A Sailor's Log

by Wilson, Frederick T.; Reckner, James R.; Reckner, James R.; Reckner, James R.

• ISBN13: 9780873387828
• ISBN10: 0873387821
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr

Summary

Frederick T. Wilson was an engineer who carried the rank of first-class petty officer and served on one of the Navy's first modern battleships, the uss Oregon, at the turn of the twentieth century. The need for a U.S. naval fleet in the Pacific and East Asia was created by the acquisition of Guam and the Philippines from Spain and the annexation of Hawaii as a territory. The deployment of a significant naval force to the Asiatic Station following the victory at Manila Bay in 1898 brought Wilson there aboard the uss New Orleans. Wilson participated in the relief of the legations in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. On his way to the Pacific theater, fate intervened when his ship ran aground on an uncharted reef in the Gulf of Pechili and was sent to Japan for repairs. A Sailor's Log is Petty Officer Wilson's record of this cruise; his assignment on the Aisatic Station, including stops at Nagasaki, Kure, Japan, Woosung, China, Shanghai, and Hong Kong; and his return to the United States in September 1901. Wilson offers a rare uncensored picture of enlist

Author Biography

James R. Reckner is associate professor of history at Texas Tech University, where he is also director of the Vietnam Center.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
Prologue: To Asiatic Station	1	(47)
Manila	48	(16)
Nagasaki	64	(31)
Aground in the Yellow Sea	95	(31)
Kure, Japan	126	(37)
Woosung, China	163	(25)
Shanghai	188	(29)
Afloat and Ashore in Shanghai	217	(33)
Bolo-Men, Routine, and Discipline	250	(26)
Hong Kong	276	(32)
Amoy, China, and Yokohama	308	(20)
Homeward Bound	328	(26)
Epilogue	354	(6)
Notes	360	(21)
Bibliography	381	(3)
Index	384