The American Neptune, 1945. Volume V nos. 1-4. by Whitehill, Walter Muir, M. V. Brewington, Howard I. Chapelle, Lincoln Colcord, Samuel Eliot Morison, editors - 1945

American Neptune Inc., Salem, Mass. [Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland], 1945. 'A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History.' Contents include (January) United States Fish Commission Steamer 'Albatross'; Early Great Lakes Steamboats. The 'Walk-in-the-Water'; Ship 'Martha''s Shopping Trip in the Mediterranean in 1801; Battle of Porto Praya, 1781; (April) Nathaniel Bowditch; 'Letters Taken in Prizes' 1778-1780; A Light-vessel of 1823 Built by Henry Eckford; Amphibious Operations in the Gulf of California, 1847-1848; Five-Masted Schooners; Square Sails and Raffees; (July) 'The Fleet'; Voyage of the Brig 'Nabob' from Boston to Batavia, Java, in 1833; Dismal Swamp Canal; Register Tonnage and Its Measurement; Mutton Spankers and Ringtail Topsails; (October) 'Mount Vernon''s Voyage from Batavia to Nagasaki in 1807; Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Museum of the East India Marine Society; Notes on Some New England Three-Masters; Dismal Swamp Canal Part II; Register Tonnage and its Measurement Part II; Index to Volumes I-V; preliminaries to Vol. V; Notes, Documents, Queries, Answers, News, Book Reports. Periodical. Four numbers consecutively paged, plates, diagrams, maps; 25.5 cm. Grey printed wraps, as issued; VG. Stock#32552.