Derek Law's Bibliography

Category: United States Merchant Marine

Name:	United States Merchant Marine
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Documents: 38

3699	SKATTEBOL, Lars. The Last Voyage of the Quien Sabe. ix, 255p., illus. New York: Harper, 1944. A tale of six months on a US registered merchantman with a crew of mixed nationalities, and with her name changed to preserve security. She was torpedoed on 14 November 1942 while alone in the South Atlantic and it was 17 days before her survivors were picked up.	view
3688	MACKENZIE, Colin. Sailors of Fortune. 190p., illus. New York: Dutton, 1944. An atmospheric popular account of life in the American Merchant Marine, with torpedoings in the Caribbean, South Atlantic convoys, and the Salerno landings.	view
3689	MANOLIS, Nicholas. We at Sea: The Epic of the American Mariner. 188p. New York: Anatolia, 1949. A personal but propaganda memoir of a dangerous trade.	view
3690	MINARIK, William H. Sailors, Subs and Senoritas. 349p. Boston: Branden, 1968. Based on the author's wartime diary. An earthy view of an American deckhand's life.	view
3692	MOORE, A. R. A Careless Word - A Needless Sinking: A History of the Staggering Losses Suffered by the US Merchant Marine, Both in Ships and Personnel during World War II. xii, 552p., bibliog., illus. New York: American Merchant Marine Museum, 1983. ISBN: 9997778464. A dictionary catalogue of ships and how they were lost, with some survivors' tales and casualty lists. Encyclopaedic.	view
3693	O' FLAHERTY, "Ferocious." Abandoned Convoy: US Merchant Marine in WWII. 87p. New York: Exposition, 1970. ISBN: 0682470856. An account of the PQ17 convoy is used to launch a brief attack on the management of the Merchant Marine.	view
3694	PALMER, M. B. We Fight with Merchant Ships. 307p., illus. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943. A description of the US Merchant Marine at war and a plea for more shipbuilding.	view
3695	POPPLE, Charles Sterling. Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) in World War II. xxviii, 340p., illus., index. New York: Standard Oil Company, 1952. More concerned with refining than maritime operations, which occupy some 40 pages.	view
3697	RIESENBERG, Felix. Sea War: The Story of the US Merchant Marine in World War II. 320p., illus., index. New York: Rinehart, 1956. Based on eyewitness accounts of events and presented as a human interest story.	view
3698	SCHOFIELD, William G. Eastward the Convoys. 240p., index. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1965. The war memoirs of an Armed Guard Commander serving on a US Atlantic merchantman, the Gulfwing, from 1941 to 1944. They are bitter-sweet in their tone.	view
3687	McCOY, Samuel Duff. Nor Death Dismay: A Record of Merchant Ships and Merchant Mariners in Time of War. ix, 248p. New York: Macmillan, 1948. The US Merchant Marine at war, as seen through the exploits of the American Export Line ships.	view
3700	STANDARD OIL COMPANY (New Jersey). Ships of the Esso Fleet in World War II. 536p., illus. New Jersey: Standard Oil Company, 1946. Records the fates of the 135 Standard Oil and Panama Transport Company tankers. Each ship is listed and examined alphabetically.	view
3701	TILLMAN, C. Engine Room Sea Stories. Oakland Calif.: [author], 1986. A tough laconic unionised engineer recalls his life in the 'thirties and 'forties. He had an active war mainly in the Atlantic and South Pacific.	view
3702	UNITED STATES. WAR SHIPPING ADMINISTRATION. Report of the War Shipping Administration to the President. 80p., illus. Washington: WSA, 1946. A profusely illustrated account.	view
3696	REMINICK, Gerald. Patriots and Heroes. 2 vols. Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon, 2000-2003. ISBN: 1889901148 (Vol. 1); ISBN: 1889901318 (Vol. 2) Using personal accounts, the author provides an overview of the experiences of U.S. Merchant Mariners in World War II, from enlistment and training, to participation in theaters of war around the globe. A separate chapter addresses D-Day operations.	view
3679	GIBBS, Archie. U Boat Prisoner: The Life Story of a Texas Sailor. 208p. New York: Mifflin, 1943. An American AB in the US Merchant Marine is torpedoed, rescued, then escapes and goes back to sea. A hyperbolic tale that was made into a Hollywood film.	view
3691	MOFFAT, Alexander W. A Navy Maverick Comes of Age, 1939–1945. 152p., illus., index. Middletown: Wesleyan UP, 1977. ISBN: 0819550159. The engaging anecdotal memoirs of a reserve officer who returned to the colours and served afloat and ashore in the Boston area in an active war which culminated in taking the surrender of four U-boats. An earlier version (assumed as no copy seen) was published in 1976 by the same publisher, entitled Maverick Navy (ISBN: 0819550000).	view
5115	NOLTE, Carl. Destination D-Day: A Voyage on the Jeremiah O’Brien. Welcome Home to San Francisco September 23, 1994. [vi], 57p., illus. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Chronicle, 1994. The last surviving Liberty ship sailed to England and Normandy to celebrate her part in the the celebrations for the fiftieth anniversary of D-Day. This short pamphlet reprints the newspaper reports made by the author before and during the trip and on the return voyage.	view
5143	COOPER, Malcolm. The Ocean Class of the Second World War. 144p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth; Annapolis, N.I.P., 2022. ISBN: 9781399015530. A fully illustrated and well researched account of these workhorses.	view
3677	ELLIOTT, George. Liberty Ships Eastward. 112p., illus. Portland, Me.: Provincial, 1996. ISBN: 0931675022. A young man's war on Atlantic, Arctic, and Mediterranean convoys, with original drawings by the author.	view
