Steam Coffin: Captain Moses Rogers and the Steamship Savannah Break the Barrier

One of the great events in American, and indeed world, maritime history oc- curred in the summer of 1819, when the American steamship Savannah, com- manded by Captain Moses Rogers, be- came the first steam-powered vessel to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Its pioneer voyage from Savannah, Georgia, to Liverpool, England, in May and June 1819 is sometimes mentioned as an epochmaking event that marked the coming age of the steamship

Luce\u27s Idea of the Naval War College

A century ago, Rear Admiral Stephen B. Luce wrote a number of vigorous articles to explain his views on naval education and to define the purpose and character of the Naval War College

Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400–1800

Globalization, as a form of worldwide economic expansion and global interac- tion, can trace its origins back more than five hundred years to the expan- sion of Europe and to the first Euro- pean maritime empire, established by Portugal. From this beginning, the story of globalization is traced through the better-known eras of Spanish, Dutch, French, and British maritime domi- nance to our present modern phase of more sophisticated global interaction. Although the earlier maritime empires were based on separate, competing maritime economies rather than the current ideal of a single global econ- omy, these earlier examples of develop- ment are important to understand in terms of their limitations and successes. Among these maritime empires, the history of Portugal’s contribution has been the least well known to the anglophone world

Eyes of the Admiralty: J. T. Serres—an Artist in the Channel Fleet, 1799–1800

For centuries, the port of Brest in northwestern France has been the chief naval base and dockyard for French na- val operations in the North Atlantic and the Channel. For Britain, during the Napoleonic Wars—as well as in all the maritime wars between Britain and France in 1689 and 1815—the French Brest squadron was a central threat to the Royal Navy. British naval strategy to counter this threat had a number of ele- ments. The Royal Navy’s Channel Squadron had, as a primary duty, the blockade of Brest

The Evolution of the U.S. Navy\u27s Maritime Strategy

The Naval War College Press is pleased to republish and make more broadly available an essay that had become a standard reference work for those few fortunate enough to be both cleared for and fascinated by the evolution of postwar American strategy. This edition reproduces the Hattendorf analysis as it was first presented and published in 1989.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/usnwc-newport-papers/1019/thumbnail.jp

Sky and Ocean Joined: The U.S. Naval Observatory, 1830–2000,

In this beautifully produced, albeit very expensive volume, Steven Dick of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., has written the fascinating story of the origins and development of the Navy’s and the nation’s oldest scientific organization. It is a fascinating and well written story that ranges from the establishment of the observatory in 1830, as part of the Navy’s Depot of Charts and Instruments under Lieutenant Louis Goldsborough, to the sixteen and-a-half-year tenure of the longest- serving superintendent, Matthew Fontaine Maury, who led when it was first designated the National Observatory