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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Ships’ Logs by George Henry Preble, Volume II |
| Reference | Ms. N-739 |
| Library | Massachusetts Historical Society |
| Collection | George Henry Preble Papers, 1729-1926 (bulk 1729-1884) |
| Date | 1852-1863 |
| Author / Creator | Preble, George Henry |
| Description | Logs kept by George Henry Preble while serving as a lieutenant and acting master in the United States Navy from 1852-1863 on the Gallantin, Katahdin, Narragansett, Oneida, St Louis, Rhode Island, Queen, and Confucius. Narrative and diary format log entries record longitude and latitude, winds, courses sailed, weather, ships sighted, and daily shipboard activities. Included are officer and crew lists. |
| 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, war, prisoner, pirate |
| Countries | USA; China; Spain; Portugal; Brazil; Mexico; Peru; Panama |
| Places | Florida; Canary Islands; Maine; Huangpu |
| Ports | New York, USA; Boston, USA; Macau, China; Guangzhou, China; Norfolk, USA; Portsmouth; USA; New Orleans, USA; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Hong Kong, China; Fuzhou, China; Lisbon, Portugal; Cadiz, Spain; Mobile, USA; Falmouth, USA; Pensacola, USA |
| Ships | Gallantin, Confucius, Queen, Narragansett, Katahdin, Oneida, St Louis, Rhode Island |
| Additional Information |
Cruises include those made aboard the United States surveying ship Gallantin commanded by Preble from 29 June-3 November 1852 from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Maine, and the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston; steamer Confucius from 30 June-18 August 1854 out of Fuchow, China in search of pirates; United States chartered steamer Queen, commanded by Preble, from 1854-1855, which transported prisoners and passengers between Hong Kong and Huangpu and Macao, China; screw sloop Narragansett, commanded by Timothy Atwater Hunt, from 1859-1861 out of Boston to Norfolk, Virginia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Peru, Panama, and Mexico; United States gunboat Katahdin from 1 March-4 August 1862 out of Boston to Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Mississippi River as a blockader to stop Confederate commerce raiders during the Civil War; sloop Oneida from 5 August-12 October 1862 out of New Orleans to Mobile, Alabama, Pensacola, Florida, and on blockade in the Gulf of Mexico during the Civil War; steamer Rhode Island, commanded by Stephen Decatur Trenchard, from 15 October-9 November 1862 out of Mobile to Norfolk, Virginia; and the United States sloop-of-war St Louis from 1 June-1 October 1863 out of Lisbon, Portugal to Cadiz, Spain, the Azores and Canary Islands, and the Mediterranean Ocean. Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Massachusetts Historical Society catalogue. |
| Copyright | Massachusetts Historical Society |
