Prologue : Hampton Roads, Winter
I. The Origins of United States Ship Athena, Patrol Coastal 15
Captain Rensselaer’s Dream
The West Wing
A Streetcar Named St. Charles
Katy and Athena
Norfolk
II. Blue Oceans, Bright Stars
Set Course for Gibraltar
Holworthy
The Classical Sea
Haifa
III. The Sun off East Africa
The First Battle: Sinai. And Then the Red Sea
Katy’s Letter
The Second Battle: General Quarters
Movius
The Wardroom and the Water Spout
The Third Battle: Athena vs. Sahand
IV. Spinning on a Compass Rose
In the Navy, You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Compagnie Navale Fraissinet
“Spacious Endurance” (Really?)
The Fourth Battle: L’Étoile Océanique
V. The Desert
The Fifth Battle: Ras Hagar
The Sixth Battle: Somalian Plateau
The Seventh Battle: Hadawi’s Army
VI. Lovely Appear
Alone
Katy on the Home Front
Recherche et Secours
The Emptiness of Luxury
VII. Trial
Rensselaer in the Clouds
Navy Consolidated Brig, Chesapeake
The Glass House
Skirmishes at Law
The First Cut
The Kill
The Cross
Closing Statements
Verdict
Snow
Epilogue : Poydras and St. Charles