3668	BERRY, Bob. Gunners Get Glory: Lt. Bob Berry's Story of the Navy's Armed Guard. 293p., illus. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943. Ghosted by Lloyd Wendt, a journalist whose friend Berry served with the Armed Guard in merchantmen in the Atlantic, Pacific (including New Zealand), and in the invasion of Sicily.	view
3669	BILLY, George J. & BILLY, Christine M. Merchant Mariners at War: An Oral History of World War II. viii, 322p., bibliog., illus., index. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2008.ISBN: 0813032466. First-hand accounts of the wartime experiences of veterans who graduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy - the largest supplier of ships' officers in WWII. Gathered over more than a decade at the academy in Kings Point, New York, the interviews offer a unique portrait of the young officers.	view
3670	BROWNING, Robert M. US Merchant Vessel Casualties of World War II. [xxiv], 575p., bibliog., index. Annapolis: NIP, 1996. ISBN: 1557500878. A chronological list of casualties with details of the ship and of the events relating to the sinking.	view
3671	BUNKER, John. Heroes in Dungarees: The Story of the American Merchant Marine in World War II. xiv, 373p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis: NIP, 1995. ISBN: 1557500932. An uncritical anecdotal history which offers little in the way of analysis or research.	view
3672	CARSE, Robert. Lifeline: The Ships and Men of Our Merchant Marine at War. 189p., illus. New York: Morrow, 1943. How the Merchant Navy works and fights.	view
3673	CARSE, Robert. The Long Haul: The United States Merchant Service in World War II. 224p., illus., index. New York: Norton, 1965. A tribute to the men of the service, which is a general history fleshed out with accounts of individual triumphs and tragedies.	view
3674	COOPER, Sherod. Liberty Ship: The Voyages of the John W. Brown 1942–1946. xvi, 246p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis: NIP, 1997. ISBN: 1557501351. This ship made eight voyages in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. These are recounted in detail but well-set in context.	view
3675	CRUMP, Irving. Our Tanker Fleet. x, 244p., illus. New York: Dodd Mead, 1952. How tankers are crewed and operated, with many anecdotal tales of bravery, especially from WWII.	view
3676	DI PHILLIP, John. Gunner's Diary. 111p. Boston: Meador, 1946. Deals mainly with the exploits of a gun crew while serving aboard the S. M. Flager, an oil tanker owned by the Standard Oil Company.	view
3667	BEECHER, John. All Brave Sailors: The Story of the s.s. Booker T. Washington. 208p. New York: L. B. Fischer, 1945. The story of the first racially integrated ship in the US Merchant Marine. It therefore excited much interest. She was a Liberty ship which mainly took part in the Mediterranean landings.	view
3678	FARRAR, Frank. A Ship's Log Book. viii, 270p., illus. St. Petersburg, Fla.: Great Outdoors, 1988. ISBN: 0820010375. An exciting account of war and peace in the American Merchant Marine, including Arctic convoys. Well written record of an admirable merchant marine career.	view
3680	GLEICHAUF, Justin F. Unsung Sailors: The Naval Armed Guard in World War II. xviii, 432p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis: NIP, 1990. ISBN: 0870217704. 145,000 Americans saw service in the Armed Guard in some of the hardest fought convoy actions of the war. Full of anecdote but fills a gap in the literature.	view
3681	HOEHLING, A. A. The Fighting Liberty Ships: A Memoir. vii, 166p., bibliog., illus., index. Kent, Ohio: Kent State UP, 1990. ISBN: 1557503699. The author was a gunnery officer in the Naval Armed Guard and recounts his adventures on Liberty ships in the Atlantic, European, and Mediterranean theaters. Republished in paperback by the NIP in 1996.	view
3682	IVEY, W. P. (Bill). 'Er to 'Err: 'Ere bloometh the Rose. [33, 3, 191–226, 1–781, 9p.], illus., index. Birmingham, Ala: author, 1982. A meandering autobiographical tribute to the US Merchant Marine in which he served. Includes the 1950 index to US Merchant Marine casualties. The incomprehensible title reflects a badly typed, cyclostyled, and confused memoir. Starting as a deckhand in the thirties, he rose to become an officer and sailed from Murmansk convoys to the Pacific.	view
3683	JAFFEE, Walter W. The Last Liberty: The Biography of the s.s. Jeremiah O'Brien.[x], v, 490p., bibliog., illus., index. Palo Alto, Calif.: Glencannon, 1993. ISBN: 0963758608. Built between May and June 1943 in Portland, she carried her first Atlantic cargo in July. Almost 12 months of Atlantic convoys was followed by D-Day. In October she returned to New York and began carrying cargo into the Pacific and Indian Oceans. She was laid up in the Reserve Fleet in 1946 and rescued later for preservation.	view
3684	JOHNSON, Arthur Charles. With Pen and Powder in the Pleiades. 258p., frontis. Columbus: F. J. Heer Printing Co., 1945. The letters home from a US Naval Reserve Officer who served in the Armed Guard branch of the Navy as Captain of the gun crew on a Liberty ship. He served mainly in the Mediterranean in 1943–44, until killed by a gunshot wound in the middle of 1944.	view
3685	LIEBERMAN, Gerald F. The Sea Lepers. 349p. Garden City: Doubleday, 1971. Wartime experiences of trooping, by a Merchant Officer.	view
3686	McCORMICK, Harold J. Two Years behind the Mast: An American Landlubber at Sea in World War II. xii, 147p., bibliog., illus., index. Kansas: Sunflower UP, 1991. ISBN: 0897451384. A Midwesterner who joined the Armed Guard and spent two years as gunnery officer on three merchantmen in the Atlantic and Mediterranean.	view