U.S. COAST GUARD (PATRICK E. RAMSEY)

Friendly Target

By Master Chief William R. Wells II, U.S. Coast Guard (Retired)
June 1998
Coast Guard, Navy, and Air Force operators learn hard lessons in Vietnam.

Airships on Canvas

By Russ Porter
June 1998
Wisconsin steamship and railroad artist Russ Porter also has captured airships in oilhere, the British airship R-34; the U.S. Navy’s Shenandoah over the West Coast in October 1924 ...

Memories of the Oregon

June 1998
Images of the Oregon live in the minds of battleship enthusiasts—and in photos such as these, including a close-up of her after turret and (insets, left to right) the crew ...

Windfalls of War

By Harold D. Langley
June 1998
Controversies surrounding the allocation of bounty and prize money among the naval victors of Manila Bay and Santiago after the Spanish-American War played a role in halting the monetary awards.

Through the Eyes of a Boy

By Paul Stillwell
June 1998
Time travel long has been a staple of fiction. However, as appealing as it might be to project ourselves physically to another era, it remains an unrealized fantasy. But mentally—ah ...

In Contact

June 1998
“What Really Sank the Maine?” (See T. B. Allen, pp. 30-39, March/April 1998 Naval History) Ib S. Hansen Mr. Allen has provided a well-worded article, but it obfuscates some key ...

Book Reviews

Reviewed by Chester G. Hearn & Norman Polmar
June 1998
Monitor: The Story of the Legendary Civil War Ironclad and the Man Whose Invention Changed the Course of History James Tertius deKay. New York: Walker and Company, 1997. 247 pp ...

The Largest Seaplanes

By Norman Polmar, Author, Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet
June 1998
The Martin-built Mars flying boats were the world’s largest operational seaplanes and the Navy’s largest World War II-era aircraft. Although designed to be patrol bombers, all served operationally as long-range ...

Historic Fleets

By A. D. Baker III, Editor, Combat Fleets of the World
June 1998
U.S. Navy destroyers and what are now known as frigates have from the outset been named for individuals distinguished by their service—in war or peace— to the Navy and the ...

Naval History News

June 1998
“What Really Sank the Maine?”—Live Regular readers of Naval History know that its March/April issue featured a synopsis of a report conducted by Advanced Marine Enterprises, Inc., for National Geographic ...

Salty Talk

By Commander Tyrone Martin, U.S. Navy (Retired)
June 1998
A sailing ship of yore had “main engines” made of canvas and rope. A full-rigged (e.g., three-masted) ship might be able to spread as much as an acre of canvas ...

Lisbon’s Museu de Marinha

By Joseph F. Callo
June 1998
Lisbon’s Museu de Marinha illustrates how the sea power of the relatively small nation of Portugal had a defining impact on world history. The Museu was founded in 1863 by ...

Navy Yarns

By Captain Roy C. Smith III, U.S. Navy (Retired)
June 1998
Early in the 1950s, Commander Worth Scanland (USNA ’34) was taking a submarine division west across the Mariana Trench and thought it would be a great idea if all hands ...