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    Some Stories of Old Ironsides
    Some Stories of Old Ironsides
    Some Stories of Old Ironsides
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    Some Stories of Old Ironsides

    By Holloway Halstead Frost

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    Holloway Halstead Frost born in Brooklyn, New York, was an American World War I Navy officer and Navy Cross recipient. Frost was a member of the U.S. Naval Academy class of 1910. A widely published author, his work ranged the gamut of naval subjects, from history to operational analysis to ship-handling. His naval career was as distinguished as his literary; he not only was a designated naval aviator, but was also qualified for command in submarines. He was awarded the Navy Cross for his World War I service as aide to Commander, American Patrol Detachment, Atlantic Fleet, a billet in which he played a significant role in developing the tactics of surface and air forces in combined operations against submarines.

    Commander Frost died January 26, 1935 at Kansas City, Missouri, while a member of the staff of the Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisheranboco
    Release dateJul 7, 2017
    ISBN9783736419971
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      Some Stories of Old Ironsides - Holloway Halstead Frost

      Table of Contents

      SOME STORIES OF OLD IRONSIDES

      SCENE I. ENTER THE CONSTITUTION

      SCENE II. EXIT THE PHILADELPHIA

      SCENE III. PREBLE ATTACKS TRIPOLI

      SCENE I. THE FIGHT WITH THE GUERRIERE

      SCENE II. AND NOW FOR THE JAVA

      SCENE III. THE LAST FIGHT

      EPILOGUE

      SOME STORIES OF

      OLD IRONSIDES

      By Commander Holloway H. Frost, U. S. Navy

      Author of We Build a Navy

      U. S. NAVAL INSTITUTE

      ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND

      DESIGNED BY GEORGE BANTA PUBLISHING COMPANY

      MENASHA, WISCONSIN

      From a painting by M. Carne

      Preble’s First Attack on Tripoli

      The Constitution (large ship right center foreground) leading the attack on Tripoli, August 3, 1804.

      From a painting by C. R. Patterson

      Old Ironsides

      ACT I

      In the Mediterranean

      SCENE I. ENTER THE CONSTITUTION

      On a September day in 1803 an American frigate bowled along the rocky Spanish coast toward Gibraltar. From her bluff bows curled back a foamy wave. Above the blue waters rose a gracefully proportioned black hull. Around it, halfway up from the water line, ran a broad white stripe. This was broken at regular intervals by the dark squares of the gun ports. Spars tapered aloft. White rectangles of billowing canvas completed a picture of beauty unsurpassed on the Seven Seas. Such was the United States ship Constitution. Joshua Humphreys, naval constructor, had done his work well.

      Watchers on the famous Rock might have noted, had the beauty of this strange ship gained their full attention, that from the mizzen truck flew the broad blue pennant of a commodore. His name was then unknown. It is not too well known even now. But as time passes the conviction grows that Edward Preble should be classed in the first rank of our naval commanders. He was soon to prove that he was every inch a commodore. His pennant flew from a splendid ship, but one which had as yet no tradition of victory. Edward Preble was to begin that long series of successful

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