much as he did historically. In the 1926 silent film Old Ironsides, Preble was portrayed by actor Charles Hill Mailes. Preble appears as a character in the James L. Haley historical fiction novel "The Shores of Tripoli", . Preble appears In "With Preble at Tripoli : a story of "Old Ironsides" and the Tripolitan war" Pub 1900, Author: James Otis, Publisher: Boston; Chicago : W.A. Wilde Co. Youth Fiction (WorldCat) The Constitution under Preble's command makes a very brief appearance in C. S. Forester's novel Hornblower and the Hotspur. References Notes Sources Further reading Preble, George Henry. A genealogical Sketch of the First Three Generations of Prebles in America. Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1868. Excerpt, pp. 162–180. Pratt, Fletcher. Preble's Boys: Commodore Preble and the Birth of American Sea Power. New York: William Sloane, 1950. Gruppe, Henry. The Frigates. Time-Life books, 1979 McKee, Christopher. Edward Preble: A Naval Biography 1761-1807. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1972. London, Joshua E. Victory in Tripoli: How America's How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005. White, William H. The Greater The Honor. Tiller Publishing, 2003. Berube, Claude and Rodgaard, John. A Call to the Sea: Captain Charles Stewart of the USS Constitution''. Hamden Virginia: Potomac Books, Inc., 2006. External links USSPreble.org Congressional Gold Medal VictoryInTripoli.com 1761 births 1807 deaths American military personnel of the First Barbary War American people of English descent Continental Navy officers United States Navy commodores American military personnel of the Quasi-War Congressional Gold Medal recipients Military personnel from Portland, Maine Tylden family Burials at Eastern Cemetery People of colonial Maine The Governor's Academy alumni