JOURNAL, LIEUTENANT ELIE A. F. VALLETTE
USS CONSTITUTION, 1 MARCH 1826 – 4 JULY 1828
in USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM

1826

1 Mar – In Port Mahon, Minorca – pleasant weather – Launch watering – 3 carpenters at work in Porpoise -- 4^th cutter mentioned – shipped Boy Maceo

Cabedo

2 Mar – Pleasant weather – 5 carpenters at work in Porpoise – Boatswain and gang ashore making rope

3 Mar – Light airs.

4 Mar – Pleasant weather – 0900 mustered all hands

5 Mar – [Sunday] Moderate breezes – 1100 Divine Service and read Navy regulations – Quartermaster John Neal disrated – Seaman John Wood made

Quartermaster – beat to quarters at sunset

6 Mar – Turning powder – got on board all sails; bent on courses, topsails, jib, foretopmast staysail and panker – 3^rd cutter mentioned – beat to quarters at sunset

7 Mar – Moderate breezes – watering – shipped Ordy Antonio Miller – “filled up our water.”

8 Mar – Pleasant weather – 5 carpenters in Porpoise -- received from North Carolina 48 pairs of shoes and 150 lbs iron.

9 Mar – Fine weather – hauled up launch for repair – beat to quarters at sunset.

10 Mar – Pleasant weather – beat to quarters at sunset – rain before midnight.

11 Mar – Moderate breezes – beat to quarters at sunset.

12 Mar – Light airs – 11 Divine Service and muster – inspected at quarters at sunset.

13 Mar – Pleasant weather – 1000 beat to quarters for inspection – Brig General Bolivar arrived with stores, 48 days from Boston.

14 Mar – Pleasant weather.

15 Mar – Pleasant weather – watering – beat to quarters at sunset for inspection.

16 Mar – Light breezes – launch watering.

17 Mar – Light airs – received from General Bolivar 6 hogshead of molasses containing 585 gallons, and 3casks of slops.

18 Mar – Fresh breezes and cloudy – received 30 bbls of pork – received from Erie 3 boxes of shoes and 1 box of silk handkerchiefs – received from Genera

Bolivar 70 bbls of bread, and 9 bbls and 7 hogsheads of beans

19 Mar – Pleasant weather – 1100 performed Divine Service and inspected the crew – beat to quarters at sunset.

20 Mar – Moderate to fresh breezes – received 115 bbls of bread – 1600 set out stream anchor ahead with 85 fathoms chain – beat to quarters at sunset.

21 Mar – Fresh breezes and cloudy – light rain showers – received 110 bbls of bread – weighed the stream anchor – received from the Custom House 4

hogsheads of clothing for the Purser

22 Mar – Pleasant weather – beat to quarters at sunset.

23 Mar – Rainy – received 2 cords of firewood from General Bolivar – launch watering.

24 Mar –Fresh breezes.

25 Mar – Light to moderate breezes -- pleasant weather.

26 Mar – Squally – 1115 inspected the crew at quarters.

27 Mar – Pleasant weather – 1000 exercised at sails

28 Mar – Moderate breezes and cloudy – sent 12 men to brig Splendid to assist in her unloading.

29 Mar – Light variable winds and cloudy – still unloading Splendid – Received 28 bbls of pork, 23 of beef, 4 tierces and ½ bbl of beans, [?] 31 ¼ bushels, 27

kegs of butter (1500 lbs), 1 coil of 7” rope, 3 coils of 3 ½, 3 of 3”, 2 of 2 ½”, 32 bolts of Russia, 4 of No. 5 canvas, 400 hammocks, 27 bbls of flour,

and 1 hogshead of molasses containing 116 gals.

30 Mar – Pleasant – 12 men on board “the Transport.”

31 Mar – Fresh breezes – launch watering -- 1300 2 carpenters to Porpoise – beat to quarters at sunset.

April

1 Apr – Pleasant weather – 2 carpenters in Porpoise – cloudy with rain late in the day.

2 Apr – Rainy – 1030 Divine Service; inspected the crew at quarters – pleasant by evening.

3 Apr – Moderate breezes – launch watering

4 Apr – Pleasant weather – 2 carpenters on board Porpoise – received from Custom House 3 casks of vinegar containing 215 gallons.

5 Apr – Pleasant weather – scrubbed hammocks – 2 carpenters on board Porpoise – provision ship Balloon arrived – at sunset beat to quarters for inspection.

6 Apr – Moderate breezes – sent the launch to the stores ship and received 238 bbls of bread –1200 sent a gang to help unload stores ship – setting up rigging.

7 Apr – Pleasant weather – received 25 bbls of whiskey and 55 bbls of bread -- from stores ship – bending on kysails and studding sails -- received 30 bbls of

whiskey.

8 Apr – Pleasant – 1000 crossed topgallant yards and hoisted in the launch and 1^st Cutter 1800 received 2 tierces of clothing from North Carolina.

9 Apr – Pleasant weather; later, cloudy.

10 Apr – Cloudy – 0740 crossed royal yards – 0930 weighed the larboard anchor and made sail; boats towing ship out of harbor – discharged the pilot and

hoisted in the 4^th cutter – draft fwd, 22’ 9 ½”; aft, 20’ 8 ½” 800 Ontario on larboard quarter, Balloon astern, and 2 French ships ahead – at sunset beat

to quarters –.North Carolina and Porpoise in company.

11 Apr – Moderate breezes – North Carolina and Porpoise in company.

12 Apr – Light breezes.

13 Apr – Fresh breezes – coast of Spain in sight.

14 Apr – Breezes freshening to moderate – 10 kts (2 hrs) – North Carolina on starboard beam; Porpoise astern.

15 Apr – Moderate breezes – Rock of Gibraltar in sight ahead on starboard bow.

16 Apr – Light breezes – 0630 anchored in 17 fathoms at Gibraltar – later in morning remoored with 2 anchors in water of similar depth – out all boats.

17 Apr – Pleasant weather – launch watering.

18 Apr – Light to fresh breezes.

19 Apr – Light breezes – launch watering.

20 Apr – Moderate breezes – launch watering – received in Gunner’s Department 28 lbs iron wire, 12 handles, 100 sheets of horn, 2 sides bellows leather, 3 lbs

shoe thread, 2 brass lamps, 1 pen knife, 2 bolts of raven duck,6 lbs of camphor and 12 handspikes; in the Carpenter’s Department, 2 white wash

brushes, 12 handsaw files, 12 whip files, 12 lbs Glue, 20 sheets of sand paper, 300 iron screws, 12 lbs 10^d nails, 10 lbs 8^d do., 18 lbs 6^d do., 18 lbs 4^d

do., 8 lbs 3^d do., 8 lbs sheathing nails, 3 lbs scupper do., 10 lbs cut do., 2000 copper tacks, 2000 iron do., 6 chisels, 6 goughes [sic], 1 hand vice, 100

quills, 24 yards of fearnought, 000 rivets, 1 lb vermillion [sic], 20 lbs Letheridge [sic], 3 lbs crome [sic] yellow, and 10lbs Venetian red.

21 Apr – Moderate breezes – launch getting stores - rainy afternoon – received in the Gunner’s Department 470 lbs bolt iron, 73 lbs square do., 363 lbs bar do.,

40 spike rods, 158 lbs bolt copper, 6 lbs sheet iron, 12 lbs Pewter solder; in the Carpenter’s Department, 6 quires of writing paper, 58 lbs hoop iron,

300 lbs white lead, 200 lbs black paint, 50 lbs verdigris, 50 gals spirits of turpentine, 100 gals linseed oil, 100 ash staves, 600 ft 1” pine boards, 200 ft

oak plank, 24 ft ½” oak boards, 3 hatchets, 5 hammers, 7 rules, 2 compass saws, 2 files, 1 socket chisel, 3 pr of compasses, 1 spoke sheeve, 30

Gimlets, 9 rivetting heads.

22 Apr – Fresh breezes – shipped Sea Josp Hull – rain – Dr Osborne joined.

23 Apr – Intermittent rain – Dr. Jackson departed for the US – strong gales in afternoon – sent down lower yards, housed topgallant masts, and rigged in flying jib

boom – heavy rain in evening.

24 Apr – Flying clouds – sent up lower yards, fidded topgallant masts, and rigged out flying jib boom – 0800 hoisted English ensign at the fore royal masthead in

honor of King George IV’s birthday – 1200 Commodore fired 21 gun salute – “Eliakim Swan and George Allen Quarter masters.”

25 Apr – Pleasant weather – received in the Carpenters Department 1 Saw Rim, 1 doz paint brushes, 1 doz plain irons, 100 lbs putty, 128’ of timber, 15 lbs chalk;

in the Gunner’s Department , 52 lbs steel, 6 ¼ lbs brass wire –launch watering.

26 Apr – Pleasant weather – launch getting stores – received in Master’s Department 1 ream of foolscap paper, 1 piece of cotton muslin, 2 papers sewing needles,

200 quills, 12 papers black ink, and 4 red do. – launch brought 5 boxes of sugar and 4 of tea.

27 Apr – Light breeze – received in the Purser’s Department 1 case of stationary [sic], 17 boxes of cigars, 11 kegs of tobacco, and 5 boxes of blue Nankeen –

launch watering.

28 Apr -- Pleasant weather – launch watering – received 5 bbls of tar – shipped Boy Jas Hunt.

29 Apr – Moderate breezes – received on board 200 bushels of sea coal – launch watering received 1 bbl of turpentine, 144 boxes of raisons [sic], 3 do. of

Prunes, 2 do. of candles, 2 bbls of rice, 1 small of do., and 6 boxes of cheeses –Surgeon’s Mate J. R. Brooke joined.

30 Apr – Light breezes – 1100 Divine Service, read Articles of War, mustered crew.

May

1 May – Light airs – 0525 Surgeon’s Mate DeWitt Birch died – received and stowed an anchor weighing 7025 lbs – launch watering – Surgeon’s Mate Birch

interred ashore during the 1^st dog watch – beat to quarters at sunset for inspection.

2 May – Moderate breeze – returned to North Carolina 2 gals of turpentine and 150 lbs of iron – received in Gunner’s Department 8 drum heads, 100 quills and

6 hanks of cat gut – beat to quarters at sunset.

3 May – Moderate breezes – setting up topmast rigging, staying masts, etc. – received on board 40 bushels of sea coal, 20 do. of charcoal, and 114 gals of lamp

oil – launch watering – beat to quarters at sunset.

4 May – Pleasant – launch watering – received in the Carpenter’s Department 1 bbl of pitch.

5 May –Light breezes – mended sails – launch watering.

6 May – Pleasant – scrubbed and washed clothes – received in the Carpenter’s Department 2 hides of leather and 1 grindstone – launch watering – received 15

chests of tea and 20 boxes of sugar – beat to quarters at sunset – shipped Ordy Josp Berham.

7 May – [Sunday] Pleasant weather – 1000 inspected the crew by divisions – beat to quarters for inspection at sunset.

8 May -- Cloudy – 0700 called all hands to mend sail – light rain – launch watering – pleasant by evening.

9 May – Light breezes – launch watering – beat to quarters at sunset.

10 May – Moderate breezes – launch watering.

11 May – Cloudy with rain – launch watering.

12 May – Light breezes – launch watering – received from Navy Store 5 boxes and 1 bag of cheese – discharged Ordy Saml Cooper.

13 May – Cloudy with rain – launch watering – hoisted in launch, 1^st, 3^rd, and 4^th cutters.

14 May – Cloudy with rain – 1100 mustered the crew by divisions.

15 May – Cloudy.

16 May – Pleasant – 0545 sent up topgallant and royal yards – 0615 unmoored ship – 0700 underway –North Carolina and Porpoise in company – draft aft, 22’

6”; fwd, 21’ 5” – entered Mediterranean Sea.

17 May – Spain in sight – North Carolina and Porpoise on larboard beam – exercised the gun deck divisions - 1930 inspected the crew at quarters.

18 May – Spain in sight – 1645 beat to quarters and exercised the crew.

19 May – African coast in sight to starboard; the squadron, to larboard –beat to quarters at sunset.

20 May – Moderate breezes – Africa still in sight – North Carolina now on larboard beam and Porpoise astern – 10 kts (6 hrs) – 1600 standing in for Algiers.

