Box 5

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series includes personal journals of captains, crew, and one ship’s doctor spanning the 19th and 20th centuries. One journal by William Leverreth Hudson (1794-1862) recalls the travels of the U.S.S. Vincennes through Southeast Asia including Singapore, Borneo, Cape Town (South Africa), and the Island of St. Helena in 1842. The series includes personal correspondence and journals from Ambrose Parsons written en route to China (1859), and the journal of James F. Smith to and from...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series includes personal journals of captains, crew, and one ship’s doctor spanning the 19th and 20th centuries. One journal by William Leverreth Hudson (1794-1862) recalls the travels of the U.S.S. Vincennes through Southeast Asia including Singapore, Borneo, Cape Town (South Africa), and the Island of St. Helena in 1842. The series includes personal correspondence and journals from Ambrose Parsons written en route to China (1859), and the journal of James F. Smith to and from...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains signal books from the Italian-Neapolitan fleet (1813), a ship list from the British Royal Navy (1798), as well as protests from the Island of Haiti’s United States Agency filed for the ship William Taylor from 1816-1817. Also included in this series is one folder of records, primarily correspondence, of whaling ventures by Preston Cummings of Fall Rivers, Massachusetts, as well as the papers of the U.S.S. Rolla, including correspondence and contact information from the...