CONTENTS

PAGE
[The Effrontery of Paul Jones][7]
HIS FIGHT WITH THE “DRAKE” AND DESCENT ON WHITEHAVEN
[A Struggle to the Death][24]
PAUL JONES’S FIGHT WITH THE “SERAPIS”
[The Terrier and the Mastiff][34]
NICHOLAS BIDDLE’S WONDERFUL FIGHT
[Decatur and the “Philadelphia”][46]
[The Biggest Little Fight in Naval History][56]
DECATUR AND THE TRIPOLITAN GUNBOATS
[A Double Encounter][73]
STEWART AND THE “CYANE” AND “LEVANT”
[The “Constitution” and the “Guerriere”][90]
[The “Wasp” and the “Frolic”][106]
[The “Constitution” and the “Java”][117]
[The Last of the “Essex”][132]
[The Captain of the Maintop][148]
[Cushing and the “Albemarle”][158]
[Somers and the “Intrepid”][170]
[The Passing of the Old Navy][181]
OLD SALTS AND NEW SAILORS. THE OLD SHIPS AND THE NEW
[Farragut in Mobile Bay][220]
[At the Naval Academy][231]
[Our Nation’s New Heroes][248]
[Heroes of the Deep][274]
OUR FISHING FLEET