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    The Voyage of the Oregon from San Francisco to Santiago in 1898
    The Voyage of the Oregon from San Francisco to Santiago in 1898
    The Voyage of the Oregon from San Francisco to Santiago in 1898
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    The Voyage of the Oregon from San Francisco to Santiago in 1898

    By R. Cross

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Voyage of the Oregon from San Francisco to Santiago in 1898 - R. Cross

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Voyage of the Oregon from San Francisco

      to Santiago in 1898, by R. Cross

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      Title: The Voyage of the Oregon from San Francisco to Santiago in 1898

      Author: R. Cross

      Release Date: June 7, 2008 [EBook #25723]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VOYAGE OF THE OREGON IN 1898 ***

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      THE VOYAGE OF THE

      OREGON

      FROM SAN FRANCISCO

      TO SANTIAGO IN

      1898

      AS TOLD BY

      ONE OF THE CREW

      PRIVATELY PRINTED

      THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS

      BOSTON

      1908

      [One hundred and twenty-five copies printed]

      To the Reader

      ALMOST ten years have passed since the country followed, in scanty telegram from port to port, the Oregon speeding down one side of a continent and up the other to Bahia; then came two anxious, silent weeks when apprehension and fear pictured four Spanish cruisers with a pack of torpedo boats sailing out into the west athwart the lone ship's course, the suspense ending only when tidings came of her arrival at Jupiter Inlet; then off Santiago, after a month of waiting, there is the outcoming of Cervera's squadron, when this splendid ship, with steam all the time up, leaps to the front of her sisters of the fleet, like an unleashed hound, and joins the historic company of the Bon Homme Richard, the Constitution, the Hartford, in our naval annals. From the start at the Golden Gate to the beaching of the Colon is a succession of events full of thrilling merit and vitality which official bickerings and envyings cannot change or obscure.

      The story has been told from the standpoint of the quarter-deck, the court room, and the department bureau. Here we have the artless journal of an unlettered sailor, written between decks, without the least notion that it would ever be read apart from his own family circle. The pages of his record give an insight into the mutual regard and confidence existing between the captain and his crew which made the voyage the memorable achievement that it was. Admiral Clark would be made of stolid stuff were he indifferent to the enthusiasm and loyalty manifest in the narrative in various ways, in none, however, more hearty and sincere than in the endearing designations of the old gent and the old man. He was in fact fifty-four years of age when he became captain of the Oregon. Shortly before, he had been on special duty in the North Pacific at the head of a fleet of seven men-of-war, at that time the largest cruising fleet in our navy since the conflict with the Confederacy. Starting as midshipman at the Naval Academy in 1860, he had seen thirty-eight years of active and varied service in all seas.

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