Yachts

1935 · 63571 — Cambridge MA: Crimson Printing Co. 1935. 8vo. 268 pp. Lozenge illust. on title photo frontisp. photo plates throughout text illustrations. Cobalt-blue publisher’s cloth gilt lettering front cover & spine slight shelfwear w/ d.j. wraparound cover art of the Yankton minor scuffing 1 closed tear minor edgewear dustsoiling still NF/VG- copy w/ former ownership markings on ffep. First edition of this uncommon maritime account of the career life of the USS Yankton which began life as the steam yacht Cleopatra was purchased and reported for duty as a gunboat with the North Atlantic Fleet in 1898 engaged in shelling several Spanish gunboats and later pursued the Spanish Auxiliary Cruiser Alfonso XII. She later served as a survey ship in Cuba was tender to the USS Maine the Atlantic Fleet battleship and accompanied the Great White Fleet around the World and later as tender during World War I in the North Atlantic. She was decommissioned and sold in 1921 and spent two years as a rum runner eventually being seized and put back into the US Merchant Fleet in 1923. She eventually ended up being broken up and her hulk served as a public pool. Scarce in original dustjacket. Crimson Printing Co., hardcover