Issue
Featured Articles
Sea Power Confronts The Twenty-first Century
Author: Nathan Miller
An Interview With Edward L. Beach
The captain who first took a submarine around the world underwater looks at the U.S. Navy past and present and tells us what we must learn from the Falklands war
When Should We Retire?
Author: William Graebner
Twentieth-century answers to that question have much less to do with the health and happiness of the retiree than we have been led to believe
The Inland Printer
Author: Patricia Frantz Kery
was the first magazine in America to change its cover for every issue. And these covers may still be the best graphic art magazine has ever produced.
The Tempest
Author: Avery Kolb
The storm that wrecked the Virginia-bound ship Sea Venture in 1609 inspired a play by Shakespeare— and the survivors’ tribulations may well have sown the first seeds of democracy in the New World
What It Was Like To Be Shot Up By ‘old Ironsides’
Author: Daphne D. C. Pochin Mould
The fascinating contents of a newly discovered document of the War of 1812
Masters Of The Merchant Marine
Author: Robert Uhl
We built a merchant marine despite the opposition of the Royal Navy, went on to develop the most beautiful of all sailing ships, and held our supremacy for years. But how do we measure up today?
A Painter Of Floating Property
Author: Robert Uhl
Antonio Jacobsen, the most prolific of all American marine artists
Henry Francis Du Pont And The Invention Of Winterthur
Author: Walter Karp
How a shy millionaire’s peculiar genius transformed his “country place” into an unparalleled showcase of American furnishings
A HERITAGE PRESERVED
The Great North Sea Mine Barrage
Author: Daniel P. Mannix 3d
An extraordinary World War I naval operation is recounted by the commander of a decaying coastal steamer crammed with a terrifying new explosive
The Essex Disaster
Author: Walter Karp
She was the first whaleship ever sunk by her prey. But that’s not why she’s remembered.