21 May – Light airs.

22 May – Calm.

23 May – Moderate breezes – 1230 anchored in 20 fathoms with 40, later 55 fathoms of chain.

24 May – 1730 squadron underway.

25 May – Pleasant weather.

26 May –0900 Porpoise ordered to Port Mahon – beat to quarters at sunset.

27 May – Light airs – North Carolina on starboard beam ½ mile – beat to quarters at sunset.

28 May – Light airs – inspected the crew at divisions during forenoon watch – Divine Service – read Articles of War – North Carolina on starboard bow – at

sunset beat to quarters

29 May – Light airs – 1600 sighted southern end of Sardinia – 1600 beat to quarters. – 2030 Sea Edwd Cogswell ied.

30 May – 0920 Cogswell buried at sea – North Carolina ahead.

31 May – Cloudy – 1600 standing in to the Bay of Tunis – 1900 anchored with starboard anchor in 7 fathoms with 42 fathoms of cable.

1 Jun – Pleasant weather – hoisted out 4^th cutter – replaced main and mizzen topsails Porpoise arrived during afternoon watch – beat to quarters at sunset.

2 Jun – Fresh breezes – 100 sent 1^st and 4^th cutters to sweep for the anchor Constitution lost in Jul 1825; unsuccessful – hoisted in the cutters – at sunset beat to

quarters

3 Jun – Moderate breezes – received from North Carolina 8 bolts of canvas (3, #6 and 5, #5) – 1200 Ontario standing in – received from her 1 box of slops –

beat to quarters at sunset.

4 Jun – Light breezes – 0640 squadron underway – 1030 beat to quarters for inspection 1200 North Carolina ahead; Ontario and Porpoise on larboard

quarter.

5 Jun – Light breezes – 1200 Pantelleria I. to starboard – 1800 Sicily I. to larboard—beat to quarters at sunset.

6 Jun – Fresh breezes – beat to quarters at sunset – found binnacle compass differs from flagship by ½ to ¾ point – 2400 North Carolina on larboard bow;

Ontario and Porpoise on larboard beam

7 Jun – Pleasant.

8 Jun – Light breezes.

9 Jun – Light breezes.

10 Jun – Light variable wind – 1600 took a pilot – 2230 anchored in 22 fathoms in Milo harbor.

11 Jun – Calm – 1000 mustered by divisions – 1030 Divine Service.

12 Jun – Light breezes – 1^st cutter watering –“starboard binnacle” mentioned.

13 Jun – Moderate to fresh breezes – sent Ontario 4 40-gallon casks – HBMS Cambrian arrived.

14 Jun – Light airs – 0400 Cambrian sailed – 0445 Underway – in company with Cambrian.

15 Jun – Fresh breezes – Porpoise sighted anchored in Delos harbor – 1130 anchored in 7 fathoms with 48 fathoms chain in Auso [sp?] harbor – out 1^st and 4^th

cutters – beat to quarters at sunset

16 Jun – Fresh breezes – 1^st cutter watering – beat to quarters at sunset.

17 Jun – Pleasant weather – 1^st and 4^th cutters in.

18 Jun – Light breezes – 0500 underway – squadron in company – 1100 Divine Service – North Carolina ¾ mile on starboard bow – beat to quarters at sunset –

2400 Scio Island on starboard beam.

19 Jun – Light baffling winds – 1645 made a running moor at Vourla.

20 Jun – Light breezes – 0400-0800 scrubbed hammocks – launch watering – beat to quarters for inspection at sunset.

21 Jun – Light airs -- launch watering – 3^rd Division on shore scrubbing clothes – at sunset beat to quarters.

22 Jun – Light airs – launch watering – 4^th division on shore washing clothes – painting – beat to quarters at sunset.

23 Jun – Moderate breezes – 1^st Division on shore washing clothes – Porpoise arrived from Smyrna – beat to quarters at sunset.

24 Jun – Light breezes – 5^th Division on shore washing clothes – launch watering – beat to quarters for inspection at sunset.

25 Jun – Moderate breezes – launch completed watering – 1000 Divine Service and inspected crew at quarters.

26 Jun – Fresh breezes – 2^nd and 6^th Divisions ashore washing clothes – 0830 Ontario underway for Smyrna with Captain Patterson a passenger – beat to

quarters at sunset.

27 Jun – Moderate breezes – launch watering – beat to quarters at sunset.

28 Jun – Fresh breezes – hoisted in the launch, 1^st and 4^th cutters – at sunset beat to quarters.

29 Jun – Moderate breezes – setting up main rigging, staying masts, etc. – Ontario arrived from Smyrna – beat to quarters at sunset.

30 Jun – Moderate breezes – sent 6 bbls pork to Erie – 0815 underway with squadron – 35,150 gals water on board.—1600 anchored in 15 fathoms with 50

fathoms cable.

July

1 Jul – Moderate breezes – 0400 underway with squadron – beating between Mytilene and Scio.

2 Jul – Fresh breezes – North Carolina on starboard beam; Ontario and Porpoise astern

3 Jul – Fresh breezes – beating up between Tenedos I. and Turkey – 1130 anchored in 2 fathoms with 60 fathoms of cable – beat to quarters at sunset

4 Jul – Fresh breezes – 4^th cutter hoisted out – 1030 Turkish fleet of 21 sail in sight – 1130 beat to quarters and cleared the ship for action – 1200 a Turkish

frigate ran aground following an exchange of salutes hoisted in 4^th cutter – 1545 Porpoise underway.

5 Jul – Fresh breezes – at sunset beat to quarters for inspection.

6 Jul – Fresh breezes – hoisting 3 repeaters together in the future will be the signal for units to send boats ashore for fresh provisions

7 Jul – Moderate breezes – 0700 Porpoise underway – 1100 Porpoise “anchored under fort at Tenedos” 1300 sent boat on shore for fresh provisions – beat to

quarters at sunset – 2130 Porpoise returned to old anchorage.

8 Jul – Moderate breezes – hoisted out barge – 1400 hoisted out 1^st and 4^th cutters; sent former for fresh provisions – hoisted in boats and beat to quarters at

sunset.

9 Jul – Fresh breezes – hoisted in barge – 0430 underway – headed for mouth of Dardanelles – 1800 North Carolina ahead; Ontario and Porpoise astern

10 Jul – Light breezes – standing through the Gulf of Adramytti – 1620 anchored in the Bay of Mytilene in 18 fathoms with starboard anchor and 80 fathoms chain

– beat to quarters at sunset.

11 Jul – Pleasant – 0730 mended sails – 1500 hoisted out 1^st cutter to get fresh provisions - beat to quarters at sunset.

12 Jul – Light breezes – 1830 Ontario underway – beat to quarters at sunset.

13 Jul – Moderate breezes – beat to quarters at sunset.

14 Jul – Light breezes – Turkish fleet of 30 sail in sight – 0730 Turkish admiral anchored 0930 got underway, standing off the town – 1000-1100 Captain Patterson

off the ship [apparently meeting with Commodore] -- 1100 2 Turkish 74s and others not yet anchored – 1530 reanchored in 21 fathoms with 60 fathoms

chain, 2 cables from Commodore – 1710 Porpoise anchored – 1845 an Austrian man-of-war and convoy arrived.

15 Jul – Moderate breezes – hoisted out barge and 4^th cutter –beat to quarters at sunset – hoisted in barge, 1^st, and 4^th cutters.

16 Jul – Moderate breezes – 1000 Divine Service and read Articles of War – 1430 Porpoise sailed – 1730 underway – 2400 North Carolina at ¼ mile.

17 Jul – Light breezes – 0400 North Carolina and Porpoise ahead – 0715 anchored at Vourla with larboard anchor in 11 fathoms with 60 fathoms cable –

hoisted out all boats for watering – 1420 Porpoise arrived – launch watering – beat to quarters at sunset.

18 Jul – Light airs – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

19 Jul – Pleasant -- launch watering – setting up rigging.

20 Jul –Moderate breezes – 1500 Porpoise underway – launch watering – beat to quarters at sunset.

21 Jul – Pleasant weather – 0700 called all hands to mend sails -- beat to quarters at sunset

22 Jul – Pleasant weather – 0330 Erie arrived – Porpoise returned from Smyrna during morning watch – launch watering – received 2 boatloads of wood –

launch watering Erie – 1500 Captain Patterson took passage to Smyrna in Porpoise –

23 Jul -- Received via 4^th cutter 7 ½ cords of wood – launch watering – 1100 Divine Service and inspected crew -- beat to quarters at sunset.

24 Jul – Moderate airs – delivered 12 bbls of pork to Erie – beat to quarters at sunset.

25 Jul – Light airs – 1000 Porpoise came to anchor – launch watering her – 1830 beat to quarters.

26 Jul – Light airs – 1130 Erie underway – surveyed and condemned 3 bbls of flour – at sunset beat to quarters – draft, fwd 20’ 6”; aft, 22’ 2 ½”.

27 Jul – Moderate breezes – launch watering a Dutch brig – 1100 Dutchman got underway – French frigate Galatea arrived during afternoon watch – 1900

Ontario arrived.

28 Jul – Clear – 1330 Erie arrived.

29 Jul – Light winds – 0330 Galatea underway – 1030 fired gun and hoisted the jack for a court-martial – 1540 court adjourned – beat to quarters at sunset.

30 Jul – Pleasant – 0700 called all hands to mend sails – 1000 inspected the crew by ivisions – beat to quarters at sunset for inspection.

31 Jul – Pleasant weather – 0430 HBMS Seringapatam arrived -- 1030 court-martial resumed – sent on board Erie 4 kegs of tobacco – received from North

Carolina 2000 lbs of junk – 1600 court adjourned.

August

1 Aug -- 1000 court-martial convened – 1220 Seringapatam departed – 1540 court adjourned –beat to quarters at sunset.

2 Aug – Fresh breezes – 1000 court convened – 1400 Porpoise underway for Smyrna – court adjourned beat to quarters.

3 Aug – Pleasant – 1000 HBMS Cambrian and Rose got underway.—beat to quarters at sunset for inspection – Porpoise returned during evening watch.

4 Aug – Pleasant – launch watering – 1000 court assembled – 1545 court adjourned – beat to quarters at sunset.

5 Aug – Pleasant -- scrubbing hammocks and bags – launch watering – 1030 court assembled – 1700 court adjourned – beat to quarters at sunset.

6 Aug – [Sunday] Launch watering – 1000 Divine Service, inspected the crew at quarters.

7 Aug – Pleasant weather – launch watering – beat to quarters at sunset.

8 Aug – Beat to quarters at sunset.

9 Aug – Light airs – launch watering – draft, fwd 20’ 4”; aft, 23’ 3” – at sunset beat to quarters.

10 Aug – Pleasant weather – raised the kedge and got it into the main chains – hoisted in the 1^st and 4^th cutters – 1745 got underway – Dutch frigate Diana arrived

– 1840 reanchored.

11 Aug – Light breezes – 0950 underway.

12 Aug – off south coast of Mytilene – met Turkish squadron – beating out of Gulf of Smyrna, North Carolina ahead, Erie and Porpoise “to leeward” – beat to

quarters at sunset.

13 Aug – Pleasant – Scio on larboard beam – 2400 standing between Andros and Negropont, North Carolina ahead.

14 Aug – 0745 Anchored in lee of Cape Colonna – 1745 underway – 2000 North Carolina ahead.

15 Aug – 0530 anchored in Milo harbor in 13 fathoms with 50 fathoms of cable – carpenters unstocking and stocking “larboard waste [sic]” anchor – beat to

quarters for inspection at sunset

16 Aug – Fresh breezes – beat to quarters at sunset.

17 Aug – Fresh breezes – hoisting and stowing a broken anchor – beat to quarters for inspection at sunset.

18 Aug – Moderate breezes – beat to quarters for inspection at sunset.

19 Aug – Pleasant – LT W. M. Armstrong transferred to Ontario – LT Wm F. Shields received from Ontario – beat to quarters for inspection at sunset

20 Aug -- Light airs – 1100 Divine Service; inspected the crew at quarters – beat to quarters at sunset.

21 Aug – Pleasant – 0540 underway with squadron.

22 Aug – Passing Cape Matapan.

23 Aug – Light airs – 0800 North Carolina ahead ¾ mile – 1400 sent 3^rd cutter on board North Carolina - 1700 3^rd cutter returned with 1000 lbs of bread –

beat to quarters at sunset.

24 Aug – Pleasant weather – 1200 North Carolina ahead; Porpoise, astern – 1430 North Carolina and Porpoise ahead – beat to quarters for inspection at

sunset.

