Mess Halls and Ward Rooms, 1880s to 1950s features New Books in the Library on Food at Sea.
View the compartments of an Indiana-class Battleship from the late 1800s,in an illustration in The American Steel Navy by John Doughty Alden, showing five decks with most of the over 200 storerooms, and the gunnery which doubled as the mess hall in some ships. Images of kitchens, both on deck and in a dedicated compartment, ships’ cooks preparing beef stew and potatoes, and advice given by recipe books from the mid-twentieth century highlight new additions to the Library on food in the U.S. Navy and on merchant ships. Now through August, 2013.
More new books in the Library.
Three intriguing new books in the Library have details about mess halls on ships during World War II and much earlier. Collingham’s “The Taste of War” offers a new look at strategies and battles, how food, or the lack of it, persuades history. Purchase a book, “Beef Stew for 2500” by Rudy Shappee in the Sea Chest Gift Shop.
Books on Sale
Shopping for pre-owned maritime history books? Check here monthly for updates on new additions to our Used Book Shelves. The Sea Chest Gift Shop sells duplicates from the Library which are in good to very good condition. See the label for each book and a description below the images. Come into the Shop Tuesday through Sunday during Museum Open Hours or fill out your request to the Sea Chest Gift Shop using our online request form.
American Caesar Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 by William Manchester. $20.00
American Naval History by Jack Sweetman. $25.00
Anti-Submarine Warfare by J.R. Hill. $15.00
Boat Building with Plywood by Glen L. Witt. $10.00
The Decorative Arts of the Mariner by Gervis Frere-Cook. $60.00
Disaster Log of Ships by Jim Gibbs. $25.00
International Register of Historic Ships by Norman Brouwer. Second edition. $26.00
The National Watercraft Collection by Howard I. Chapelle. $35.00
A Panorama of Gaff Rig by John Leather and Roger M. Smith. $15.00
Patrick O’Brian’s Navy. $45.00
Souvenir program 1997-98. The Whitbread. Round the World Race for the Volvo Trophy. $5.00
U.S. Warships of World War I by Paul Silverstone. $35.00
If you’d like to purchase any of the above books, fill out your request to the Sea Chest Gift Shop using our online request form.
Highlighting African-American Maritime History with a broad range of books on American History.
From left to right in the image: Robert Smalls (1839-1915), Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), and Matthew Henson (1866-1955) are just four of many, many heroes in history from just before the Civil War into the early twentieth Century. See the Library’s exhibit in the Navy Hall for details about books in our collections that cover this period.
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Press release image, dated 1963.
The following is excerpted from the finding aid for the collection.
Title: Charles L. Sauerbier Collection
Dates: 1956-1965
Creator: Charles L. Sauerbier
Extent: less than 1 cu. ft.
Physical characteristics: Photographic prints, printed brochures, presented papers, maps and ephemera.
Abstract: A collection of documents related to Charles Sauerbier’s work with a maritime academy in Indonesia in the 1960s.
Biographical information: Charles Sauerbier is the author of Marine Cargo Operations, published by John Wiley & Sons, 1956. At the time it was published he was chief of the Cargo Section, Department of Nautical Science, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
Administrative Information:
Repository: Los Angeles Maritime Museum Research Library
Access, Use: Prior arrangement with Librarian, Curator, or Museum Director
Preferred Citation for Reference Requests: Charles L. Sauerbier Collection
Copyright Notice: Copyright restrictions may apply. See the copyright notice here.
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New books in the Library are featured titles. In our collections, other titles on the same subject may be seen at the Library’s online catalog at LibraryThing.com.
More subjects in the Library’s Collection of Books.
New books in the Library’s Collections.
Jack London is the author of stories about the Western frontier of Alaska, as well as the peoples of the Pacific Islands. His best known works described the Alaskan Gold Rush: Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Sea Wolf. Equally compelling but lesser known are his Pacific Island stories: they grew out of his experiences sailing the Ocean between 1908-1916.
