The American Neptune, 1948. Volume VIII Nos. 1-4. by Whitehill, Walter Muir, editor. [Colcord, Lincoln] [McGiffin, Philo]

American Neptune, Salem, Mass. [Anthoensen Press / Meriden Gravure], 1948. Periodical. Includes obituary of Lincoln Colcord; Henry Eckford's 'United States' of 1831; Designs of our First Frigates; Struggle for the Cape Henry Lighthouse, 1721-91; Early Great Lakes Steamboats-- Battle of Windmill & Afterward, 1838-42 [&] Warships & Iron Hulls; Chanteying Aboard American Ships; Early Description of Birch-Bark Canoes; Emigrant Ship to Copra Hulk. The Iron Bark 'Bougainville'; Exodus 1947, an Interim Report on the Career of Steamship 'President Warfield'; Folklore and Anthropological Literature as a Source for Maritime Historians; Speed, Size, and Model; Contract for Building a Bark, 1880; Life Preserving Dress; Maine West India Trade; Early History of Midway Islands; Ships that Tested Blockade of Carolina Ports; 'Elegant' Steamboat 'Commonwealth'; Naval Action on Lake Champlain, 1776; Captain Philo McGiffin at Battle of Yalu; American Four-Mast Bark 'Star of Poland', ex-'Acme'; Canoe from the Penobscot River; Seventeenth-Century Chart Publisher... Smith & Ebbs Ltd., Printers and Stationers; 'Flying Cloud' v. 'Andrew Jackson'; New Light on 'Flying Cloud' v. 'Andrew Jackson'; Old Light on the New Light; Grain Race of 1861; Index to Volume VIII. 262 p., plates, diagrams, maps, 25.5 cm.; blue-printed grey wrappers, minor wear; VG+. Single issue, $10. Stock#28828.