Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1812- 1885
Abstract:
Letters of officers including
J.M. Nicholson, Captain of the U.S. Frigate Potomac; H. Paulding Lt. of the Schooner Shark to Commodore Daniel Patterson enclosing
monthly crew reports, 1834-35; and I. Percival, Captain of the U.S. Frigate Constitution, to
I.Y. Mason, Secretary of the Navy, requesting additional vessels for shallow water duty,
1844; also other reports and miscellany.
Type of Material:
Public records.
Correspondence.
Subject:
Military history
Ships -- United States -- History -- 19th century.