KEEPING A SHIP'S MEMORY AFLOAT

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: July 17, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

The story of the frigate Macedonian is this summer's real-life equivalent of a Patrick O'Brien novel -- rousing maritime history set for the most part in the wooden-ship era and salted with information about the seaworthiness of "Danzig oak" and larboard backstays. On another level, however, James Tertius de Kay's chronicles demonstrate the disposability of the American past.

%EC% Macedonian was launched at Woolwich, England, in 1810, at the height of the Napoleonic Book ReviewWars. The day the last of her timbers burned to the ground as a speakeasy in the Bronx, Babe Ruth hit his fifth ...

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