Pike & Cutlass: Hero Tales of Our Navy
Transcriber’s Notes:
PIKE & CUTLASS
HERO TALES OF OUR NAVY
WRITTEN & ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE GIBBS
PHILADELPHIA & LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1900
Copyright, 1898 and 1899, by The Curtis Publishing Company
Copyright, 1899, by J. B. Lippincott Company
Electrotyped and Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U. S. A.
TO THE CADETS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
The writer expresses thanks for their courtesy to the editors of “Lippincott’s Magazine” and the editors of the “Saturday Evening Post,” of Philadelphia, in which periodicals several of these Hero Tales have been printed. He also acknowledges his indebtedness for many valuable historical facts to “Cooper’s Naval History;” “History of the Navy,” by Edgar S. Maclay; “History of Our Navy,” by John R. Spears; “Twelve Naval Captains,” by Molly Elliot Seawell; “American Naval Heroes,” by John Howard Brown; “Naval Actions of the War of 1812,” by James Barnes; and to many valuable works and papers in the archives of the Library of the Navy Department at Washington. Thanks are due the Art Department of the “Saturday Evening Post” and the Art Department of “Collier’s Weekly” for their permission to reprint many of the drawings herein.
GEORGE GIBBS.
August 15, 1899.
George Gibbs
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NOTE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
THE EFFRONTERY OF PAUL JONES
A STRUGGLE TO THE DEATH
THE TERRIER AND THE MASTIFF
DECATUR AND THE “PHILADELPHIA”
A DOUBLE ENCOUNTER
THE “CONSTITUTION” AND THE “GUERRIERE”
THE “WASP” AND THE “FROLIC”
THE “CONSTITUTION” AND THE “JAVA”
THE LAST OF THE “ESSEX”
THE CAPTAIN OF THE MAINTOP
CUSHING AND THE “ALBEMARLE”
SOMERS AND THE “INTREPID”
THE PASSING OF THE OLD NAVY
OLD SALTS AND NEW SAILORS
THE OLD SHIPS AND THE NEW
FARRAGUT IN MOBILE BAY
AT THE NAVAL ACADEMY
OUR NATION’S NEW HEROES
DOES SCHOLARSHIP COUNT IN WAR?
TAYLOR AND EVANS AS SCHOOL-MATES
HOW CAPTAIN EVANS SAVED HIS LEG
SIGSBEE AS A PRACTICAL JOKER
THE BRAVE COMMANDER OF THE “WINSLOW”
THE MAN WHO NEVER KNEW FEAR
ONLY NAVAL OFFICER KILLED IN THE WAR
ROOSEVELT SAVED BAGLEY FOR THE NAVY
CLARK’S HEROISM AT THE BATTLE OF MOBILE BAY
POPULARITY OF CAPTAIN PHILIP AS A CADET
THE VERSATILITY OF ADMIRAL SAMPSON
BLUE, WHO DISCOVERED CERVERA’S FLEET
YOUNG DEWEY AS A FIGHTER
THE UNRECOGNIZED HEROES OF THE WAR
THE REAL BRAINS OF THE WAR
FILLING THE DUKE’S SHOES WITH MUCILAGE
SCOUTING IN THE ENEMY’S COUNTRY
HEROES OF THE DEEP
WHEN THE SNOW MELTS
WAVING GODSPEED TO THE FISHER-FOLK
IN THE EXCITEMENT OF THE FIRST CATCH
HANDLING THE TRAWLS
A LONELY NIGHT ON THE BROAD ATLANTIC
WHEN THE DAY’S WORK IS DONE
WHEN A STEAMER LOOMS UP IN THE FOG
THE COURAGE OF THE UNNAMED HEROES
FOR FIVE DAYS ADRIFT AND STARVING
WHERE THE COD ABOUND
WHEN THE SCHOONERS MOVE UP THE HARBOR