25 Aug – Moderate breezes – at sunset beat to quarters.

26 Aug – Moderate to light breezes – at sunset beat to quarters.

27 Aug – Moderate breezes – 1350 North Carolina on larboard bow ½ mile; Porpoise, “ahead” – beat to quarters at sunset – 2400 North Carolina and

Porpoise on larboard beam.

28 Aug – Light breezes – 1030 beat to quarters and mustered crew – 1600 North Carolina and Porpoise ahead – 1825 – Malta sighted on starboard bow

29 Aug – Moderate breezes – 1220 sent 3^rd cutter to North Carolina – 1540 hove to off Valletta, Malta — received from North Carolina 1200 lbs bread –

1845 made sail, North Carolina on larboard bow.

30 Aug – Light airs – 1200 north of Gozo I. – beat to quarters at sunset – 2000-2400 North Carolina on larboard bow.

31 Aug – Light breezes – 1600 Sicily sighted to the north – 1700 North Carolina ahead – at sunset beat to quarters.

September

1 Sep – Light airs – 1200 North Carolina ahead – 1600 North Carolina on larboard beam – beat to quarters – 2400 North Carolina ahead.

2 Sep – Light breezes – 0800 North Carolina on larboard beam – 1200-1600 North Carolina ahead – beat to quarters at sunset –2230 heavy squalls with

lightning; called all hands to reef topsails.

3 Sep – [Sunday] Squally – 1100 mustered the crew by divisions – 1200 North Carolina ahead 1 mile – 1500-2000 North Carolina ½ mile ahead – beat to

quarters at sunset – 2400 North Carolina 1 mile on larboard bow.

4 Sep – Fresh gales and cloudy – 1200 North Carolina ¼ mile ahead – 1800 North Carolina ½ mile on larboard bow – at sunset beat to quarters.

5 Sep – Moderate breeze – 1200-2000 North Carolina on larboard bow – at sunset beat to quarters for inspection.

6 Sep – Light breezes – 0800 North Carolina on starboard bow – 1810 beat to quarters for inspection – 2000 North Carolina on larboard bow.

7 Sep – Moderate breezes – 0400 North Carolina on larboard bow – 1000 Minorca sighted ahead – 1500 received pilot – stormy.

8 Sep – 1100 carried away the foot of the foresail; replaced it – beat to quarters at sunset.

9 Sep – Light breezes – 0745 anchored in Port Mahon in 13 fathoms – Erie present – 0800 hoisted out boats; remoored with both anchors – beat to quarters at

sunset.

10 Sep – Light airs – 1000 Divine Service and inspected crew at quarters – beat to quarters at sunset.

11 Sep – Light airs – launch watering – carpenters working “under the stern” – painting ship – received 60 bbls bread and 10 bbls whiskey beat to quarters at

sunset.

12 Sep –Light airs and cloudy, some rain – setting up rigging – painting continues – caulking under the counter – launch watering – sent 19 bbls of slush to

Quarantine I. – hauled up 1^st cutter for repairs – beat to quarters at sunset.

13 Sep – Moderate breezes – launch watering – replaced mainsail and main topsail – at sunset beat to quarters.

14 Sep – Light airs – launch watering – a gang on shore repairing 1^st and 3^rd cutters – Purser’s Department received 400 prs shoes – at sunset beat to quarters.

15 Sep – Light airs – launch watering – 1120 received 4 boatloads of wood – 1200 received 330 gals whiskey,, 104 bbls bread, 18 bbls flour, 54 bushels of

beans, and 3 bbls of lime – at sunset beat to quarters.

16 Sep – Cloudy – in forenoon Lt Thos W Wyman left ship and Lt Robt B Randolph joined – sent 1 bbl slush ashore – condemned 4 bbls flour and ½ tierce of rice – - at sunset beat to quarters for inspection -- 2100 Porpoise arrived.

17 Sep – Pleasant – launch watering – 0700 launch “shipped a sea and filled;” sent boats to assist – towed launch alongside; lost a hose and 1 cask – 1000

inspected the crew at quarters – received 1 tierce of rice from Erie – 1200-1600 transferred to North Carolina Lt Ralph Voorhees, Surg Leonard

Osborne, Midn Morrice and Dixon, CarpMt Abraham S. Morrell, Boy Edwd Ross, Privates Scott,Walsh, Scofield, Scarlin, Paddy, Clifford, Marsh,

Dorran [sic], Quin, Francis, and Cook. Received from Erie Marines Thompson, Egleston [sic], Clair, Cohen, Ward, Young, Pritchard, and Mower –

Acting Surg Waters M. Smith joined, together with Coxn Francis Slurrido [sp?] and Boy James Granville.

18 Sep – Moderate breezes – 0400-0800 transferred Coxn Peter Birch to Erie – 0800- 1200 received on board 96 bbls of bread – 1130 Erie departed – at

sunset beat to quarters.

19 Sep – Calm – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

20 Sep – Moderate airs – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

21 Sep – Light breezes – hoisted our 1^st and 3^rd cutters – hauled out 4^th cutter and whaleboat for repairs – at sunset beat to quarters.

22 Sep – Light airs.

23 Sep – Light airs – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

24 Sep – Light airs – 1000 Divine Service – 1030 beat to quarters for inspection – at sunset beat to quarters.

25 Sep – Pleasant – 0940 court-martial convened for trial of LT Carpenter, consisting of Capt D T Patterson, President, LTs R Voorhees, E. A. F. Vallette,

Mayo, Fitzhugh, J D Williamson, Wm Taylor, USMC LT Nicholson Judge Advocate.-- 1100 court adjourned – received a quantity of firewood – 1200-

1600 received in Purser’s Department 4 boxes of sugar – at sunset beat to quarters.

26 Sep – Light airs – at sunset beat to quarters.

27 Sep – Clear – a gang working on boats ashore – 1000 court convened; hoisted the jack at the main – 1430 court adjourned – at sunset beat to quarters.

28 Sep – Calm and clear – 1000 court convened – a gang on shore repairing and painting boats – 1500 court adjourned – at sunset beat to quarters.

29 Sep – Calm – 1000 court convened – 1530 court adjourned – at sunset beat to quarters.

30 Sep – Calm – launch watering – 1000 court convened – surveyed and condemned 58 fathoms of cable and 2 bbls of beef – 1545 court adjourned – at sunset

beat to quarters.

October

1 Oct – [Sunday] Clear – 1000 Divine Service and beat to quarters for inspection –at sunset beat to quarters.

2 Oct – Light airs – 0400-0800 squally with rain and lightning – 1030 court convened – 1230 court adjourned – at sunset beat to quarters.

3 Oct – Light airs – 1150 court convened – hoisted out gig and 4^th cutter – 1430 court adjourned – at sunset beat to quarters.

4 Oct -- Light breezes – received 22 bbls of pork, 304 bushels of beans – at sunset beat to quarters.

5 Oct – Cloudy with rain – at sunset beat to quarters.

6 Oct – Moderate breezes – 0800 hauled down the quarantine flag – sent the Marines on shore for drill – at sunset beat to quarters.

7 Oct – Cloudy with intervals of rain – sent on shore 6 casks of clothing from the Purser’s Department – at sunset beat to quarters.

8 Oct – Fresh breezes and cloudy – 1000 beat to quarters for inspection – 1700 QM Gustavus Henshaw fell from the main yard and was killed – at sunset beat to

quarters.

9 Oct – Moderate breezes – 1000 read sentence of court-martial of Lt Carpenter – 1200-600 received 60 bbls of bread – 1540 interred body of QM Henshaw

– at sunset beat to quarters.

10 Oct – Fresh breezes and squally – at sunset beat to quarters.

11 Oct – Moderate breezes – at sunset beat to quarters.

12 Oct – Moderate breezes – afternoon squally with rain – at sunset beat to quarters.

13 Oct – Moderate breezes – 0900 a stores brig arrived – received 40 bbls of bread – draft 20’4” fwd, 22’3’ aft – at sunset beat to quarters.

14 Oct – Fresh breezes, cloudy with heavy rain – 0800 hoisted a Spanish ensign to the fore truck in honor of the King of Spain’s birthday – received 10 bbls of

beef and 7 of pork – preparing for sea -- 1500 received in Boatswain’s Department 4 coils of rope, and in the Purser’s Department 1 bbl of molasses, 1

pipe of vinegar, 1600 gals of whiskey, 2 bbls of beans, and 10 boxes of candles, and in the Carpenter’s Department 1 anchor stock and 5 oak plank.

15 Oct –Moderate breezes with rain – 0900 hoisted in the launch and 1^st cutter and “Pelican” [boat’s name?] – at sunset beat to quarters.

16 Oct – Light airs.

17 Oct –Light airs – at sunset beat to quarters.

18 Oct – Fresh breezes and light rain – 1700 beat to quarters.

19 Oct – Light airs – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

20 Oct -- Flying clouds – launch watering – American store brig Volant arrived – carpenters David Halfpenny and John Dunlap sent on board Porpoise – at

sunset beat to quarters.

21 Oct – Moderate breezes – at sunset beat to quarters.

22 Oct – 1700 underway – 1730 anchored in 9 fathoms with 50 fathoms cable.

23 Oct – moderate breezes – hoisting out boats – at sunset beat to quarters – 1800 Lt C W Carpenter left the ship – Lt B Tallmadge, Purser J Timberlake, [?]

Thomas Cooper took passage on North Carolina for Gibraltar.

24 Oct – Light breezes – at sunset beat to quarters.

25 Oct -- Variable winds – 0840 sent all boats to tow North Carolina out of harbor – unbent all sails and sent them to the Navy Yard – Boatswain’s Department

received a coil of 7”, 5 of 6”, 3 of 4”, 1 of 3”, and 1 of 3 ½” rope, all sent to the Navy Yard – at sunset beat to quarters.

26 Oct – Light airs – sent a gang to unload Volant – hoisted the colors to half mast in memory of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, recently deceased 1200

cockbilled the yards and fired a 21-gun salute – 1245 fired a second 21-gun salute – squared the yards at sunset.

27 Oct – Fresh breezes – still unloading Volant – at sunset beat to quarters.

28 Oct – Fresh breezes – still unloading Volant – received in Sailmaker’s Department from Store 1 bolt of No. 1 canvas and 5 of No. 2 – at sunset beat to

quarters.

29 Oct – Fresh breezes – 1100 Divine Service and beat to quarters for inspection.

30 Oct – Moderate breezes.

31 Oct – Fresh breezes.

November

1 Nov – Moderate breezes.

2 Nov – Squally.

3 Nov – Squally with hail and rain.

4 Nov – [Sunday] Light breezes.

5 Nov – Moderate breezes – 1100 mustered the crew by divisions.

6 Nov – Cloudy with occasional rain.

7 Nov – Moderate airs.

8 Nov – Fresh breezes.

9 Nov – Fresh breezes.

10 Nov – Flying clouds – scraping ship – received 1 coil of 3 ½” rope.

11 Nov – Moderate breeze.

12 Nov – 1030 Divine Service – 1100 mustered the crew at quarters.

13 Nov – Pleasant -- sending down rigging and main yard – Boatswain’s Department received 2 sides of leather – scraping the bends.

14 Nov – Pleasant – at sunset beat to quarters.

15 Nov – Squally – received in the Purser’s Department 1 box of blue jackets; the Sailing Master’s Department, wood and charcoal – at sunset beat to quarters.

16 Nov – Fresh airs –at sunset beat to quarters.

17 Nov – Moderate breezes – swaying up topgallant masts and lower yards, and rigging out the flying jib boom.

18 Nov – Light airs.

19 Nov – 1000 Divine Service, read the Articles of War, and inspected the crew at quarters.

20 Nov – Clear – Carpenter’s Department received 197 lbs of white lead and 10 gals of paint oil – at sunset beat to quarters.

21 Nov – Rainy – at sunset beat to quarters.

22 Nov – Moderate breezes – Carpenter’s Department received 55 lbs of black paint and 4 gals of [?] oil.

23 Nov – Moderate breezes with rain – exercised the 5^th Division at quarters – at sunset beat to quarters.

24 Nov – Fresh breezes – exercised the 1^st Division at quarters – 1300 ships visited by Dutch admiral from Holland (74), salutes exchanged -- at sunset beat to

quarters.

25 Nov – Cloudy – 1800 beat to quarters.

26 Nov – Moderate breezes -- at sunset beat to quarters for inspection.

27 Nov – Moderate breezes – North Carolina arrived – shipped Sea Nicholas Post – at sunset beat to quarters.

28 Nov --Cloudy with rain – returned from North Carolina Lt Tallmadge, Purser J. B. Timberlake, and Carpenter H. Thomas – 1800 beat to quarters for

inspection.

