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April/May 1983

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Volume

34

Issue

3

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Stories published from "April/May 1983"

Sea Power Confronts The Twenty-first Century

Authored by: 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?

Authored by: 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

Authored by: 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

Authored by: 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

The Great North Sea Mine Barrage

Authored by: 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

Authored by: Walter Karp

She was the first whaleship ever sunk by her prey. But that’s not why she’s remembered.

What It Was Like To Be Shot Up By ‘old Ironsides’

Authored by: Daphne D. C. Pochin Mould

The fascinating contents of a newly discovered document of the War of 1812

Masters Of The Merchant Marine

Authored by: 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

Authored by: Robert Uhl

Antonio Jacobsen, the most prolific of all American marine artists

Henry Francis Du Pont And The Invention Of Winterthur

Authored by: Walter Karp

How a shy millionaire’s peculiar genius transformed his “country place” into an unparalleled showcase of American furnishings
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