Navy/Nautical from The Personal Navigator

Kentfield, CA: M. Ettlinger Co., New York, 1908. 13.9 x 8.9 cm. Color postcard shows men in wrestling match on USS Kearsarge, surrounded by many sailors. Handwritten message on card: Kentfield (Cal.) May 8, '08. Yes the fleet is here & great time we are having. Biggest parade Frisco ever had. Population doubled. I was about ten ft.… Read more about this item

M.L. Metrochrom, ca. 1909. 13.9 x 8.9 cm. Color postcard shows USS Idaho (BB-24) at anchor with full dress flags from stem to stern. View is of starboard side of the battleship. Idaho was commissioned in 1908 and did not take part in the 1907-09 world cruise of the Great White Fleet, but joined them at the final Fleet… Read more about this item

Taunton, MA: A.C Bosselman & Co., New York, 1911. 13.9 x 8.9 cm. Color postcard shows crew of USS Rhode Island, all in dress whites, seated and standing before No. 1 gun turret, also standing on No. 2 turret, and in platforms on main mast. Rhode Island was one of the battleships that made the historic cruise of the… Read more about this item

1882. 17.5 x 24.5 cm. Graphic presentation shows relative size of shipping fleet in tons; Size of armies and navies in numbers of men. Great Britain and Ireland led the world in shipping, with 3,621,650 tons under sail; 3,335,215 under steam, with U.S. second with 2,366,132 under sail, 1,221,206 under steam. Siam had 20,930 tons, all sail.… Read more about this item

Norfolk, VA: U.S. Navy, 1933. 15 x 23 cm. Description of school, list of other schools at Training Station near Norfolk, VA. Qualifications for entrance. Course of Study, five terms, 24 weeks. Daily routine, 8 am to 4:30 pm, Saturday 8 to 11:45 am. Liberty every other day. Dress parade Fridays. Paper leaflet, good. . Catalogs: Navy/Nautical.

Philadelphia, PA: Historical Publishing Co, 1898. 35 x 28 cm. This series has been prepared for the public, eagerly devouring whatever news is published about our Navy. Photos of Ship Tender Boat Fern, which has been conveying supplies to the starving Cubans. Protected cruisers Minneapolis, San Francisco, Atlanta, Raleigh, Baltimore and Boston. Battleships Oregon, Massachusetts and Texas.… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, PA: Historical Publishing Co, 1898. 35 x 28 cm. This series has been prepared for the public, eagerly devouring whatever news is published about our Navy. Photos of funeral of victims of the Maine disaster, Capt. Sigsbee, former captain of USS Maine; Court of Inquiry in session; Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, consul General of Cuba. Photo… Read more about this item

New York, NY: The Free Press, 2002. 14 x 21.5 cm. Story of a primitive American submarine which sailed from Boston on August 30, 1920 on her first cruise, under command of Lieutenant Commander Charles M. ""Savvy"" Cooke, Jr. Forty-hour ordeal of the crew after it flooded and rammed into the bottom. Story of heroism and of heroes, written… Read more about this item

Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 1943. 15.5 x 23.4 cm. How the Navy Department is organized; shore establishment; shipboard organization; Disciplinary system. Flexible cloth book, dark blue, cover printing faded, some pencil underlining in Disciplinary section of book, good. . Catalogs: Navy/Nautical.

Philadelphia, PA: Historical Publishing Co, 1898. 35 x 28 cm. This series has been prepared for the public, eagerly devouring whatever news is published about our Navy. Photos of Spanish battleship Pelayo, Spanish cruisers Almirante Oquendo and Viscaya. Photos of crew of cruiser New York, deck crew of Yorktown, ship's company of Maine, and photo of a… Read more about this item