Tag: George Savary Wasson
-
01 Marine Work, George Savary Wasson’s Seascape with Ships, With Footnotes, #319
Sold for $800.00 in May 2019George Savary Wasson 1855-1932; was from a shipbuilding and seafaring family in Brooksville, Maine, George Wasson’s father was a prominent Transcendentalist minister whose church was that of Thoreau and Emerson. His grandfather and uncle built and owned ships. From 1873- 1875, when his father went to Germany to study religion,…
-
01 Marine Work, GEORGE SAVARY WASSON’s USS Brooklyn at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, With Footnotes, #320
The Battle of Santiago de Cuba was a decisive naval engagement that occurred on July 3, 1898 between an American fleet, led by William T. Sampson and Winfield Scott Schley, against a Spanish fleet led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, which occurred during the Spanish–American War. The significantly more powerful US Navy squadron, consisting of four…