Six Frigates: The Origian of the US Navy

[Onkel Neal]

New review by Mighty Subnuts!

Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy (http://www.subsim.com/books/book_frigates.htm)

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[Bill Nichols]

I put this on my Christmas wish-list, which my wife totally ignored :cry:

Guess I'll have to take charge and place an order with Amazon (via the Subsim link, of course!)

:arrgh!:

[Subnuts]

Just as an aside, the British release has a completely different title:

Six Frigates: How Piracy, War and British Supremacy at Sea Gave Birth to the World's Most Powerful Navy

[Camaero]

This sounds pretty cool. I am putting it on my birthday list!:rock:

[Sailor Steve]

I read the review earlier and noted a big mistake:
The act allocated the then-colossal sum of $666,666 towards the construction of six powerful new frigates, four 44-gun and two 36-gun - the United States, President, Congress, Constitution, Constellation, and Chesapeake.
There were three of each: Constitution, President and United States were the three 44s; Chesapeake, Congress and Constellation were the 36s.