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"Preble Launches Attack On Pirate Stronghold"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Object, Other Object
  • Fred Humiston
  • 1965-01-01
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
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"Preble Launches Attack On Pirate Stronghold"
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Identifier:
  • gcihs-2014.506.2997
Type:
  • Publication, Newspaper
Subject:
  • Object, Other Object
Creator:
  • Fred Humiston
Publisher:
  • Guy Gannett Publishing Company
Date:
  • 1965-01-01
Place:
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
Description:
"Preble Launches Attack On Pirate Stronghold." Part 197 of Fred Humiston's "Blue Water Men - And Women." This part tells the story of Lieutenant Stephen Decatur and Commodore Preble destroying the captured frigate "Philadelphia." The men succeeded in their goal to destroy the Philadelphia. The article says "The Frigate's destruction took a great load off Commodore Preble's mind, for properly commissioned in pirates hand, she might have wrecked havoc in the American squadron." [show more]