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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Mixed material	Request in advance	MssCol 514	Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328

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Patuxent (Schooner)

Description

.29 linear foot (1 box)

Summary

These papers of William Chandler, Lieutenant in the United States Navy, include a logbook, a journal, text books and notes about seamanship and navigation, and other related materials. Included is a logbook of the U.S. prize schooner Patuxent which Chandler, the ship's commander, kept from October 7-November 25, 1845 while en route from Monrovia to New York. The first part of the logbook is missing, and entries end while the ship was in Bermuda undergoing repairs. There are remarks about chronometer no. 114 at the back of the volume.
Chandler's journal of a cruise aboard the U.S.S. Constellation from Norfolk, Virginia to the West Indies, Key West, and Pensacola, Florida, contains entries made between July 28, 1835 and February 15, 1836. He mentions reinforcements and protection given to residents of Tampa, Florida. Other materials in the collection include text books on seamanship in the U.S. Navy (1832); watch, quarter, and station bills of the U.S.S. Grampus (1837); notes on seamanship (1839); stations and missives of the U.S.S. St. Mary's (1848); watch and quarter bills, stations, and missives of a frigate (1854); and a list of the leading lights of St. George's (Irish) Channel (1864).

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Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Call Number

MssCol 514

OCLC

758977057

Author

Chandler, William.

Title

William Chandler papers, 1832-1864.

Restricted Access

Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Added Author

Patuxent (Schooner)

Research Call Number

MssCol 514