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The history of our Navy from its origin to the present day, 1775-1897, vol. 3 (of 4)

Chapter 20: Transcriber’s Notes
By John Randolph Spears
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About This Book

A sequence of chapter-length narratives recounts early American naval operations, emphasizing adventurous ocean cruises, single-ship encounters, prize capture, and inland lake campaigns. The text examines the conversion of merchant and whaling craft into cruisers, the tactics and hardships of small-ship combat, blockades, and clashes occurring in neutral harbors, along with episodes of ships cornered or destroyed. Supporting maps, diagrams, and many illustrations clarify maneuvers, harbor scenes, and life aboard ship, while additional sections address prisoner experiences, shipbuilding and refitting challenges, and the logistical demands of sustaining naval action.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.

The illustration between pages 116 and 121 was printed as a two-page spread.

Several illustrations are not included in the List of Illustrations.

Page 48: The date given for when the Essex was built (1779) is incorrect.

The Transcriber copied the index from Volume IV. It was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references. Most of the references are to pages in the other three volumes of this series; all four volumes are available at no charge at Project Gutenberg:

Volume    I: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71794
Volume   II: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71795
Volume  III: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71796
Volume  IV: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71797

In the original book, the index entries for "Biddle, Captain Nicholas" referring to Volume II. actually refer to his nephew, "Biddle, James", and some of those are in Volume III. In this ebook, those entries have been corrected, but the index may contain other errors.