{"product_id":"maverick-navy-9780819550002","title":"Maverick Navy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Maverick Navy\" is an engaging account of a U.S. Naval Reserve officers adventures while in command of a subchaser in World War I. With the patriotic but nave innocence which so characterized the period  and \"with experience only in small sailing yachts in coastwise cruising \" Alexander W. Moffat was quickly catapulted  in 1917  into the real Navy - the real and earnest  blue water fighting Navy. His command was a subchaser - a small  almost experimental vessel  newly devised to meet a new menace. She was U.S. Subchaser No. 143  110 long  and only 155\" in beam  drawing less than six feet. First crossing the Atlantic in the winter of 1917-18  having to follow other ships in the convoy to which she was assigned because no one aboard had any knowledge of navigation  S.C. No. 143 ultimately served  in a squadron operating out of Plymouth England  to keep the sea lanes off southern Britain free of enemy intrusion. In a series of anecdotes  sometimes comic and often moving  Moffat describes the activities of this Maverick unit up to the Armistice - and his own frustrating attempts to get home again - home to his Sally  home to the civilian life of which the Navy would always be a part. This  then  is the story of a nonprofessional  pragmatic sailor - a born story-teller - serving within the system but with all the resourcefulness and ingenuity and leadership that typify the best of the American character when called upon to don the nations uniform.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45275253604405,"sku":"ByrdShop_0819550000","price":96.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780819550002.jpg?v=1780503681","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/maverick-navy-9780819550002","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}