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The captain who burned his ships : Captain Thomas Tingey, USN, 1750-1829 / Gordon S. Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Gordon S., 1936-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tingey, Thomas, 1750-1829.
- Tingey, Thomas.
- United States. Navy--Officers--Biography.
- United States.
- Washington Navy Yard--History.
- Washington Navy Yard.
- Ship captains--United States--Biography.
- Ship captains.
- United States--History, Naval--To 1900.
- Washington (D.C.)--Biography.
- Washington (D.C.).
- Washington (D.C.)--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (214 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Captain Thomas Tingey, USN, 1750-1829
- Place of Publication:
- Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is the first biography of Captain Thomas Tingey, who was a key figure in the development of the early U.S. Navy. Having come to America after a short service in the Royal Navy, Tingey contributed importantly to the growth of the American Navy, but was then obliged to burn the Washington Navy Yard in 1814 to prevent it from falling into the hands of British invaders. This is at the same time a history of the first quarter-century of the Washington Navy Yard, which Tingey commanded for that period, and of the transition of the young Navy from an object of partisan discord to an honored defender of a growing and increasingly self-confident nation. The book looks at Tingey's contributions to navy yard procedures and practices, his civic role in the budding city of Washington, the dramatic events of 1814, and the rebuilding of the yard as a major technical center for the navy.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. A New American
- 2. Merchant Captain
- 3. A New Naval Uniform
- 4. A Shaky Start to a New Command
- 5. Building the Yard
- 6. Managing the Work
- 7. At Home, In Town
- 8. Ships or Boats
- 9. War and Disaster
- 10. Rebuilding
- 11. Patriarch
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-193) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61251-398-0
- OCLC:
- 863717187
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