29 Nov – Pleasant. – at sunset beat to quarters.

30 Nov – Clear – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

December

1 Dec – Clear – launch watering – sent 5 bushels coal to Porpoise – at sunset beat to quarters for inspection.

2 Dec – Flying clouds – 0930 North Carolina and Porpoise departed – sent 123 bushels of rice ashore – sent to the Navy Yard Store 27 bbls of rice – at sunset

beat to quarters.

3 Dec – [Sunday] Light airs; rainy – 1030 Divine Service and inspected the crew at quarters – launch watering.

4 Dec – Fresh breezes – breaking out the Spirit Room – launch watering – received 44 ½ bushels of coal – at sunset beat to quarters.

5 Dec – Fresh breezes – received in the Purser’s Department 388 flannel shirts and 100 pr of drawers; in the Carpenter’s Department 58’ three-inch oak plank –

launch watering – beat to quarters at sunset.

6 Dec – Pleasant – launch watering – hoisted the Spanish flag at the fore in honor of the Queen of Spain’s birthday – shipped Ordy Joseph Landyeras.

7 Dec – Pleasant – launch watering.

8 Dec – Moderate breezes – launch watering – painting the barge – carpenters restocking an anchor ashore – at sunset beat to quarters.

9 Dec – Light airs – at sunset beat to quarters.

10 Dec – 1030 inspected the crew at quarters – at sunset beat to quarters.

11 Dec – Calm – received 35 bbls of pork, 15 of beef, and 12 of flour, as well as 200 gals of beans and 92 of vinegar – at sunset beat to quarters.

12 Dec – Calm – hauled up the launch for repairs – Sailmaker’s Department received 282 lbs of twine – setting up rigging – at sunset beat to quarters.

13 Dec – Light airs – received 50 bbls of bread and 21 bushels of charcoal – at sunset beat to quarters for inspection.

14 Dec – Light airs and cloudy – stowing the spirit room -- received 40 bbls of bread – at sunset beat to quarters.

15 Dec – Light airs and cloudy -- received 670 ½ gals of whiskey and 43 bbls of bread – at sunset beat to quarters for inspection.

16 Dec – Fresh breezes and squally – at sunset beat to quarters.

17 Dec – Fresh breezes with rain – 1000 inspected the crew at quarters.

18 Dec – Pleasant; rain later.

19 Dec – Fresh breezes – setting up rigging – received 2 bbls of oil -- at sunset beat to quarters.

20 Dec – Light airs – received in the Master’s Department 1 new cable – at sunset beat to quarters.

21 Dec – Light airs with occasional rain – received in the Purser’s Department 419 flannel shirts – 1140 called all hands to witness punishment.

22 Dec – Fresh breezes – hoisted topgallant masts and flying jib boom – at sunset beat to quarters.

23 Dec – Fresh breezes and cloudy – fifed the topgallant masts – at sunset beat to quarters.

24 Dec – Fresh breezes – 1100 beat to quarters for inspection.

25 Dec – Moderate breezes with rain.

26 Dec – Moderate breezes – at sunset beat to quarters.

27 Dec – Pleasant – received 1 anchor of 7010 lbs. – at sunset beat to quarters.

28 Dec – Pleasant – at sunset beat to quarters.

29 Dec – Fresh breezes –launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

30 Dec – Fresh breezes – housed topgallant masts.

31 Dec – Light airs – fidded topgallant masts – 1020 Divine Service, read Articles of War, and inspected the crew at quarters – at sunset beat to quarters.

1827

January

1 Jan – Light breezes.

2 Jan – cloudy – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

3 Jan – Pleasant – received in the Purser’s Department 8 boxes of clothing – lunch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

4 Jan – Hail and thunder – received 22 bushels of coal – at sunset beat to quarters.

5 Jan – Fresh breezes – at sunset beat to quarters.

6 Jan -- Fresh breezes.

7 Jan – [Sunday] Fresh breezes – 1030 inspected the crew at quarters—cloudy at sunset.

8 Jan – Moderate breezes – received 15 bushels of coal – 1200 fired a 17-gun salute in memory of the Battle of New Orleans.

9 Jan – Moderate breezes – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

10 Jan – Light air – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters for inspection.

11 Jan – Light breezes – launch completing watering -- at sunset beat to quarters.

12 Jan – Fresh breezes – at sunset beat to quarters.

13 Jan – Cloudy; calm – at sunset beat to quarters.

14 Jan – Moderate breezes – 1100 Divine Service and inspected the crew at quarters

15 Jan – Light breezes – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

16 Jan – Moderate breezes – exercised the 1^st Division at great guns and small arms – at sunset beat to quarters.

17 Jan – Pleasant – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

18 Jan –Light breezes – received on board 193 gals of whiskey, 6 bbls of flour, and 23 bbls of oil – at sunset beat to quarters – received in the Sailmaker’s

Department 70 ½ lbs of twine – 2000 rain; squally weather.

19 Jan – Fresh breezes; light rain – at sunset beat to quarters.

20 Jan – Fresh breezes – received 843 ½ gals whiskey, 167 bbls of bread, and 6 boxes of candles – at sunset beat to quarters.

21 Jan – Light airs – inspected the crew by divisions – launched the barge – the gig and 4^th Cutter repairing at the Yard.

22 Jan – Pleasant – at sunset beat to quarters.

23 Jan – Squally then pleasant – received in the Sailmaker’s Department 2 bolts of No. 1 canvas, 4 of No. 2, and 4 of No. 4 (American).

24 Jan – Moderate breezes – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

25 Jan – Light breezes – launch watering.

26 Jan – Light breezes and cloudy -- at sunset beat to quarters for inspection.

27 Jan – Hazy – at daylight began warping ship to upper harbor – 1100 moored in 6 fathoms on starboard anchor with 75 fathoms cable; larboard anchor with 100

fathoms.

28 Jan – Cloudy with rain – mustered the crew by divisions.

29 Jan – Cloudy with rain – received 5 bbls of flour, 15 bbls of pork, 25 ¼ bushels off beans, and 22 ½ bushels of charcoal.

30 Jan – Light airs and rain – received 65 [?].

31 Jan – Pleasant – at sunset beat to quarters for inspection.

February

1 Feb – Light airs – at sunset beat to quarters.

2 Feb – Light breezes – launch watering – sent running rigging to the Navy Yard – at sunset beat to quarters.

3 Feb –Light airs – launch watering – rain late.

4 Feb – [Sunday] Rain – at sunset beat to quarters for inspection.

5 Feb – Moderate breezes and rain – launch watering – beat to quarters for inspection.

6 Feb – Fresh breezes – sent on shore shot boxes, match tubs, and racks to be painted – at sunset beat to quarters – rain late.

7 Feb – Calm and cloudy – setting up lower and topmast rigging – at sunset beat to quarters.

8 Feb – Cloudy with rain – rattling down the rigging – at sunset beat to quarters.

9 Feb – Light to moderate breezes – rammers, sponges, and shot from main deck sent to Navy Yard – rattling down the rigging – received 80 bushels of charcoal

– launch watering – heavy showers and hail in afternoon – at sunset beat to quarters.

10 Feb – Light airs.

11 Feb – 1000 inspected the crew at quarters – at sunset beat to quarters.

12 Feb – Fresh breezes, then hail and rain; pleasant later -- painting gun deck.

13 Feb – Light airs.

14 Feb – Light airs – painting gun deck.

15 Feb – Light airs – panting masts and yards – 1^st and 2^nd Divisions ashore washing.

16 Feb – Light airs – 2^nd [sic] and 6^th Divisions ashore washing.

17 Feb – Light airs – 3^rd and 5^th Divisions ashore washing – rain in afternoon – received from the Store House 3 bbls of beef and 2 of pork.

18 Feb – Pleasant – 1130 Divine Service and mustered the crew by divisions.

19 Feb – Moderate breezes.-- hauled up the whaleboat for repairs – launch watering – shipped Ordys Henry Smith, Edwd Smith, John Robinson, and Malachi

Hawkins.

20 Feb – Light breezes – painting spar deck – received 6 bbls of beef, 6 of pork, and 3 of flour.

21 Feb – Moderate breezes – panting spar deck; blacking guns.

22 Feb – Pleasant; rain late – 1200 Fired 17-gun salute for Washington’s Birthday..

23 Feb – Fresh breezes .

24 Feb – Cloudy – discharged Ordy Gabriel Vandrel. – painting and scrubbing the ship’s bottom.

25 Feb – Pleasant – 1130 Divine Service and beat to quarters for inspection – painting outside of ship.

26 Feb – Light airs.

27 Feb – Light airs – received 19 bbls of pork, 21 of beef, 7 of flour, 40 gals of oil, 24 bushels of beans, and 6 bbls of lime – North Carolina arrived..

28 Feb – Light breezes -- starboard watch on shore scrubbing.

March

1 Mar – Light airs – Surgeon James Cormick joined – in afternoon, towed the ship “down the Harbour” and remoored in 9 fathoms

2 Mar – Light airs – “sent down the foretopgallt mast and housed the fore and mizzen [sic]” – stripping the mainmast – 1800 got down the main top.

3 Mar – Pleasant – 0930 surveyed the main mast and found it necessary to take it out – Midshipman A. A. Harwood appointed acting sailing master of the ship –

received on board 2 top masts from North Carolina for shears.

4 Mar – [Sunday] Light airs.

5 Mar – Cloudy with rain – 0730 weighed the main mast – 1100 got the mainmast overboard and towed it to the Navy Yard where it was hauled up under the

boat shed – at sunset beat to quarters.

6 Mar – Clear and calm – working on mainmast ashore – at sunset beat to quarters.

7 Mar – Moderate breezes – shipped Seas Francis Cordona and Martin Thys [sic] – llaunch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

8 Mar – Light breezes – discharged Sea Joseph Pablon – at sunset beat to quarters.

9 Mar – Fresh breezes – at sunset beat to quarters.

10 Mar – Pleasant – received 137 bbls of bread and in the Carpenter’s Department 10 lbs of white lead and 10 gals of paint oil – received in the Boatswain’s

Department 20 fathoms of 8” rope; in the Master’s Department 90 quintals of firewood.

11 Mar – Moderate breezes – 1100 beat to quarters and inspected the crew – at sunset beat to quarters.

12 Mar – Pleasant – 1000 convened the court-martial of Seas Robt Owens and Joseph Ransdale – received 131 bbls of bread and in the Gunner’s Department

414 lbs of bolt iron – launch watering – 1400 court adjourned – at sunset beat to quarters.

13 Mar – Light airs – 1000 court-martial convened – received 140 bbls of bread – received in the Purser’s Department 75 bbls of whiskey – returned to Store

House 119 bbls of bread – 1400 court adjourned.

14 Mar – Light airs – launch watering – received from the North Carolina 4 casks and 1 bbl of sea coal containing 50 bushels – 1000 court convened – received

40 bbls of whiskey – 100 of bread – reeving running rigging – received 84 bbls of beef and 100 quintals of wood – 1500 court adjourned.

15 Mar – Light airs – 1000 hoisted jack; court convened – received 94 bbls of bread and 44 of beef – received 36 bbls of beef, 48 of bread, and 65 quintals of

wood – 1430 court adjourned – at sunset beat to quarters.

16 Mar – Fresh breezes and squally – 0950 court convened – received 105 bbls of bread and 56 of beef – 1130 court adjourned – received 70 bbls pork – at

sunset beat to quarters.

17 Mar – Fresh breezes – 1000 court convened – received 102 bbls of pork, 75 quintals of wood, 2 casks and three boxes of clothing – received 291 gals of

molasses, 723 gals of vinegar, 12 boxes of candles, and 94 bushels of beans – 1300 court adjourned.

18 Mar – Fresh breezes – 1130 beat to quarters for inspection – fresh gales in afternoon – at sunset beat to quarters.

19 Mar – Fresh gales – at sunset beat to quarters.

20 Mar – Fresh gales gradually abating – received 51 bushels of beans, 251 gals of oil, 60 bbls of flour, and 31 of rice.

21 Mar – Light breezes – boats employed bringing mast alongside – received 100 quintals of firewood – Midn Robb transferred to North Carolina; Midn E.

Blanchard joined.

