Hampton Roads and Four Centuries as a World's Seaport: Roadstead
- ISBN-10
- 0773490647
- ISBN-13
- 9780773490642
- Pages
- 390
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Edwin Mellen Press
- Author
- John Frye
Description
This is a study of a special seaport, where the USA's history started nearly four centuries ago, the port known from Singapore to Rotterdam, from Buenos Aires to Sydney, for ships and seamen. It is Hampton Roads, Henry Wriothesley, the Earl of Southampton's roadstead. It occupies 25 miles of salted Virginia water just west of the southern end of one of the world's largest estuaries, Chesapeake Bay.
