combatant types, as well as plans, profiles, and numerous detailed photographs.

    Contents include: Sailing Alone Around the World, Voyage of the Destroyer, Rescue of Some Gilbert Islanders, Voyage of the Liberdade and the Aquidneck Correspondence.

    Today she is preserved as an historic monument on the River Thames in London.As part of the renowned Anatomy of the Ship series, this book provides the finest documentation of the Belfast, with a complete set of superb line drawings, supported by technical details and a record of the ship's service history.

    Commanded by her Danish-born father, the great sailing ship was the little girl's home until she was piped ashore to attend school in 1910."Based in San Francisco, it had ports of call ranging from the Pacific Northwest down to Peru. Between and during commercial voyages, the square-rigged craft was an enchanted world for [Burgess and hersister]. Among other pleasures, they watched flying fish play, romped on the quarterdeck, witnessed brawls among "crew members, studied natural maritime wildlife, reveled in rites of passage (as in first crossing the equator), and enjoyed a warm domestic existence in the captain's well-appointed quarters.. .."The author recollects her father as a ...domineering presence who refused to accompany his family to divine services; not until years later did she realize his muscular arms and chest bore a wealth of lusty tattoos. "Cogill evokes absorbing, human-scale aspects fin-de-siecle America."The author ends her memoirs with a quietly moving scene describing the mysterious on-board death of her father which, made all the more powerful in contrast with the idyllic tone of what has gone before, will bring cold chills. This unusual, elegantly written slice of a lost, adventurous era, illus- trated with 30 rare photographs, should become a classic.