The Marvel Book of American Ships

vi, 391 pp. With 12 color plates and over 400 illustrations from photographs. CONTENTS: The Happy Ship; Our Undersea Fighters; Birth of Superdreadnought; All Around a Battleship; The Queen of the Sea; The Destroyer; The Policeman of the Seven Seas; The Liner is a Lady; Square-Riggers and Fore-and-Afters; Motorboats for Fun or War; American Yachting; The Freight Carriers of the American Marine; Our Nautical Training Ships; The Making of a Man-o'-War's-Man; When the Ships Go South ; The Fleet Has Its Train; How the Ships Talk; When Fleet Went Round World; Sentinels of the Sea; Following Our Ships Through the Panama Canal; The Fleet at Battle Practice; Big Guns and Little Ones; Fighting Ships That Fly; The Soldiers of the Sea; Heroes of the Coast Guard; The United States Naval Academy; Athletics in the Fleet; Sailormen and Their Pets; Ceremonies and Uniforms; Where the Ships Nest; Seven Great Sea Fights; Tragedies of the Sea.