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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Ships’ Logs by George Henry Preble, Volume I |
| Reference | Ms. N-739 |
| Library | Massachusetts Historical Society |
| Collection | George Henry Preble Papers, 1729-1926 (bulk 1729-1884) |
| Date | 1836-1852 |
| Author / Creator | Preble, George Henry |
| Description |
Logs kept by George Henry Preble while serving as a midshipman, lieutenant, and acting master in the United States Navy from 1836-1852 on the United States, Macedonian, Levant, Ohio, Jefferson, St Louis, Warren, Erie, and Petrel. Daily one and two-line entries record longitude and latitude, weather, sailing course and direction, winds, ships sighted, brief stops, and daily shipboard activities. Included are officer and crew lists for each voyage, a list of deaths on the voyage aboard the frigate United States, and many drawings and watercolors. Also included is a narrative harbor log kept aboard the receiving ship Ohio while in port at Charlestown Navy Yard, 1842-1843; a list of officers of the US surveying schooner Madison on a surveying mission from New York to Indian Key from 20 September-8 October 1841 and one log entry upon the arrival at Indian Key; and a list of officers on the sloop of war Saratoga. |
| Document Type | Logbook, Manuscript |
| Theme(s) | Trade and Commerce; Travel and Tourism |
| Keywords | voyage, report, longitude, latitude, weather, navigation, ship, vessel, seafaring, sailor, crew, adventure, navy, officer, sea, weapons, chart, captain, government, punishment, steam, journey, survey, food, equipment, world |
| Countries | USA; New Zealand; Australia; Chile; Indonesia; Philippines; China; Brazil; South Africa; Cuba; Mexico |
| Places | Caribbean; Africa; Florida |
| Ports | New York, USA; Valparaiso, Chile; Auckland, New Zealand; Manila, Philippines; Jakarta, Indonesia; Guangzhou, China; Boston, USA; Portsmouth, USA; Pensacola, USA; Havana, Cuba; Norfolk, USA; Macau, China; Veracruz, Mexico |
| Ships | United States, Macedonian, Levant, Ohio, Jefferson, St Louis, Warren, Erie, Petrel, Madison, Saratoga |
| Additional Information |
Cruises include those made aboard the frigate United States, commanded by Jesse Wilkinson, from New York to the Mediterranean Sea and back to Boston from 1836-1838; sloop of war Warren, commanded by William A. Spencer, from 21 February-26 September 1839 from Norfolk, Virginia to the Gulf of Mexico and Pensacola, Florida; frigate Macedonian, commanded by Beverley Kennon, from 1839-1840 from Pensacola to the West Indies with a stop at Havana, Cuba; ship Levant, commanded by Joseph Smoot, from 19 March-6 September 1840 from Havana to Pensacola, Boston, Massachusetts and Portsmouth, New Hampshire; sloop of war Erie, commanded by William Vigneron Taylor, from 7-23 September 1840 from Portsmouth to Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston; brigantine Jefferson, commanded by John Rodgers, from 1841-1842 from Indian Key, Florida to Virginia; sloop of war St Louis, commanded by Harrison H. Cocke and Lewis G. Keith, from 1843-1845 out of Norfolk for a voyage around the world with stops made at Brazil, Saldanha Bay, South Africa, Canton and Macao, China, Manila, Philippines, and Batavia, Indonesia; schooner Petrel, commanded by T. Darrah Shaw, from 1846-1847 out of New York to the Gulf of Mexico during the Mexican War; and ship Ohio, commanded by Silas Horton Stringham, from 9-25 May 1847 from Veracruz, Mexico to Norfolk with a stop at Havana during the Mexican War. Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Massachusetts Historical Society catalogue. |
| Copyright | Massachusetts Historical Society |
