At Sea: U. S. S. Pocahontas, 1919. Nine issues in all (viz. volume I, number 1, March 1919 to volume I, number 11, August 1919 (wanting nos. 5 and 6); no. 2 is misidentified as volume II, no. 2; light edge wear, previous folds, very good. Each issue is a bifolium of 4 pages and each measures 7¼" x 5". A lively and colorful look at naval life at sea during the closing months of World War I. The USS Pocahontas was originally a German ocean-liner (SS Prinzess Irene) built in 1899. At the start of the United States' involvement in World War I the Prinzess was in New York, and thus confiscated by the United States in 1917 and converted into a troop transport. As the USS Pocahontas, she carried 24,573 servicemen to Europe, and after the war returned 23,296 servicemen to the United States. Issues of The Tomahawk were published at sea aboard the ship on its way back to the United States with troops for repatriation. In the Pocahontas's final year of service The Tomahawk was published and contained news of the crew, passengers, a history of the ship's service in the war, and with much jollity at the expense of the crew. Other highlights include editorials, poetry, liberty parties, departures and arrivals of crew and officers, the "Moving Picture Schedule," a report of a recent shipboard boxing match complete with participants, and an additional preview of an upcoming boxing tournament which promises to be "a real bang-up, high-class Farewell Smoker with the whole gang - gobs, yeogirls, Pill-rollers, Pelhamites, sailors, Bensonhurst Boots on deck." OCLC shows Wisconsin Historical Society as the only holding. How many issues is uncertain. More