Probably the title or the author is misspelt...... may have a look later when I get back from errands. Something to amuse oneself for a little bit, maybe, doing a fuzzy search of some kind. My cousin's wife is a research librarian, maybe I can charm her into sparing a few minutes (tho' she's working on her master's and is pretty fully occupied with her M.O.M. degree as well).
By all means, have at it. If it turns up, I'll learn a new place to reseach, because I did due diligence on this one.
First, though, you have to check this post by Watie last year which turned up in my first Google search of the title. (http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1184555/posts, #36)
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bet ya'll didn't know that the CG ARMED private fishing boats in the Chesapeake Bay AND provided arms (including water-cooled heavy MGs AND some "light deck guns", read CANNONS!) to the Maryland, New York, Rhode Island, Texas (fyi,all TX gunboats are named/re-named for TX cities, when serving in wartime) and Virginia "state naval forces" (read:PRIVATEERS!), during WW2.
SOME of those fishing boats/yachts got into SHOOT-OUTS with German submarines & WON! all of the "privately-crewed gunboats did VALUABLE service to the war effort!
The CITY OF GOLIAD (formerly the 64-foot motor yacht, EEL) captured a U-boat in 1942 & towed it to Galveston,TX as a PRIZE OF WAR! (the U-boat is now berthed in the Galveston County Park.)
The CITY OF GONZALES (formerly the 88-foot sailing yawl, GRAY-HOUND)fought a 2-hour surface battle with another U-boat & SUNK the submarine, with a direct hit from a WW1-surplus ANTI-TANK GUN!
see the book YACHTS AGAINST SUBS by RAM(retired) L.B.N.Gnaedinger for more details! facinating book!
free dixie,sw
, So now we've got a title and an author. Search the author and the title on google and you get a reference to the magazine article in the USCG bibliography. So we can assume that the spelling of the author's name is accurate and that he did, indeed, write something that included the phrase "Yachts Against Subs," so the misspelling possibility diminishes. Search the University of Houston library website. Watie says that the book is availiable there. But it's not in their catalog. A title search for anything with the word "Yacht" or "Yachts" turns up nothing like Watie's book, and a search of the author's name yields a goose egg.. Search the Library of Congress site. No LBN Gnaedinger, no book called "Yachts Against Subs." So if you find this book, I'd like to know how you did it.