LIST OF 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



THE EARL Y YEARS Page 



Benjamin Franklin 2 



Franklin's Chart of the Gulf Stream 4 



Thomas Truxton, Captain, U.S. Navy 5 



THE 1800s 



Nathaniel Bowditch, "Father of Modern Navigation" 8 



John Rodgers, Commodore, U.S. Navy 24 



Constitution. "Old Ironsides", frigate 25 



Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler. First Superintendent of the Coast Survey 26 



Hassler's 24-inch Theodolite 27 



Louis M. Goldsborough, Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy, First Officer-in-Charge of the 



Navy's Depot of Charts and histruments 28 



Experiment, schooner 29 



Charles Wilkes, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy 30 



Porpoise, brig, accompanied by schooners Maria and Badassah 31 



Chart of Georges Shoal and Bank (published 1837) 32 



Consort and Pioneer, brigs 33 



Pilot, schooner 34 



Vincennes, sloop-of-war 35 



Peacock, sloop-of-war 35 



Sea Gull, schooner 36 



Flying Fish, Schooner 36 



Relief, storeship 37 



Washington, brig 37 



Matthew Fontaine Maury, Commander, U. S. Navy, "Pathfinder of the Seas" .... 38 



Roger B. Taney, schooner 39 



Albany, sloop-of-war 40 



Dolphin, brig 40 



Midshipman John Mercer Brooke's deep sea sounding devices 41 



Niagara, frigate, and Agamemnon, British battleship, laying first trans-Atlantic tele- 

 graph cable (1858) 42 



Matthew Calbraith Perry, Commodore, U. S. Navy 43 



Silas Bent, Lieutenant, U. S. Navy 44 



Perry's Expedition to Japan in Tokyo Bay (July 1853) 45 



Cadwalader Ringgold, Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy 46 



John Rodgers, Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy 47 



Elisha Kent Kane, Passed Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Navy 48 



Advance, brig, accompanied by the hng Rescue 49 



William Francis Lynch, Captain, U. S. Navy 50 



Supply, storeship 51 



Chart Engraving by James Abbot McNeil Whistler 52 



Alaska, gunboat 53 



Benicia, sloop-of-war 53 



Palos, gunboat 54 



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