The United States Navy fleet submarine was the ultimate undersea fighting machine in the Pacific during World War II. One survivor of this unique class of boats, USS Pampanito SS-383, is a living museum at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf. Pampanito is famous for recovering more Allied prisoners-of-war from a sunken enemy ship than any submarine before or since. This book chronicles the history of the boat from her launching, through the war, to lay-up and restoration.

STEEL SHARK IN THE PACIFIC

USS PAMPANITO SS-383

by Capt. Walter W. Jaffee

• Soft cover, 224 pp, over 100 photos and illustrations
• ISBN 1-889901-16-4
• Price: $24.95

For those who love Liberty ships, who enjoy looking back to the days of wind ships and luxury liners, or who are intrigued with the idea of cooking on a big, old, coal-fired stove, this is the cookbook for you! Profusely illustrated and adjusted for modern stoves, here are recipes for great dishes from appetizers to desserts, menus from famed ships and liners of bygone days as re-created for the O'Brien's popular raffle prize Dinners for Eight, favorites of the volunteer crew cooked aboard on steaming weekends, rare recipes from the Age of Sail — hard tack, sky blue, dandyfunk — and “history capsules” of the ship. It’s a unique cookbook that both men and women will enjoy.

RECIPES FROM A COAL-FIRED STOVE*

The SS Jeremiah O'Brien cookbook

(*adjusted for gas and electric stoves)

by Capt. Walter W. Jaffee

• Hard cover, lay-flat binding, 200 pp, 200 photos & illustrations, bibliography, recipe index, subject index
• ISBN 1-889901-22-9
• Price: $29.95

SS LANE VICTORY served in three wars — World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. You are aboard on her wartime runs and share the sorrow, fear, excitement, boredom and terror that are the life of a ship and its crews in wartime. Then come aboard the Lane, in her second life, as an active museum ship making cruises that bring her history alive.

THE LANE VICTORY

A Victory Ship in War and in Peace

by Capt. Walter W. Jaffee

• Hard cover, 448 pp, 119 photos
• ISBN 0-9637586-9-4
• Price: $30