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• W4376543721 abstract "TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 371 The Old Steam Navy, vol. 1: Frigates, Sloops, and Gunboats, 1815—1885. By Donald L. Canney. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1990. Pp. xx+ 204; illustrations, notes, glossary, appendixes, bibliogra­ phy, index. $49.95. The Old Steam Navy is a new reference work containing the ship plans, photographs, and text depicting classes of war vessels created for the U.S. Navy that were powered by both sail and steam during the mid19th century. Donald Canney’s purpose was to document the ships of the early steam navy, a subject long neglected in naval literature. Cov­ erage ranges from Demologos, designed by Robert Fulton in the closing months of the War of 1812, to Mohican, the last wooden-hulled sail and steam vessel constructed for the U.S. Navy. Canney’s scholarly ap­ proach includes unbiased analyses of the design characteristics of each class of vessel, and he mentions many individual ships of each class in evaluating their performance. The book is divided into eleven chap­ ters, and there are two appendixes, Construction Fate of Vessels, and Dimensions, Horsepower and Armament of Vessels. A glossary will be useful for those not acquainted with the technical language of wooden ship designs and propulsion systems. The foreword is signed by Nor­ man Friedman, an expert on the design and use of warships and naval weapons in the contemporary period. Canney’s method is to state the historical context into which the engineering and ship design innovations were introduced and then to describe a ship’s dimensions and spatial arrangements, detailing her armament, type of engineering plant, and propulsion system. He describes the actual performance of the ship and whether she excelled or underperformed in such areas as consumption of coal, sea-keeping ability, speed, susceptibility to mechanical breakdowns, the perfor­ mance of the propulsion system, and endurance records. The text is accompanied by superb ship photographs, the oldest a July 1850 picture of the paddle steamer Susquehanna under construc­ tion in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Unfortunately, the photocopied ship plans did not reproduce well. The book would have benefited from a greater number of engine plan reproductions. An alternative to reproduction of the original drawing is the printing of modern tracings of those drawings, a technique Canney used occasionally and should have more often for the sake of clarity. Reviewing the cycles of naval ship design, construction, decay, and revival, and the rapid slide toward obsolescence that took place in the U.S. Navy once the Civil War had ended, I can only agree with Norman Friedman that Canney’s excellent study contains valuable lessons for the present. Navies do not spring into existence at the moment they are needed. A navy’s ships must be procured, designed, tested, and built. In order for that to happen in any period, navalists and naval officers need to work together to persuade the government, 372 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE meaning both the administration and Congress, of the need to meet new strategic threats. Also, once built, even modern navies can become obsolete without constant maintenance and improvement. The costs involved make it essential for the government and the taxpaying public to understand why a navy is needed and how it will be used. The virtue of this book is that it makes the technical problems of ship construction and propulsion understandable to the lay reader without oversimpli­ fying the problems that had to be overcome in creating ships to match the missions for which the Navy Department was responsible. William S. Dudley Dr. Dudley is senior historian of the Naval Historical Center at the Washington Navy Yard. For several years he has been the editor of the projected three-volume series, The Naval War of 1812. His primary interest is in documenting the history of the U.S. Navy in the 19th century. Canals for a Nation: The Canal Era in the United States, 1790—1860. By Ronald E. Shaw. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990. Pp. x + 284; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $28.00. Recent scholarship has usually focused on canals as single entities. However, Ronald E. Shaw’s new book, Canals for a Nation: The Canal..." @default.
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