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Hard Aground - The Wreck of the USS Tennessee and the Rise of the US Navy (Paperback)
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Hard Aground - The Wreck of the USS Tennessee and the Rise of the US Navy (Paperback)
Series: Maritime Currents: History and Archaeology
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Three intertwined stories highlighting the many challenges the US
Navy faced during strategic and material evolutionHard Aground
brings together three intertwined stories documenting the US Navy's
strategic and matEriel evolution following the end of the Civil War
through the First World War. These incidents had lasting
consequences for how the navy would modernize itself throughout the
rest of the twentieth century. The first story focuses on the
reconstruction of the US Navy following the swift and near-total
dismantling of the Union Navy infrastructure after the Civil War.
This reconstruction began with barely enough time for the navy's
campaigns in the Spanish-American War, and for its role in the
First World War. Jampoler argues that the federal government
discovered that the fleet requested by the navy, and paid for by
Congress, was the wrong fleet. Focus was on battleships and
cruisers rather than destroyers and other small combat vessels
needed to hunt submarines and serve as convoy escorts. The second
story relates the short, tragic life of the USS Tennessee (later
renamed Memphis), one of the steel-hulled ships of the new Armored
Cruiser Squadron that was a centerpiece of the navy's modernization
effort. The USS Tennessee was ordered on two unusual missions in
the early months of World War I, long before the United States
formally entered the war. These little know missions and the sudden
destruction of the ship by a storm surge in the Caribbean serves as
the centerpiece of the story. Threaded through the narrative are
biographical sketches of the principal players in the drama that
unfolded following the ship's demise, including two of Tennessee's
commanding officers: Vice Admiral Sims, who commanded the US Navy
squadrons deployed to Europe in support of the Royal Navy; Rear
Admiral William Caperton, who commanded the Caribbean squadron
before the Memphis (formerly the Tennessee) was lost; Charles Pond,
squadron commander during the wreck; and the American ambassador to
the Ottoman court, President Wilson's enthusiastic supporter, Henry
Morgenthau. Jampoler concludes with an account of how the USS
Tennessee's destruction prompted fierce deliberations about the US
Navy's operations and chains of command for the remainder of the
First World War and the high-level political wrangling inside the
Department of the Navy immediately after the war, as civilian
appointees and senior officers wrestled to reshape the department
in their image.
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