Details the life and experiences of Captain Frederick Francis, one of Singapore's most decorated sailors.

The heart of this book is the remarkable Civil War diary of the author’s great-grandfather, William Benjamin Gould, an escaped slave who served in the United

Fahey was a 24-year-old garbage-truck driver when he enlisted in the Navy on Oct. 3, 1942, and became a seaman first class on the USS Montpelier. During almost

Serving on Admiral Byrd's team for the Antarctic Expedition at the end of WW II was a privilege that only a handful of sailors would enjoy. Experience first han

Diary of an American sailor who was a crew member on the First Fleet ship the Sirius; his impressions of Sydney, the Aborigines, and Norfolk Island (pp 79-113)