Selections Novels and Stories. / Jack London. Published by Library of America, 1982.
Selections. Novels and Social Writings. / Jack London. Published by Library of America, 1982.
Tales of the Fish patrol. / Jack London. Published by Forgotten Books, Reprint from the International Fiction Library, 2012, c1918.
Stories of Hawaii. / Jack London. Edited by A. Grove Day. Published by Mutual Publishing, 1986, c1965.
Jack London’s Tales of Cannibals and Headhunters : Nine South Seas Stories by America’s Master of Adventure. / Jack London. Edited and annotated by Gary Riedl and Thomas R. Tietze. Published by University of New Mexico Press, 2006.
Jack London in Aloha-land. / Charmian Kittredge London. Author of “Voyaging in Wild Seas”. Published by Kegan Paul, Distributed by Columbia University Press, New York, 2002.
A powerfully-engaged man, London traveled to Asia as a war correspondent in the Russo-Japanese War, photographing people and conditions there. He also appeared in England where he posed homeless along London’s quays so he could study the struggles of poverty and wrote “The People of the Abyss”, an acknowledged and socially-charged statement of the times (early 1900).
See the Library’s blog posts on Jack London here.
Freedom’s soldiers : the Black military experience in the Civil War / edited by Ira Berlin, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland.
Giants : the parallel lives of Frederick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln / John Stauffer. Published by Twelve, N.Y., 2008.
Strange maps : an atlas of cartographic curiosities. / Frank Jacobs. Published by Viking Studio Press, New York, 2009.
View the compartments of an Indiana-class Battleship from the late 1800s,in an illustration in The American Steel Navy by John Doughty Alden, showing five decks with most of the over 200 storero[...]
From left to right in the image: Robert Smalls (1839-1915), Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), and Matthew Henson (1866-1955) are just four of[...]
New books in the Library are featured titles. In our collections, other titles on the same subject may be seen at the Library’s online catalog at LibraryThing.com.
More subjects in the Library’s[...]
Los Angeles Harbor Maps and Charts
Historic, thematic and pilot chart[...]
These books represent new purchases and donations of historical fiction and non-fiction for your reading pleasure at home. Borrow a book for up to three weeks with your Museum Membership Card.
A new purchase in the Library, “At Drake’s Command: The Adventures of Peregrine James during the Second navigation of the World” by David Wesley Hill, Temurlone Books, 2012.
See a partial listing of our Lending Library at Library Thing.
View the Library Blog Adventures of Maritime History from the Los Angeles Maritime Museum Research Library.
See an exhibit of books and Museum objects from the collections in the Navy Hall. On view until Jan 31st, “To the Poles North and South, Circa 1900!” featuring accounts and illustrations from notebooks and journals of the explorers and the photographs of Frank Hurley.
The Los Angeles Maritime Museum Research Library is located within the Museum. Click here to check the hours and to visit the library. Or call 310-548-7618 Fax: 310-832-6537
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Scan of photographic print, “Tugboat Angels Gate” underway in the Main Channel, from Los Angeles Maritime Museum Collections.
The following is excerpted from the finding aid for the collection.
Title: Records of the Tug Angels Gate (ex. L.A.H.D. # 10, ex-ST-695)
Dates: 1942-1992; 1942-1982 bulk
Creator: Los Angeles Harbor Department
Extent: 10 cu. ft. of folders and volumes
Physical characteristics: Paper documents and log books, some hand-drawn diagrams for engine parts
Abstract: The Los Angeles Maritime Museum’s Tug Angels Gate is docked at Berth 84 in San Pedro year round. Tug documentation features the vessel’s history from construction in 1944 as a United States Army Transport Service “small tug” to her purchase by the Port of Los Angeles in 1946 and subsequent donation to the Los Angeles Maritime Museum in 1992.
