The auxiliary cruiser Yankee was manned largely by New York naval reservists, many of them young professional men. Number Five of the after port gun records going into commission, learning to handle the guns, cruising for prizes and coming under fire off Cuba in 1898, with all the comedy of amateurs learning to be sailors.
A vivid, lively record of the war of 1898, reissued for the Boy Scouts’ library. Download the free EPUB.