United States Naval Academy - Lucky Bag Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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5he constitution I C the squadron en£ - Tripolitan pirates. HE CONSTITUTION , under Commodore Preble, was the flagship of igaged from 1801 to 1804 in the war with the ipolitan pirates. The little navy of the United States paved the way for the freedom of the Mediterranean, sounded the death knell of piracy in all seas, and taught the Tripolitans that the new nation across the sea had developed a long and powerful arm.

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H THE SBA sense, as a benignant power, diverting her vast energies into those broader and more purposeful channels that tend to serve the better interests of the world at large. How America has helped to shape important world affairs is a story that needs no retelling. Yet our Navy is so closely linked with the writing of this story, that the editors assume the privilege of recounting pictorially, in the pages that follow, a few of the inci- dents by which the Navy has rendered service of international import. By Way of the Sea, America has done much to free the tradeways of the tyrant; to explore the unknown; to enrich the store of human knowledge; to bring order out of chaos; to pro- mote peace. Taking inspiration from these great and useful services that are now become history, our Navy stands ready and eager to participate in the greater destiny America is yet to fulfill — By Way of the Sea.

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N 1853, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry in his flagship, the ( Mississippi, anchored offUraga, Japan. By matching dignity and color ) with greater dignity and more color, the Commodore gained for the white races of the world the respect and commercial amenity of the Japanese, and also enacted one of those dramatic scenes in American his- tory which repay in memorable experience the real debt to the naval officer.