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Current Issue: August 2008 Volume 22, Number 4

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With the Royal Navy’s White Ensign flying above the Stars and Stripes, the defeated frigate USS Chesapeake is led into Halifax, Nova Scotia, by her captor, HMS Shannon, on 6 June 1813.

A British View of the Naval War of 1812 By Jeremy Black - Initially challenged on the high seas by oversized U.S. Navy frigates, the Royal Navy countered by implementing a tight blockade of American ports.

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Looking Back (Members Only)

By Paul Stillwell

On Our Scope

Richard G. Latture, Editor-in-Chief

In Contact (Members Only)

Naval History News (Members Only)

Historic Fleets (Members Only)

By Robert J. Cressman

Historic Aircraft (Members Only)

By Norman Polmar Author, Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet

A British View of the Naval War of 1812

By Jeremy Black

Initially challenged on the high seas by oversized U.S. Navy frigates, the Royal Navy countered by implementing a tight blockade of American ports.

'Perfect in Every Respect' (Members Only)

By Captain Stephen F. Davis Jr., U.S. Navy

In an August 1943 night battle that forever changed American destroyer tactics, six U.S. tin cans ambushed and decimated a Japanese force in the central Solomons Vella Gulf.

To the 1920 Olympics by Cruiser (Members Only)

By Robert Shenk

A team of U.S. Navy athletes got international exposureas well as plenty of adventurewhen they visited Europe to compete in the VII Olympiad.

'Halsey Knows the Straight Story' (Members Only)

By Alan P. Rems

In just over a year after its founding in 1942, the I Marine Amphibious Corps had five commanders, including Major General Charles D. Barrett, who died under mysterious circumstances.

'Out-Sputniking' the Soviets (Members Only)

By Carl LaVO

As the United States struggled to enter the space race in 1958, the U.S. Navy won a strategic undersea race when the USS Nautilus became the first submarine to reach the North Pole.

Commissary (Members Only)

By Chuck Veit

In December 1864, Yankee Sailors and Soldiers swooped down on tiny Pitch Landing, North Carolina, and scored a victory against the Army of Northern Virgina besieged at Petersburg.

Alliance-The Last Continental Navy Frigate (Members Only)

By Louis Arthur Norton

While commanded by a scoundrel, the Alliance infamously fired on the Bonhomme Richard as she battled HMS Serapis. But under capable leadership she also scored an important victory in the Revolutionary Wars last battle.

Book Reviews (Members Only)

Museum Report (Members Only)

By Robert McLaren

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