22 Mar – Light breezes -- 1030 punished Sea Robert Owens with 70 lashes per court-martial sentence and acquitted Sea Randall – received 60 bushels of coal. –

returned the shears to North Carolina – got the main trestletrees aloft and the main top over – received 30 bbls of bread – launch watering.

23 Mar – Light airs – 0900 sent the Marines ashore – rigging the mainmast and top.

24 Mar – Pleasant – getting rigging over main masthead – received 200 lbs of bolt iron – painting the mainmast.

25 Mar – Pleasant – returned the starboard sheet anchor aboard from shore – swaying aloft and fidding topmasts – Captain’s Clerk J. Fairles detached to North

Carolina – Captain’s Clerk “Randolf’ [sic: Lafayette Randolph] joined from North Carolina.

26 Mar – Light airs – launch bringing off sails, mats, rigging, etc. from Navy Yard – bent the topsails, courses, and fore and aft sails – received from North

Carolina Marines Sergt Williams and Privates Condon, Waters, Prusock, Wm Johnson, Young 2^nd, McConnell, L. Johnson, McMullin, Boothe, and

Standing. Sent to North Carolina Marines Morries [?], Wright, McLane, Cowan, Clair, Farrand; Ordy Wm Hamilton, Sea Josp Codman, Seas Thos

Law, Charles Anderson, John Clark 1^st, Sea Thos Williamson, Chas Mead, Jno Pelias, Warren Topliff, Hazard Sims [?], and Ordy Elijah Layton –

received from North Carolina Seas Nicholas Joseph, Michel [sic] Flynn, and Wm Ellsworth, and Ordys Ballymayo Lenders, Henry White, Richd

Stevenson, Henry James, Harper Radcliff, Lemuel Baker, Wm Rowe – Midn McWillson [?] left the ship..

27 Mar – Clear – hoisted in launch, 1^st cutter, and barge.

28 Mar – Cloudy – sent the North Carolina’s launch for water.

29 Mar – Light breezes; cloudy – 1400 unmoored and began warping down the harbor – 1750 anchored.

30 Mar – 0600 stood out under topsails, jib and spanker – saluted Commodore with17 guns – 0630 discharged pilot – unbent the chain cable and set up bowsprit

shrouds – 1800 inspected the crew at quarters.

31 Mar – Fresh breezes – unbent the sheet cable – 10 kts (3 hrs).

April

1 Apr – [Sunday] Fresh breezes – 11 kts (1 hr); 10 kts (5 hrs) – after 1400, split the main topsail – 1630 carried away the crossjack – bent another main topsail

– rigged a spare main topsail yard to replace the crossjack.

2 Apr – Fresh gales – sent up the replacement crossjack – later squally with rain.

3 April – Squally.

4 Apr – Squally – 1300 “brailed up the Spencer” – at sunset beat to quarters.

5 Apr – Light airs and cloudy – replaced main topsail – 1800 Cape Matapan off to larboard.

6 Apr – Light breezes – standing for the passage between Cerego [sic] and the Morea – squally in evening.

7 Apr – Squally – beating up to Milo harbor.

8 Apr – Fresh breezes – 0630 anchored off Milo harbor in 20 fathoms – 0700 received pilot.

9 Apr – Fresh breezes.

10 Apr – Fresh breezes.

11 Apr – Fresh breezes – at sunset beat to quarters for inspection.

12 Apr – Moderate breezes – at sunset beat to quarters for inspection.

13 Apr – Moderate to light breezes – at sunset beat to quarters.

14 Apr – Light airs – 0600 weighed anchor and found stock carried away, left harbor – 0830 sighted USS Ontario – 0920 Captain Nicholson came on board as

ships lay to – unbent the chain cable and bent it to the larboard “waste” anchor – supplied Ontario with 13 bbls of beef and 11 of pork – 1400 departed

Milo with Ontario – 1740 beat to quarters.

15 Apr – Moderate breezes – 1030 beat to quarters – at sunset beat to quarters.

16 Apr – Light breezes – standing up the Gulf of Smyrna.

17 Apr – Light variable airs -- at sunset beat to quarters – 2130 anchored off Vourla in 12 ½ fathoms.

18 Apr – Moderate breezes – at daylight hoisted out all boats – launch watering – shifted larboard bow anchor to the “waste.”

19 Apr – Light airs – launch watering -- sent the Pelican Lieut. Childs to Smyrna.

20 Apr – Light airs – rattling down the rigging – painting ship outside.

21 Apr – Light breezes – launch watering – painting ship – at sunset beat to quarters for inspection.

22 Apr – 1030 Divine Service and inspected the crew at quarters – got gang casks out of launch and prepared her for hoisting out – at sunset beat to quarters.

23 Apr – Light breezes – at daylight hoisted in the launch, 1^st and 4^th cutters, and Pelican - 1020 underway for Smyrna – 2220 anchored in 20 fathoms with 38

fathoms of cable.

24 Apr – 0720 underway – 1240 anchored off Smyrna – hoisted out Pelican and 4^th cutter - HBMS Seringapatam, an Austrian 64, and a French frigate and

sloop present.

25 Apr – Pleasant – painting masts – at sunset beat to quarters.

26 Apr – Pleasant – received in the Boatswain’s Department 2 sides of leather, in the Purser’s Department 25 cases and 4 boxes of tea, 3 of sugar, and 5 kegs of

tobacco – visited by Austrian admiral – at sunset beat to quarters.

27 Apr – Moderate breezes – received 2 sides of leather, 16 pine plank, 6 kegs of white lead, 40 [?] of black paint, 5 [?] of nails, 2 [?] scupper, 1000 tacks, 6

paint brushes, 6 whitewash brushes – at sunset beat to quarters.

28 Apr – Rain, thunder and lightning – received 42 tons of sea coal – at sunset beat to quarters.

29 Apr – Moderate breezes – 1030 mustered the crew at quarters – at sunset beat to quarters.

30 Apr – Light winds – at sunset beat to quarters.

May

1 May – Moderate breezes – received in Hospital Department a quantity of stores – at sunset beat to quarter

2 May – Light to moderate airs – received in the Purser’s Department 5 boxes of sugar – hoisted in the 4^th cutter and barge – getting ready for sea – draft fwd 20’

5 ½”, aft 22’ 7”.

3 May – Moderate breezes – 0630 underway standing down the Gulf of Smyrna – 1130 passed the Castle.

4 May – 0200 standing for the Strait of Scio – 0745 anchored off town of Scio in 20 fathoms with 54 fathoms of cable

5 May – Pleasant – at sunset beat to quarters.

6 May – [Sunday] Light airs – 0630 made sail – 1000 inspected the crew by divisions – passing through the Gulf of Escola Nova – at sunset beat to quarters.

7 May – Variable winds – 100 anchored of the town of Scola Nova [sic]; Captain Patterson left the ship – at sunset beat to quarters – 2030 Captain Patterson

“returned with all the boats.”

8 May – Light airs – 0700 under sail – standing into the strait between Samos and the “Main” – exercised the 1^st Division at quarters – at sunset beat to quarters.

9 May – Light airs to calm – Nicamis on larboard beam and Samos to starboard – exercise the 2^nd Division at quarters – at sunset beat to quarters.

10 May – Pleasant – 0930 “a number” of officers left the ship for the town of Zora off which the ship lay – 1350 officers returned – 1500 passed a Turkish fleet

composed of 18 ships and 12 brigs – at sunset beat to quarters.

11 May – Moderate breezes – 0820 beating up for the port of Athens – 1930 anchored off AEgina harbor in 15 fathoms.

12 May -- Light breezes – 0900 sent the 3^rd cutter to AEgina – 1100 3^rd cutter returned with Captain Canari [sic] and “the Secretary of the Greek Government” –

at sunset beat to quarters.

13 May – Light and variable airs – 1100 Divine Service and inspected the crew at quarters – at sunset beat to quarters for inspection – draft aft 22’ 5”, fwd 20’ 5

½ “.

14 May – Light breezes – 1330 underway for Athens – 1745 anchored between Salamis and the mainland.

15 May – Pleasant – at sunset beat to quarters.

16 May – Light airs – at sunset beat to quarters.

17 May – Fresh breezes and squally – 0800 underway – 1200 standing in for the port of Paros – 1315 anchored in Monastery Bay in 18 fathoms and 45 fathoms

of cable.

18 May – Light airs – received a boatload of wood – hired 2 launches to get water – at sunset beat to quarters; boats returned with water; shortened cable to 30

fathoms.

19 May – Light airs –1530 dragged anchor; dropped the other – at sunset beat to quarters.

20 May – Moderate breezes – 1030 Divine Service and inspected the crew at quarters – at sunset beat to quarters.

21 May – 0500 made sail, passing between westward mainland and Hydra – standing up the Gulf of Napoli – 1630 anchored off Napoli in 7 fathoms with 40

fathoms of cable.

22 May – Light airs – launch watering.

23 May – Light airs – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

24 May – Light airs and cloudy with rain – boarded the American ship Chancellor, 50 days from New York, with provisions for the Greek forces – launch

watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

25 May – Fresh breezes – sent 15 men to assist in unloading Chancellor – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

26 May – Pleasant – still unloading Chancellor – at sunset beat to quarters.

27 May – Cloudy – launch watering – received 2 cords of wood from Chancellor – 1050 Divine Service and mustered the crew at quarters – at sunset beat to

quarters.

28 May – Light airs – still unloading Chancellor – 1000 hoisted in 4^th cutter, launch, and barge – 1900 sailed in company with Chancellor, a Genoese brig, and an

Austrian lugger.

29 May – 0500 anchored off Specia – Midshipman Blanchard and 8 men sent on board Chancellor – at sunset beat to quarters.

30 May – Light airs – at sunset beat to quarters.

31 May – Light airs – 0500 sailed – 1000 standing up the Gulf of Napoli [di Romana} – anchored in 12 fathoms – hoisted out the barge and hoisted in the 3^rd

cutter – at sunset beat to quarters.

June

1 Jun – Light to moderate breezes –at sunset beat to quarters.

2 Jun – Light breeze – 1100 sailed down the gulf with ship Chancellor and brig Tontine 1900 Midshipman Blanchard and sailors returned aboard – supplied

Tontine with water.

3 Jun – [Sunday] 0800 convoy standing between Specia and mainland – 1030 beat to quarters and inspected the crew – 1830 beat to quarters.

4 Jun – Calm to light airs – 0800 Greek fleet of 15 sail in sight – beating westward between Serigo and Cerigetti.

5 Jun – Calm and cloudy – 1600 Anti Milo in sight ahead, Candia on starboard beam.

6 Jun – Light breezes and cloudy – 0400 Milo ahead – 1100 sent the whaleboat in to Milo harbor – 1500 whaleboat returned – 2400 Andros on starboard beam.

7 Jun – Fresh breezes – 1400 split the fore topsail; replaced it – 1415 “tore the jib;” replaced it – beating up the Gulf of Smyrna – 2200 anchored in 25 fathoms

with 65 fathoms of cable.

8 Jun – Moderate breezes – 0600 underway – 1030 exchanged numbers with USS Warren – 1130 anchored at Smyrna in 10 fathoms with 48 fathoms of cable –

at sunset beat to quarters.

9 Jun – light airs – at sunset sent down topgallant yards and beat to quarters for inspection.

10 Jun – Light airs – 1000 Divine Service and inspected the crew at quarters – at sunset beat to quarters.

11 Jun – light variable airs and cloudy – at dawn sailed HBM Brig Rifleman – at sunset beat to quarters.

12 Jun – Light breezes – Lieutenants Vallette and Grant and Sailing Master Dove surveyed the messenger and condemned it – at sunset beat to quarters.

13 Jun – Light airs – received in the Gunner’s Department 2 ½ tons of sea coal, 2 bolts of ravens duck, 13 hanks of cat gut, and 3 ½ sheets of horn; in the

Carpenter’s Department, 10 pine boards, 100 feet of plank, 6 [?], and 6 lbs of glue – sent on board Warren 15 fathoms of junk – squally with rain in

afternoon – at sunset beat to quarters

14 Jun – Light airs – sent the Armorer on shore with the spar deck capstan to repair it – rainy – received a boatload of wood.

15 Jun – Pleasant – 0500 Warren sailed – in late afternoon, Warren’s boat delivered mail from the Dutch sloop of war Proserpine.

16 Jun – Light breezes – 0900 Warren’s boat departed – shipped Ordy A. D. Shepherd and Boy George Bouquet – at sunset beat to quarters for inspection.

