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Title: The Last Cruise of the Saginaw

Author: George H. Read

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THE LAST CRUISE OF THE SAGINAW

[Illustration: LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER MONTGOMERY SICARD]

THE LAST CRUISE OF
THE SAGINAW

BY

GEORGE H. READ
PAY INSPECTOR, U.S.N. (RETIRED)

_With Illustrations from Sketches by Lieutenant
Commander (afterwards Rear-Admiral)
Sicard and from Contemporary
Photographs_

[Illustration]

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1912

COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY GEORGE H. READ
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published February 1912_

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES OF
THIS FIRST EDITION PRINTED AND
BOUND UNCUT WITH PAPER LABEL

THIS BOOK
IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE NOBLE
MEN WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE
EFFORT TO OBTAIN RELIEF FOR
THEIR SHIPWRECKED
COMRADES

PREFACE

Dear Mr. Read:--

I am greatly obliged to you for letting me read your deeply
interesting account of the wreck of the poor Saginaw and the loss of
Lieutenant Talbot. With General Cutter's approval I shall take the
manuscript with me to Boston, but I will return it carefully.

I leave the two photographs, but I have the curious drawing and
newspaper scraps, which I will safely return.

Very truly yours,
EDWARD E. HALE.

Dec. 21, 1880.
WASHINGTON.

A recent re-reading of the above old letter from a friend who in his
lifetime stood so high in the literary world, has, togeth