United States Revenue and Coast Guard Cutters in Naval Warfare, 1790-1918

ISBN-13: 9781476671284 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str.

Thomas P. Ostrom; David H. Allen

Opis

Covers the history of the US Coast Guard from 1790 under Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, when the Service was called the US Revenue Marine, to World War I, during which the naval agency, then called the US Revenue Cutter Service, was combined with the US Life-Saving Service to form the US Coast Guard in 1915.