17 Jun – Light airs – 1000 Divine Service and inspected the crew at quarters.

18 Jun – Pleasant – 1900 beat to quarters.

19 Jun – Light airs – capstan returned and installed.

20 Jun – Pleasant – received 1 boatload of wood – at sunset beat to quarters.

21 Jun – Pleasant – at sunset beat to quarters.

22 Jun – Light airs – received in Purser’s Department 5 boxes of sugar and 92 bolts of duck; in the Hospital Department, sundry stores – at sunset beat to quarters

– left the ship for Smyrna Lieutenant Pope, Midshipmen C. Armstrong and C. Turner, and Surgeon’s Mate Brooks, as well as 23 men.

23 Jun – Pleasant – received in the Purser’s Department 2 boxes of soap, 1 bag of tobacco 9 ½ and 1½ boxes of tea [sic] – 1100 visited by French admiral – at

sunset beat to quarters.

24 Jun – Pleasant – 1100 Divine Service, read Articles of War, and inspected the crew at quarters – at sunset beat to quarters for inspection.

25 Jun – Light airs – at sunset beat to quarters.

26 Jun – Moderate breezes – at sunset beat to quarters.

27 Jun – Light airs – at sunset beat to quarters.

28 Jun – Light breezes – 1130 received a lighter alongside with [blank] gals of rum – HBM sloop of war Rose arrived – Lieutenant Pope and party returned from

Smyrna – hoisted out the launch and 1^st cutter – at sunset beat to quarters.

29 Jun – Light breezes – launch watering – 1500 USS Warren in sight – 1530 arrived American brig Ganges 50 days from Boston – at sunset beat to quarters –

HBM sloop of war Rose sailed.

30 Jun – Pleasant – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

July

1 Jul – [Sunday] Moderate breezes – 1030 Divine Service and beat to quarters for inspection – at sunset beat to quarters.

2 Jul – Light breezes – launch watering – received 29 bags of beans.

3 Jul – Light breezes – hoisted out the whaleboat and hoisted in the 4^th cutter – at sunset beat to quarters.

4 Jul – Moderate breezes – sailed HBM sloop of war Raleigh – 1200 fired a 17-gun salute in honor of the day – 1300 British, French, Austrian, and Dutch

warships present each fired a 17-gun salute in honor of the day – at sunset hoisted the British, French, Austrian, and Dutch flags and fired a 17-gun salute.

5 Jul -- Light airs – hoisted in the launch, barge, and 1^st and 4^th cutters – at sunset beat to quarters – 2115 set sail down the Gulf of Smyrna.

6 Jul – Light airs – 0130 grounded in 3 ½ fathoms – came off and at 0300 anchored – 0620 sailed, Warren in sight – Midn A. Harwood left ship; Sea T. Hallett

discharged. – 1400 anchored at Vourla in 11 fathoms with 50 fathoms if cable – hoisted out barge and launch – at sunset beat to quarters.

7 Jul – Moderate breezes – overhauling topgallant rigging – launch watering – Midn J H Marshall appointed acting Sailing Master – at sunset beat to quarters.

8 Jul – Fresh breezes – launch watering – 1030 Divine Service and beat to quarters for inspection – at sunset beat to quarters for inspection.

9 Jul – Fresh to moderate breezes – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

10 Jul – Moderate to fresh breezes – launch watering – 1000 Warren sailed – at sunset beat to quarters – 2200 Warren anchored.

11 Jul – Moderate breezes – hoisted in the water casks and sent the launch for wood – at sunset beat to quarters – the launch returned with wood – hoisted in all

boats.

12 Jul – Light breezes -- 0330 sailed, Warren in company – 0420 sprung the main topgallant yard; repaired it – 1000 Sea A Brown died – 1400 split the main

topsail; repaired it – 1530 committed the body of Abraham Brown to the deep – 1920 Ipsara I. due west – standing down between Ipsara and Scio –

2200 Warren parted company.

13 Jul – Moderate breezes – 0400 standing for Dos Passage -- 1800 anchored between Salamis and the mainland – hoisted out 4^th cutter and barge – at sunset

beat to quarters.

14 Jul – Moderate breezes – draft fwd 20’ 6”, aft 22’ 3” – at sunset beat to quarters.

15 Jul – Moderate breezes – 10 mustered the crew by divisions – at sunset beat to quarters.

16 Jul – Pleasant—1430 parted the anchor ring; dropped other anchor – hoisted out the launch and swept for the parted anchor – 2130 retrieved the anchor.

17 Jul – Pleasant -- at sunset beat to quarters – received a launch load of wood -- 2400 hoisted in the launch, Pelican, and 4^th cutter.

18 Jul – Light airs – sailed – standing up the Gulf of Egina – 1730 anchored off town of Coulori in 15 fathoms with 50 fathoms of cable – 1900 beat to quarters.

19 Jul – Moderate breezes – hoisted out Pelican – at sunset beat to quarters.

20 Jul – Light airs – 1400 received intelligence from the Governor of Salamis of a piratical expedition fitting out in Egina together with a request to detain them –

1420 discovered 3 suspicious boats standing out – 1420 fired a gun and sent 2 boats in pursuit --- 1500 boats returned with suspicious craft, which were

examined – 2 had passports; the skipper of the other permitted to go ashore and get one –150 Captain Patterson left the ship for [?] – 1700 hoisted out

the launch squally in evening.

21 Jul – Squally – in afternoon, the 3 detained craft released with valid passports – 1735 the launch returned, Ordy Chas Gosport having deserted – launch,

whaleboat and 4^th cutter rowing guard to prevent suspicious vessels from leaving harbor – 2330 Captain Patterson returned.

22 Jul – Pleasant – 0900 hoisted in the boats – 1000 sailed out of harbor of Calori [sic]-- sailing for Egina.

23 Jul – Moderate – standing for Poro I. – anchored in Poro harbor in 11 fathoms with 30 fathoms of cable – hoisted out the 4^th cutter – at sunset beat to quarters.

24 Jul – Pleasant – received 3 boatloads of wood – draft fwd 20’ 3”, aft 22’ 1 ½“ -- 1630 underway for Egina – 2130 anchored off Egina town in 21 fathoms

with 50 fathoms of chain – Greek frigate Hellas present.

25 Jul – Moderate breezes – 1000 Hellas underway – at sunset beat to quarters.

26 Jul – Light breezes – 0500 underway – 1530 anchored in Milo harbor in 19 fathoms with 50 fathoms of chain – hoisted out the barge and launch.

27 Jul – Moderate breezes – launch watering – 1830 – beat to quarters.

28 Jul – Pleasant – launch watering – 1830 beat to quarters.

29 Jul – Fresh breezes – 1000 Divine Service and inspected the crew at quarters – 1830 beat to quarters.

30 Jul – Moderate breezes – hoisted in the launch – 1830 beat to quarters.

31 Jul – Moderate breezes – 1830 – beat to quarters.

August

1 Aug – Fresh breezes – 0730 USS Ontario arrived – 1830 beat to quarters.

2 Aug – Moderate breezes – 0800 hoisted the broad pennant at the main and was saluted by Ontario with 13 guns; returned – 0810 saluted by Dutch sloop of

war Hecla with 13 guns; returned – 0830 underway with Ontario and 2 American brigs – beating up between Milos and Anti Milos – 0930 lost sight of

brig Delos – parted company with Ontario.

3 Aug – Fresh breezes – brig McGowan in company.

4 Aug – Fresh breezes – at sunset beat to quarters.

5 Aug – [Sunday] Moderate breezes – standing up for the Gulf of Smyrna.

6 Aug – Moderate breezes – standing up the Gulf of Smyrna --heavy swell setting the ship dangerously northward – lowered stern and quarter boats and sent

them ahead to tow her – 1730 hoisted the boats up – damaged the 3^rd cutter and Sparrow in running them up, and the gig in towing it.

7 Aug – Light variable winds – 16 anchored at Smyrna in 9 ½ fathoms with 40 fathoms of cable – USS Warren present –1830 beat to quarters.

8 Aug – Moderate breezes – setting up bowsprit shrouds, bobstays, etc. – unbent the fore topsail to repair it – 11215 French admiral visited the ship – 1830 beat

to quarters.

9 Aug – Moderate breezes – 0015 Warren sailed – 1000 Commodore [sic] Patterson visited the French admiral – discharged Sea Robt Rosas [?] – 1230

Commodore Patterson visited a Dutch sloop of war – 1300 An Austrian admiral visited the ship – 1830 beat to quarters.

10 Aug – Moderate breezes – received on board 46 lbs of raisins, 32 bags of bread, 868 lbs Russian iron, 718 lbs of hoop iron, 1 hide of leather, 6 whitewash

brushes, 10 lbs scupper nails, 10 pine boards, 42 lbs of sugar, and 48 quarter chests of tea. 1715 Commodore Patterson visited the Austrian admiral –

discharging a lighter load of coal – received in the Carpenter’s Department 1 bbl of lime – at sunset beat to quarters.

11 Aug – Light breezes – received 30 empty barrels for coal stowage – 1830 beat to quarters for inspection.

12 Aug –Pleasant – 1100 Divine Service and inspected the crew at quarters – discharged Sea Jno Brown; shipped Ordys Abm Wall and Jno Coburn – 1900 USS

Porpoise arrived.

13 Aug – Moderate breezes – at sunset beat to quarters.

14 Aug – Variable breezes – 0420 underway, standing down the Gulf of Smyrna – draft fwd 20’ 3”, aft 2’ 3” – 1820 anchored at Vourla in 6 ½ fathoms – hoisted

out all boats – USS Ontario arrived.

15 Aug – Pleasant – launch watering – 1830 beat to quarters.

16 Aug – Moderate breezes – cleaning launch – received from Ontario Ordy Jno [?] – launch watering – 1830 beat t o quarters.

17 Aug – Moderate breezes – launch watering – 0700 Ontario sailed – hoisted in the 3^rd cutter to repair – 1830 beat to quarters.

18 Aug – Fresh breezes—launch watering – 1830 beat to quarters.

19 Aug – Moderate breezes – 1015 beat to quarters for inspection HBM Brig Rifleman arrived – at sunset beat to quarters.

20 Aug – Moderate breezes – launch watering – beat to quarters.

21 Aug – Light breezes – at sunset beat to quarters.

22 Aug – Light variable airs – 0735 HBM Brig Rifleman sailed – launch watering – 1800 HBM Brig Parthian arrived -- 1835 beat to quarters.

23 Aug – Variable airs – draft fwd 20’ 7”, aft 22’ 1”.

24 Aug – 1000 USS Ontario arrived – sent the launch to Smyrna.

25 Aug – Variable winds – 1830 beat to quarters.

26 Aug – Light airs – at daylight found USS Java, USS Lexington, and USS Porpoise at anchor – launch returned from Smyrna with stores – 0800 saluted Java

and hauled down broad command pennant – 1430 Porpoise sailed.

27 Aug – Moderate breezes – HBM frigate Glasgow arrived – received from Ontario “a quantity” of pork and beef.

28 Aug – Pleasant – 1015 convened a court-martial – received from Java a quantity of stores in the Purser’s Department – 1530 court-martial adjourned –

received from Ontario 26 men and returned a like number

29 Aug – Light breezes -- 1000 court-martial convened – received from Ontario 23 oars received from Java 26 bbls of flour – 1500 court-martial adjourned –

Midn Blanchard transferred to Ontario.

30 Aug – Fresh breezes – HBM frigates Seringapatam and Cambrian arrived – 1100 USS Warren arrived - launch watering – 1300 court adjourned – 1600

Ontario underway for Smyrna – 1800 Cambrian sailed -- transferred to Ontario Midn P H Hoyne.

31 Aug – Moderate to light airs – 0600 Java sailed – 0630 Warren sailed – Lexington sailed with convoy – launch watering – 1730 HBMS Asia sailed [present

since 18 Aug] – at sunset beat to quarters.

September

1 Sep – Moderate breezes – hauled the launch up on shore for repair – HBM ships Genoa, Albion, and Seringapatam sailed – at sunset beat to quarters.

2 Sep – [Sunday] Fresh breezes – 1030 mustered the crew at quarters – at sunset beat to quarters.

3 Sep – Fresh breezes – caulking the launch – USS Lexington arrived with convoy – at sunset beat to quarters.

4 Sep – Moderate breezes – 1000 Lexington sailed with convoy of 6 – painting the launch – at sunset beat to quarters – draft fwd 20’ 7”, aft 22’ 4”.

