historian, long associated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was the author of Ships of the Navy, 1775-1969 (1969), A Maritime History of the United States (1988), co-editor of United States Navy and Marine Corps Bases (Greenwood Press, 1985) with Paolo Coletta, and editor of The New American State Papers: Naval Affairs, 1789-1860 (1981), among others.

STEPHEN S. ROBERTS received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago in 1976 and is currently a naval historian. He is concerned especially with the history of naval technology since the eighteenth century. He is editor of The Development of a Modern Navy: French Naval Policy, 1781-1860 by Theodore Ropp (1987).