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The USS Olympia is the oldest extant steel-hulled warship in the world. Constructed as part of a congressionally mandated program to build a modern fleet prior to the turn of the 19th century, she became famous as Adm. George Dewey's flagship at the Battle of Manila Bay. Today she is part of a naval shrine at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia. This is a flesh-and-steel history of a pivotal warship that straddled the eras of commerce raiding and battle fleet confrontation in naval warfare. From her conceptual beginnings on drawing boards in Washington to the battle to protect her against age, scrapping, and the advent of big-gun battleships, this landmark study celebrates one of America's classic historic ships.

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No one knows more than Benjamin Franklin Cooling about the new navy of the 1880s, and no one knows as much about its most famous ship, the USS Olympia, Dewey's flagship at Manila Bay in 1898. This fully researched and highly readable book should grace the bookshelf of anyone interested in the naval history of the nation. --David F. Trask, former chief historian of the U.S. Army Center for Military History

""No one knows more than Benjamin Franklin Cooling about the new navy of the 1880s, and no one knows as much about its most famous ship, the USS Olympia, Dewey's flagship at Manila Bay in 1898. This fully researched and highly readable book should grace the bookshelf of anyone interested in the naval history of the nation.""--David F. Trask, former chief historian of the U.S. Army Center for Military History

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Benjamin Franklin Cooling is the author of more than twenty books, including Benjamin Franklin Tracy: Father of the Modern American Fighting Navy, Gray Steel and Bluewater Navy, and Robley D. Evans: A Sailor's Log.

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