5 Sep – Light winds – at sunset beat to quarters.

6 Sep – Light airs – 0730 Java arrived – 0930 exercised the crew at sails – 1430 Ontario and Warren arrived – transferred to Ontario Seas Wm Hillman, Jno

Thomas, David Griffin, and Marine Levi Johnson – at sunset beat to quarters.

7 Sep – Light airs – received from Java 4 coils of 3” rope – 1000 Ontario sailed – painting launch – 1300 Java sailed – received on board 18 bags of raisins –

at sunset beat to quarters.

8 Sep – Pleasant – borrowed Warren’s launch to water – at sunset beat to quarters – hoisted in the gang casks and returned the launch.

9 Sep – Calm – hoisted in Pelican, the 1^st and 4^th cutters – launched the launch – 1130 underway with Warren standing up the Gulf of Smyrna – 1500 anchored

off Smyrna in 9 fathoms with 38 fathoms of cable – at sunset beat to quarters.

10 Sep – Moderate breezes – at sunset beat to quarters – 2230 HM brig Rifleman sailed.

11 Sep – Moderate breezes – USS Porpoise arrived – sailmakers repairing the mizzen topsail – at sunset beat to quarters.

12 Sep – Fresh breezes – sent to Warren 69 bbls of beef and 66 bbls of pork – at sunset beat to quarters.

13 Sep –Cloudy – launch watering – received 4v bolts o No. 2, 2 of No. 3, and 4 of No. 4 canvas – 1500 Porpoise sailed – at sunset beat to quarters.

14 Sep – Moderate breezes – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

15 Sep – Pleasant – launch watering – hoisted out 4^th cutter – at sunset beat to quarters.

16 Sep – Light airs – 1030 inspected the crew at quarters – at sunset beat to quarters.

17 Sep – Light airs – launch watering – draft fwd 20’ 6 1/2”, aft 22’ 1/2'” – caulking the 1^st cutter – received 1 bolt of canvas – at sunset beat to quarters.

18 Sep – Moderate breezes – launch watering – received 4 bolts of Russia duck – at sunset beat to quarters.

19 Sep – Light airs; cloudy with rain – launch watering – received a boatload of wood – at sunset beat to quarters.

20 Sep – Variable airs – launch watering – received 2 boatloads of wood – at sunset beat to quarters.

21 Sep – Moderate breezes – received a quantity of wood – at sunset beat to quarters.

22 Sep – Moderate breezes; rain showers – launch watering – received a quantity of wood. – 1900 HBMS Glasgow arrived – thunder and sharp lightning.

23 Sep – Moderate winds, light rain – Porpoise arrived – 1030 beat to quarters for inspection – at sunset beat to quarters.

24 Sep – Light airs – 1030 Warren sailed with convoy – received a quantity of wood – at sunset beat to quarters.

25 Sep – Moderate breezes – 3 boats and 9 officers and the band left for the funeral of “Livingston” of the Dutch corvette Hecla; half-masted the colors during the

procession – received 7 puncheons of rum.

26 Sep – Moderate breezes – received 31 bags of bread and 8 bags of rice – launch watering -- at sunset beat to quarters.

27 Sep – Pleasant – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

28 Sep – Light airs – Porpoise sailed – launch watering.

29 Sep – Light breezes – shifted anchorage closer inshore – received 200’ of plank, 5 gals of oil, and 12 lbs of nails – launch watering – Porpoise returned – at

sunset beat to quarters.

30 Sep – Moderate breezes – 1015 beat to quarters for inspection – at sunset beat to quarters.

October

1 Oct – Moderate breezes -- hoisted out 1^st cutter – commenced painting hull – at sunset beat to quarters.

2 Oct – Light winds and clear – at sunset beat to quarters.

3 Oct – Moderate breezes – shipped Ordy Wm Small – sent to Porpoise 17 fathoms 5”, 38 fathoms of 3”, and 4 fathoms of 2” rope – at sunset beat to quarters.

4 Oct – Calm – launch watering – 1200 fired 21-gun with Austrian flag at the fore in honor of the Emperor’s birthday – sent Porpoise 100’ of match rope – at

sunset beat to quarters.

5 Oct – Moderate breezes – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

6 Oct – Moderate breezes – received a quantity of wood – launch watering.

7 Oct – [Sunday] Light to moderate breezes – 1000 Divine Service – beat to quarters for inspection – at sunset beat to quarters.

8 Oct – Light airs.

9 Oct – Moderate breezes – HBM frigate Glasgow and brig Camelion [sic] sailed – 1740 Porpoise sailed convoying the American ship Augusta and brigs

Delos, Rob Roy, Susan, and Cherub, as well as 4 English and 1 Dutch vessel – at sunset beat to quarters.

10 Oct – Pleasant – at sunset beat to quarters.

11 Oct – Pleasant – received 53 bags of bread – at sunset beat to quarters.

12 Oct – Light airs – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

13 Oct – Calm to light airs – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

14 Oct – Pleasant – 1030 Divine Service, read the Articles of War, and beat to quarters for inspection.

15 Oct – Moderate breezes – launch watering.—at sunset beat to quarters.

16 Oct –Light variable breezes – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

17 Oct – Moderate breezes – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

18 Oct – Moderate breezes – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

19 Oct – Light airs –supplied Lexington with 50 bbls of beef and 14 of pork – at sunset beat to quarters.

20 Oct –Pleasant – launch watering – received in the Purser’s Department 200lbs of soap - draft fwd 20’ 5”, aft 22’ 1’ – received a quantity of plank in the

Carpenter’s Department – at sunset beat to quarters.

21 Oct – Light airs – 1015 Divine Service – at sunset beat to quarters.

22 Oct – Pleasant – launch watering – shipped Ordy Chas Ross [?] – at sunset beat to quarters.

23 Oct – Light airs – launch watering – HBM Brig Rifleman sailed – at sunset beat to quarters.

24 Octt – Light airs – sailed HBM frigate Raleigh and brig Cameleon – received 4908 lbs of bread, 242 gals of rum, 1658 lbs of beans, 661 lbs of rice, 100 gals

of oil – launch watering Lexington – at sunset beat to quarters.

25 Oct – Pleasant – 0630 Lexington sailed – draft fwd20’ 3”, aft 22’ 1 ½‘ – received 21 bags of bread and 1 “bale” of rice – at sunset beat to quarters.

26 Oct – Squally with rain, thunder and lightning – launch watering – HBM sloop of war [sic] Raleigh and brig Cameleon arrived – at sunset beat to quarters.

27 Oct – Cloudy with rain – reeving running rigging – launch watering – shipped Ordy Jas Wood – hoisted in launch, 1^st cutter, and barge.

28 Oct – Pleasant – at sunset beat to quarters.

29 Oct – Variable airs – hoisted out launch, 1^st cutter, and barge – received from lighter 50 bbls of beef, 14 of pork, and 23 bags of bread – launch watering – at

sunset beat to quarters.

30 Oct – Pleasant – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

31 Oct –Moderate breezes – received on board 11 pine plank – at sunset beat to quarters.

November

1 Nov – Moderate breezes – HM Brig Gannett [sic] arrived.

2 Nov – Moderate breezes – at sunset beat to quarters.

3 Nov – Cloudy with rain, thunder and lightning – at sunset beat to quarters.

4 Nov – [Sunday] Moderate breezes – launch watering – 0900 hoisted the French flag at the fore in honor of the birthday of Charles X – 1030 inspected the crew

at quarters – HBM frigate Cambrian arrived – at sunset beat to quarters.

5 Nov – Pleasant – launch watering –HBM sloop of war Rose sailed.

6 Nov – Moderate breezes – 1700 beat to quarters – cloudy with rain.

7 Nov – Moderate breezes – launch watering – 1140 HBM Brig Parthian arrived – HBM sloop Rose returned.

8 Nov – Pleasant – received 2 boatloads of wood – HBM Brig Cameleon sailed – USS Lexington arrived with brig Cherub.

9 Nov – Cloudy with rain – launch watering – received 9 tons of coal.

10 Nov – Light airs – sailed HBM Brig Parthian – sent to Lexington 50 bbls of beef and 14 of pork – received in the Purser’s Department 463 gals of rum, 6000

lbs of bread, and 2 bags of rice; in the Hospital Department 5 lbs of flaxseed and 5 lbs of extract of Liquorier [?].

11 Nov – Pleasant HBMS Cambrian underway – 1000 beat to quarters for inspection – cloudy with rain in evening.

12 Nov – Cloudy with light rain – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

13 Nov – Light airs – sent on board ship Harriett [sic] Thos Hill and to the brig Cherub Wm Henning.

14 Nov – Light breezes and rain – 1400 hoisted in and stowed boats – 1800 HBM frigate Cambrian arrived, and a Russian frigate.

15 Nov – Variable airs – 1100 underweight standing off Smyrna – 1430 Cheered by HBMS Cambrian and USS Lexington – stood down the Gulf of Smyrna

1600 calm; sent boats ahead to tow – 1800 light airs; hoisted in the boats.

16 Nov – Calm to light airs.

17 Nov – Light airs – standing through Straits of Scio – 0930 a shore fort fired a shot across the bow – 1000 discovered HM Brig Parthian at anchor – 1945

hove to -- CO, Parthian boarded to explain situation – 1215 underway – at sunset beat to quarters.

18 Nov – Moderate to fresh breezes – 0900 hove to off town of Zeyra; sent boat ashore -- 1100 boat returned; got underway – gales while standing for Milo.

19 Nov – Fresh gales and cloudy – at daylight Cerigo I. in sight – gales abated by noon – 1600 Cape Matapan in sight – 2130 spoke HBM Brig Pelican.

20 Nov – Light breezes.

21 Nov – Light breezes – squally with rain in afternoon.

22 Nov – Fresh gales with rain and “sharp lightning” – pleasant in afternoon – 1500 showed colors to a ship that first flew the Stars and Stripes, then replaced it

with a Greek flag – thought to be the frigate Hellas.

23 Nov – Moderate breezes, later turned squally –1200 sighted HBM Brig Gannet with convoy ahead – 1430 split the jib; replaced it – at sunset beat to quarters

for inspection.

24 Nov –Fresh breezes, turning squally.

25 Nov – Fresh breezes – squally with rain in evening.

26 Nov – Moderate breezes – the “Spencer” mentioned.

27 Nov – Fresh breezes; squally with rain.

28 Nov – Moderate breezes – the “Spencer” mentioned – Etna sighted.

29 Nov – Moderate to light breezes – heavy head sea.

30 Nov – Variable winds, cloudy with rain – Cape Passaro to north – heavy squalls in late afternoon.

December

1 Dec – Fresh gales – Sicily in sight on weather bow.

2 Dec – [Sunday] Fresh breezes and pleasant – at sunset beat to quarters.

3 Dec – Light airs – 1600 Malta ahead.

4 Dec – Light airs – 0700 hove to and sent Pelican ashore “with the Pilots” – 1200 fired a gun for the boat –– 1230 fired again – 1300 fired yet again – 1440

Pelican returned and hoisted aboard --11 kts, 2 hrs; 10 kts, 4 hrs.

5 Dec – Light breezes – at daylight, Sicily in sight to north; Pantelleria to south – at sunset beat to quarters.

6 Dec – Light airs – parted the leech rope on the main topsail; repaired it – 1245 Cape Bon, Tunisia, in sight.

7 Dec – Fresh breezes – 0130 anchored “under Cape Carthage” in 6 fathoms of water with 36 fathoms of “rope” – woulding the main yard – 1500 American

Consul came aboard.

8 Dec – Moderate breezes – the Consul left the ship – intervals of rain.

9 Dec – Light breezes; cloudy with rain – 1000 inspected the crew at quarters – at sunset beat to quarters.

10 Dec – Moderate breezes and cloudy -- 0945 underway out of the Bay of Tunis.

11 Dec – Moderate breezes – at sunset beat to quarters.

12 Dec – Moderate breezes – Sardinia in sight on starboard beam in early afternoon.

13 Dec – Moderate to light breezes – heavy sea from NE in forenoon – 1115 Sea Owen Sullivan died – 1700 Sullivan buried at sea – 1900 weather leech of the

mainsail tore from clew to 1^st reef band; replaced sail.

14 Dec – [No morning entry] Light airs and pleasant.

15 Dec – Moderate breezes and pleasant – rigged out the flying jib boom and set that sail - at sunset Mount Toro fine on starboard bow .

