Author: Francis HIGGINSON (Lieut., R.N.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Smugglers, a Chronicle of the Coast Guard
Author: Francis HIGGINSON (Lieut., R.N.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi B. Bandinel
Author: Bent's Literary Advertiser and Register of Engravings, Works on the Fine Arts
Author: The Monthly Literary Advertiser
Author: Index to the British Catalogue of Books: 1837-1857. 1858
Author: The British Catalogue of Books, Published from October 1837 to December 1852: General alphabet
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
The smugglers
Author: Francis Higginson (lt.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The British Catalogue of Books Published from October 1837 to December 1852
Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Red Crew
Author: Jim HowePublisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1682473023
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Red Crew is a first-hand account of U.S. Coast Guard anti-smuggling operations during the early years of the nation’s maritime war on drugs. Jim Howe describes his experience as the executive officer of a specialized drug-hunting crew that sailed in then-state-of-the-art “surface effect ships,” a small flotilla of high-speed vessels pressed into the drug war on short notice. In the early 1980s, South Florida and the Caribbean were awash in illicit drugs, with hundreds of smuggling organizations bringing huge loads of marijuana, and later cocaine, into the United States. To fight this epidemic, the Reagan administration led a massive effort to disrupt shore-side gangs while bolstering interdiction activity at sea. To increase the number of days at sea for each surface effect ship, a “multi-crewing” concept was employed, with four teams of sixteen sailors—the Red, Blue, Green, and Gold Crews—rotating among three hulls. Through its first-person narrative, Red Crew offers a rare glimpse into the day-to-day pressures, challenges, failures, and successes of Coast Guard cuttermen as they carried out complex and dangerous missions. Red Crew provides a unique historical view of the early days in the Coast Guard’s war on drugs, and is the only book-length history of the diminutive, one-of-a-kind surface effect ship fleet.
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description