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                              #3190
                 U.S.S. NORTH CAROLINA SHIP LOGS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Daily logbooks of the U.S.S. North Carolina,
           cruising the Mediterranean under the command of Capt.
           John Rodgers (1771-1838), noting daily position,
           weather, activities on board, and places sighted and
           visited.  One volume covers the period 14 November
           1825 - 31 March 1827; the second, kept by W. S. Ogden,
           4 February - 16 August 1826.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Log-books--History--19th century.
   Mediterranean Region--Description and travel--19th century.
   North Carolina (Ship).
   Ogden, W. S., fl. 1826.
   Rodgers, John, 1773-1838.
   United States. Navy--Sea life--History--19th century.
   Voyages and travels--History--19th century.

Size: 2 items (0.3 feet).

             
Provenance:    Purchased from W. H. Lowdermilk & Co. of
               Washington, D.C., in December 1955, and received
               from Winston Broadfoot, Chapel Hill, North
               Carolina, in 1985.

Access:  No restrictions.

Copyright:  Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
            their descendants, as stipulated by United States
            copyright law.

Table of Contents:
   Description
   Shelf List

                           DESCRIPTION

Volume 1:  14 November 1825- 31 March 1827.  "Journal of a cruise
           in the U.S.S. North Carolina under the command of Com.
           John Rodgers."  Daily log showing position, winds,
           course, remarks on towns and places passed, gun
           exercises, vessels sighted, discipline, activities on
           board and miscellaneous information.  

           During this period the ship was at Gibraltar, Mahon on
           Minorca, the African Coast, the Greek islands,
           Carthagena, Toulon, and off Sicily and Sardinia, and
           at many other Mediterranean ports, islands, and
           waters.  Rodgers (1771-1838), veteran naval officer
           whose services included Tripoli and the War of 1812
           and who had served as acting secretary of navy in
           1823, was commodore of the U.S. Mediterranean Squadron
           from 1824-1827. 

Volume 2:  4 February - 16 August, 1826, 63 pp.  Journal kept on
           board the U.S.S. North Carolina by W.S. Ogden (a
           midshipman ?).  Entries are daily, usually brief, and
           refer to such matters as winds, weather, position,
           signals made to other ships, naval exercises, and
           other routine activities.  

           During the period covered by this journal, the U.S.S.
           North Carolina was commanded by John Rodgers.  During
           this period, the squadron moved from its winter
           quarters at Port Mahon, Minorca (leased from Spain) to
           Gibraltar, along the North African coast, and then to
           Greece and Turkey.

   Note:  For a history of the U.S.S. North Carolina see "The
Sight Was...Magnificent: The Old North Carolina,"  by J.G. de
Roulhac Hamilton, News and Observer (Raleigh, N.C.), 29 July
1956.

                           SHELF LIST

   Box 1 (only).