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Figures 1. The Pacific cruising areas of USS Saginaw 7 2. Rare photo of USS Saginaw 17 3. Saginaw waterlines and internal details, 1859 21 4. Saginaw sail plan and elevation drawing, 1863 22 5. Saginaw deck plans, 1863 23 6. Mare Island Navy Yard, ca. 1850s 26 7. Mare Island and the town of Vallejo, 1870 26 8. Receiving ship USS Independence at Mare Island 27 9. Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Sicard, ca. 1870 180 10. Rear Admiral Montgomery Sicard, 1890s 180 11. The Northwestern Hawaiian Island chain 206 12. The shacks at Midway Island, 1870 209 13. Details of the cut surveyed by Sicard, 1870 212 14. Townsend’s patented rock-drilling machine, 1869 214 15. Sketch of USS Saginaw hard aground at Kure Atoll 226 16. Satellite image of Kure Atoll, eastern reef crest 230 17. Island rats swarming the wing holes in the dunes 233 18. Sicard’s tent on the beach, Ocean Island 235 19. Sketch of the stern breaking apart on the reef 236 20. Donkey boiler condensing freshwater, Ocean Island 236 21. Crew laying out sails for the gig 241 22. Sketch of the captain’s gig ready for sea 241 23. Executive Officer John Gunnel Talbot 245 24. Gunner’s Mate William Halford 245 x u Figures 25. Building the schooner Deliverance, Ocean Island 257 26. Sketch of castaway camp, Ocean Island 258 27. Photo of Green Island today 258 28. Photo of the gig at Honolulu Harbor 269 29. Headstone at Nu`uanu Cemetery, Honolulu 285 30. Beach-built sextant at the Naval Academy 297 31. Memorial tablet at the Naval Academy chapel 297 32. Saginaw’s gig on display in Saginaw, Michigan 298 33. Names of J. Andrews and J. Muir etched into gig’s hatch 298 34. Saginaw’s anchors near the impact site 307 35. An encrusted 24-pdr broadside cannon 308 36. Author near the boiler face on the reef 310 37. Diver searching the surge channels 314 38. Brass and bronze steam engine components 315 39. Ship’s bell discovered after 136 years underwater 316 40. One of the Parrott rifled pivot guns found by divers 317 41. Distribution of artifacts at the wreck site 318 42. The 2006 site survey team 319 ...

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