The documents include vessel certification, repair orders, inventory, correspondence on acquisition between the United States Maritime Commission and Port of Los Angeles, transfer of title, name change, drydock reports, and the tug’s log books for the period from September 1945 to October 1977.
Scope and Content Notes:
Information on tug boats can be found in two books “U.S. Army Ships and Warcraft of World War II” published by Naval Institute Press, and “Ordeal of the Convoy NY 119” published by Ensign Press.
Tug boats at West coast maritime museums include the Hercules, a 151 foot ocean-going historic tug currently at the San Francisco Maritime Museum.
Biographical Notes: The harbor tug Angels Gate was built in 1944 as ST-695 for the United States Army Transport Service. The “ST” designates “small tug”, and this class was designed to support the Normandy Invasion. Built at Decatur Iron and Steel in Decatur, Alabama, ST-695 was accepted by the Army on December 27, 1944. The tug never operated in Europe and was declared surplus at the end of the war. Although records are incomplete for the immediate post war period, existing documentation places ST-695 at the Los Angeles Port of Embarkation at Wilmington as early as August, 1945. The Port of Los Angeles [Harbor Department] formally purchased ST-695 from the United States Maritime Commission in late 1946, renaming her L.A.H.D. #10. The tug was in constant use, helping to transport pile drivers and derrick barges during the post-war building boom. The tug accidentally sank in 1952, as a result of seacocks left open overnight. The July 23, 1952 memorandum in Box 2, Folder 9, is the only documentation associated with this mishap.
L.A.H.D. #10 was also the Port’s goodwill boat, used for harbor tours and as a backdrop for publicity events such as “Fashions Afloat”. Her name was officially changed to Angels Gate in January, 1956 to honor the lighthouse marking the entrance to the Port of Los Angeles.
In 1992, the Port retired Angels Gate and donated her to the Los Angeles Maritime Museum. Records of her donation, subsequent refueling, drydocking, maintenance, volunteer activities, and movie roles are kept in the Curatorial Department’s donor files (2520) and are outside the scope of this collection of papers.
Administrative Information:
Repository: Los Angeles Maritime Museum Research Library
Access, Use: Prior arrangement with Librarian, Curator, or Museum Director
Preferred Citation for Reference Requests: Records of the Tug ANGELS GATE
Copyright Notice: Copyright restrictions may apply. See the copyright notice here.
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Scanned image from the Dwight Long collection depicts Dwight Long editing film.
The following is excerpted from the finding aid for the collection.
Title: Papers of Dwight Stanley Long
Dates: 1934 – 1993 (bulk 1934-1959)
Creator: Dwight Stanley Long
Extent: 1 cu. ft.
Physical characteristics:
Black and white photographs, loose and in scrapbooks, printed programs, books, correspondence
Abstract:
Dwight Stanley Long’s (1915-1993) adventures as a circumnavigator, photographer and film director between 1930 and 1959 are revealed in photograph albums, programs, correspondence, books, articles, and press releases. His 32’ ketch was the IDLE HOUR, subject of a movie entitled “Sailing All Seas”, as well as his numerous articles.
Biographical Notes:
Dwight Long, sailor, lecturer, and documentary filmmaker, was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. In 1934 he left Seattle to sail a 32 ft. ketch, the “IDLE HOUR”, around the world via the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans to the East Coast of the United States when the ketch was destroyed in the hurricane of 1938. Long wrote a book, “Sailing All Seas” documenting his circumnavigation of the globe. He lectured in numerous cities both during and following his journey. During World War II he joined the U.S. Navy and became a documentary film producer. After the War, he continued making films, such as “Tanga Tika”, released in 1954.
Administrative Information:
Repository: Los Angeles Maritime Museum Research Library
Access, Use: Prior arrangement with Librarian or Curator, Museum Director
Preferred Citation:Papers of Dwight Long
Copyright Notice: Copyright restrictions may apply. See the copyright notice here.
