Water-Tender Frederick T. Wilson, USN, on Asiatic Station, 1899-1901
by
James Reckner
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Frederick T. Wilson was an engineer who carried the rank of first-class petty officer and served on one of the Navy’s first modern battleships, the USS Oregon, at the turn of the twentieth century.
Wilson offers a rare uncensored picture of enlisted life, with descriptions of bar girls and...