Commodore Ellsworth P. Bertholf

First Commandant of the Coast Guard

By C. Douglas Kroll
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  • Format:
    Softcover
  • Pages:
    292
    pages
  • Published:
    September 15, 2018
  • ISBN-10:
    1682473392
  • ISBN-13:
    9781682473399
  • Product Dimensions:
    9.5 × 6.25 × 1 in
  • Product Weight:
    9 oz
Softcover $5.79
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Overview Author

Overview

Written by a former Coast Guard officer, the book chronicles Commodore Ellsworth P. Bertholf ’s colorful early career with the service when he patrolled the vast reaches of the Pacific, enforced maritime laws regulating the fishing, sealing, and whaling industries, participated in daring rescues, and transported Siberian reindeer from Russia to the starving Inuits.

About the Author

C Kroll

Commander Kroll is a history instructor at the College of the Desert in Palm Desert, California. A former Coast Guard officer who became a Navy chaplain, he retired from the Naval Reserve in 1996. He is a 1971 graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and received his master's degree from the University of San Diego and his Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University. His biography of Commodore Ellsworth Bertholf, the Coast Guard's first commandant, will be published by the Naval Institute Press in 2002.

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