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Please make an appointment online to view any of the collections below. Please refer to the collection by name, listed below.
Los Angeles Harbor Maps and Charts
Historic, thematic and pilot charts of the channels in Los Angeles Harbor and San Pedro
Bay date from 1943 through the 1980s; also in the collection are nineteenth-century
surveys of the California coast and islands.
Museum Research Library Special collections
Library Special Collections : 1905 – current
An open collection consisting of news clippings, including scrapbooks of the Harbor
Master, and articles of maritime and Los Angeles Harbor interest.
Library Special collections: Pamphlets or Booklets
Subjects range from local to world maritime history. Most pamphlets or booklets were published between 1920s and 1980s.
Annual Reports of the Port of Los Angeles, dated 1912-2000.
Maritime history as written in articles for journals published nationally or internationally. Most are not indexed.
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If you do not see what you are looking for, please call the Library for more information at 310-548-7618 x 215.
A Bibliography of American Naval history. / Compiled by Paolo E. Coletta, 1981.
Brassey’s Encyclopedia of Military History and Biography. / Franklin D. Margiotta, 1994.
Building American Submarines 1914-1940. / Gary Weir in Contributions to Naval History published by Naval Historical Center Department of the Navy, Washington, D.C., 1991
Combat fleets of the world… : their ships, aircraft, and armament. / Jean Labayle Couhat. Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, 1976.
The first English edition of the 1897, French work, “Les flottes de combat”, features navies of the world, and was published in France and the United States. Library has: 1976/77; 1978/79; 1980/81; 1982/83; 1984/85; 1986/87.
Combat fleets of the world 1998/99 : their ships, aricraft and armament. / Compiled by A.D. Baker. Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, 1998.
Dictionary of American Naval fighting ships. /Navy Department Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval History Division, Washington, D.C., 1959–1981.
History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II. / Samuel Eliot Morison. Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown and Company, 1954. Library has Volumes 1 to 14 (Vols. 5, 7 missing):
A Bibliography of American Naval history. / Compiled by Paolo E. Coletta, 1981.
Brassey’s Encyclopedia of Military History and Biography. / Franklin D. Margiotta, 1994.
Building American Submarines 1914-1940. / Gary Weir in Contributions to Naval History published by Naval Historical Center Department of the Navy, Washington, D.C., 1991
Combat fleets of the world… : their ships, aircraft, and armament. / Jean Labayle Couhat. Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, 1976.
The first English edition of the 1897, French work, “Les flottes de combat”, features navies of the world, and was published in France and the United States. Library has: 1976/77; 1978/79; 1980/81; 1982/83; 1984/85; 1986/87.
Combat fleets of the world 1998/99 : their ships, aircraft and armament. / Compiled by A.D. Baker. Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, 1998.
Dictionary of American Naval fighting ships. /Navy Department Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval History Division, Washington, D.C., 1959–1981.
History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II. / Samuel Eliot Morison. Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown and Company, 1954. Library has Volumes 1 to 14 (Vols. 5, 7 missing):
Jane’s fighting ships 1905/6 : a reprint of the 1905/6 edition of Fighting Ships. / Edited by Fred T. Jane, 1970.
The Ships and aircraft of the United States fleet nineth edition. / John S. Rowe and Samuel L. Morison. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1972.
The Ships and aircraft of the United States fleet. / By James C. Fahey.
Library has 5 volumes: 1939 edition, the War edition, Second War edition, Victory edition, and Two-Ocean fleet edition, published between 1944 and 1978, mostly as reprints of the Ships and Aircraft original publications.
U.S. Warships of World War 2 / Paul H. Silverstone. Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, 1989, c1965.
Warship volume i to volume X / edited by Robert Gardiner, 1980.
Warships and Navies of the world, 1880 / J.W. King, 1982.
Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869 – 1945 / Hansgeorg Jentshura, Dieter Jung and Peter Mickel; Translated by Antony Preston and J.D. Brown, 1970.