16 Dec –Light airs – at daylight sighted Minorca; beating up for harbor entrance – 1430 received pilot – 1500 anchored in lower harbor in 15 fathoms – hoisted out

the boats – USS Java present.

17 Dec – Fresh breezes; cloudy – at sunset beat to quarters.

18 Dec – Fresh breezes – unbent all light sails.

19 Dec – Light air – launch watering..

20 Dec – Moderate breezes – received 25 quintals of wood – caulking the ship’s bends – Dutch sloop of war Pelikaan arrived.

21 Dec – Light airs – caulkers still on the bends – received 9 bbls of whiskey, 10 of beef, 8 of pork, as well as 200 flannel shirts, 90 pairs of stockings, and 400

pairs of shoes.

22 Dec – Light airs – caulkers still at work.

23 Dec – Moderate breezes – caulkers still at work.

24 Dec – Light airs – 18 caulkers and 3 boys employed till sundown – launch watering.

25 Dec – Moderate breezes.

26 Dec – Fresh breezes – “caulkers caulking ship outside” – received 10 lbs of black paint and 5 of white – at sunset beat to quarters.

27 Dec – Clear – caulkers at work – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

28 Dec – Light, variable breezes – received 22 1” pine boards, 2 4”, and 10 ¾ lbs of bolt copper – caulkers at work.

29 Dec – Moderate breezes.

30 Dec – Light breezes – 0900 stood up the harbor – 1130 anchored off Bolivar [?] Cove in 7 fathoms – 1400 stood up to the inner harbor -- 1530 anchored in 4

fathoms at sunset beat to quarters.

31 Dec – Calm – 0415 Lt Geo B McCulloh [sic] died – received in the Purser’s Department $10,000 in gold and $13,464.75 in silver – unbending sails and

sending them to the loft – caulkers caulking.

1828

January

1 Jan – Pleasant – 1300 Lt McCulloh interred ashore – sent to Java 60 fathoms of junk running rigging sent to Navy Yard.

2 Jan –Light breezes, cloudy – sent all spare spars ashore – received 14 bbls of pork, 17 of beef, 6 of flour, and 9 of beans, as well as 2 boxes of candles, 9 kegs

of butter, and 15 bbls of whiskey – caulkers still at work – discharged Ordy Jno Smith 1^st and H. White.

3 Jan – Moderate breezes – 29 casks from the riding tier sent to the Navy Yard – received 31 bolts of No. 1 canvas, 10 of No. 2, 29 of No. 4, 120 hammocks,

43 coils of spun yarn – stores ship George Hand arrived, 45 days from Norfolk.

4 Jan – Light breezes – sent the riding tier of water casks on shore – sent 3^rd cutter to Yard for repair.

5 Jan – Pleasant -- caulkers working on starboard side.

6 Jan – [Sunday] – inspected the crew.

7 Jan – Light airs – caulkers caulking – sent ashore the gun deck breechings and tackles – 1100 French frigate Maria Theresa sailed – launch watering.

8 Jan – Pleasant -- delivered to [?] 5 bbls of slush – sent to Lazarette 1 bbl of beef, 1 of pork, and 1 of bread – discharged Sea Angello Dominick [sic].

9 Jan – Cloudy with rain – caulkers caulking “the deck.”

10 Jan – Calm – 0900 unmoored and hauled alongside the Navy Yard—caulkers at work.

11 Jan – Calm – sent on shore topgallant masts, topsail; fore, and crossjack yards; topgallant and royal rigging; and stunsail booms – 0930 landed the Marines for

drill – caulkers caulking spar deck – 1330 Marines returned.

12 Jan – Light airs –caulkers working on spar deck – received in the Gunner’s Department 3 doz awls, 4 doz flat files, 1 doz half round files, 330 lbs of bolt iron

350 lbs of square iron, 25 lbs of iron wire, 2 sides of bellows leather, 1000 copper tacks, 36 sheets of sandpaper, 100 sheets of lantern horn, 1 sheet of

iron, and 6 lbs of solder.

13 Jan – Calm – stacking water casks on shore – caulkers on spar deck – 0900 disembarked the Marines – 1300 Marines returned.

14 Jan -- 1^st Division on day’s liberty.

15 Jan – Moderate breezes – sent on shore all spirit room casks, and all “light articles” to the store house – commenced cleaning hold and spirit room – 2^nd Division

on day’s liberty – discharged Boy Sebastian Pons and Ordy Jerome Call.

16 Jan – Light airs – caulkers caulking.

17 Jan – Light airs – 0900 debarked the Marines – 1200 Marines returned – 3^rd Division on liberty.

18 Jan – Light airs – caulkers working on gun deck.

19 Jan – Moderate breezes – caulkers caulking – “sent a gang of men on liberty.”

20 Jan – Light airs – 1000 inspected the crew by divisions – 4^th and 6^th Divisions returned on board; sent the 5^th on liberty.

21 Jan – Moderate breezes – 0930 Marines sent ashore to drill – caulkers working on gun deck – cables sent ashore – cleaned out the tiers and whitewashed the

hold – 1200 Marines returned – at sunset mustered the crew at quarters.

22 Jan – Light airs – caulkers at work – received in the Boatswain’s Department 5 coils of rigging.

23 Jan – Moderate breezes – finished caulking the ship – received in the Purser’s Department 15 bbls of whiskey, 29 of bread, 10 boxes of sugar, and 8 of

“sugar/package of ten.”

24 Jan – Light breezes – fitting rigging – at sunset beat to quarters for inspection.

25 Jan – Light breezes.

26 Jan – Light airs – scrubbed hammocks – coopers repairing casks.

27 Jan – Light airs – 1030 beat to quarters for inspection.

28 Jan – Moderate breezes – coopers repairing water casks – sailmakers repairing and making sails – overhauling rigging – received 20 quintals of wood.

29 Jan – Light airs.

30 Jan – Moderate breezes – at sunset beat to quarters.

31 Jan – Light breezes – 0900 sent Marines ashore – 1200 Marines returned – received 32 bbls of beef, 28 of pork, and 19 ½ gals of oil.

February

1 Feb – Light breezes.

2 Feb – Moderate breezes – working on water casks and sails.

3 Feb – [Sunday] Light airs – 1030 beat to quarters.

4 Feb – Moderate breezes.

5 Feb – Fresh breezes.

6 Feb – Light airs – crossed topsail, fore, and crossjack yards..

7 Feb – Light breezes – Sea Nicholas Post died in hospital.

8 Feb – Light airs – sent larboard waist anchor ashore and received a broken one in its place – found the main yard defective in the starboard yardarm; sent it

ashore.

9 Feb – Light airs.

10 Feb – Light airs with rain.

11 Feb – Moderate breezes – Joseph Williams 2^nd ran.

12 Feb – Cloudy with rain.

13 Feb – Light breezes and cloudy with rain.

14 Feb –Moderate breezes.

15 Feb – Moderate breezes.

16 Feb – Moderate breezes.

17 Feb – Light breezes – 1030 beat to quarters.

18 Feb – Light airs.

19 Feb – Moderate breezes.

20 Feb – Light breezes with rain – shipped for Java 31 seamen, 20 ordinary seamen, and 4 boys of this ship’s company.

21 Feb – Light airs.

22 Feb –Moderate breezes – 0830 fidded the topgallant masts – 0900 hoisted ensigns at the fore and mizzen “in honor of the day” – 1200 saluted with 17 guns.

23 Feb – Fresh breezes.

24 Feb – Moderate breezes – inspected the crew by divisions.

25 Feb – Fresh breezes.

26 Feb – Moderate breezes – received 110 quintals of wood and 6 of coal.

27 Feb – Light airs – 1000 found and interred the body of Sea Joseph Williams 2^nd .

28 Feb – Moderate breezes – getting aboard the main yard, getting stunsail booms on the yards, and getting up topgallant and royal yards – hoisted the Dutch flag

at the fore – 0900 sent the Marines ashore.

29 Feb – Pleasant – stowing the ground tier of casks.

March

1 Mar – Fresh breezes with rain – getting on board water casks, sails, cables, etc.

2 Mar – [Sunday] Fresh breezes – 1000 mustered the crew by divisions.

3 Mar – Fresh breezes with rain.

4 Mar – Moderate breezes – USS Porpoise arrived – launch watering – received 12 quintals of coal.

5 Mar – Moderate breezes – getting water casks on board and stowed – Midn Doughty joined Java.

6 Mar – Light airs.

7 Mar – Fresh breezes.

8 Mar – Fresh breezes.

9 Mar – Fresh breezes – 1030 beat to quarters for inspection.

10 Mar – Moderate breezes – painting masts and yards.

11 Mar – Light airs – received 16 fathoms of 9” rope and 2 bbls of tar – stores brig Statesman arrived from Boston.

12 Mar – Light airs – 150 bbsls of brea, 104 bbls and 3 hogsheads of whiskey, and 65 bbls of beef, as well as 3 coils of assorted rigging.

13 Mar – Calm – received in the Boatswain’s Department 200 fathoms of 5”, 200 fathoms of 4 ½“, and 100 fathoms of 4” rope; in the Purser’s Department 100

bbls of pork and 68 of beef – painting ship.

14 Mar – Light breezes – received 133 bbls of beef, 110 of pork, 55 of beans, 36 of flour, and 350 gals of vinegar, 350 of molasses, as well as 20,400 [?] of

butter, 3600 gals of whiskey, and 11 boxes of candles.

15 Mar – crew employed on ship’s business.

16 Mar – Moderate breezes – transferred to Java 31 seamen, 20 ordinary seamen, 4 boys, and 4 Marines – received from Java and Porpoise “58 in return and 5

Marines” - 1^st Division sent on liberty.

17 Mar – Light airs.

18 Mar – Moderate breezes – painters at work.

19 Mar – Moderate breezes.

20 Mar – Light breezes – received 4 boxes of sugar.

21 Mar – Pleasant – Boastwain Jno Ball joined Java – Boatswain Jas Smith joined this ship.

22 Mar – Moderate breezes – reeving new running rigging.

23 Mar – Moderate breezes – inspected the crew by divisions.

24 Mar – Light airs; rain later.

25 Mar – Fresh breezes – rerigging.

26 Mar – Light airs.

27 Mar – Variable winds – stores brig Spartan arrived.

28 Mar – Moderate breezes – received 8 bbls of beef, 9 of pork, 2 casks of peas and 2 of beans, as well as 2 bbls of beans; 4 bbls of flour, 4 of bread, 8 bbls of

slush, 6 kegs of tobacco, and 2 bbls of oil -- delivered to Java 2800 lbs of powder and 30 yds of flannel.

29 Mar – Light breezes – Porpoise sailed.

30 Mar – Moderate breezes – 1000 beat to quarters.

31 Mar – Pleasant – Sea Wm Staples died – hauled out and moored off Bulwark Cove in 6 ½ fathoms – Staples interred.

April

1 Apr – Moderate breezes.

2 Apr – Light airs – 0200 Purser John B. Timberlake died – “Launches the Pelican and Sparrow”.

3 Apr – Moderate breezes -- 1000 sent all marines and boats with all hands for funeral procession – 1200 interment – 1700 USS Warren anchored in lower

harbor; USS Delaware in offing.

4 Apr – Moderate breezes.

5 Apr – Light airs.

6 Apr -- [Sunday] Pleasant – 1000 all hands to muster, read the Articles of War – 1100 Commodore visited the ship.

7 Apr – Cloudy weather – 0700 Midn H. K. Mowers died.

8 Apr – Light airs – Mowers interred.

9 Apr – Pleasant – making mats.

10 Apr – Pleasant – fidded topgallant masts – launch watering – a court of inquiry in session.

11 Apr – Variable breezes – bent topsails, courses, and fore and aft sails – 1030 court convened – 1500 court adjourned.

12 Apr – Light airs – launch watering – 1000 court convened – 1400 court adjourned.

13 Apr – Pleasant – 1000 mustered the crew at quarters.

14 Apr – Clear – 1030 court convened – 1500 court adjourned – received on board North Carolina’s poop lantern and all condemned stores from the

storehouse.

15 Apr – Pleasant – 1030 court convened – 1500 court adjourned – discharged Sea Geo Fernandez.

16 Apr – Light breezes – USS Delaware arrived.

17 Apr – Moderate breezes – launch watering.

18 Apr – Light breezes – sent to Porpoise 11 bbls of powder and 1 of priming, 433 cylinders, 200 tubes, and 46 bunches of quills – received in Purser’s

Department 4 boxes of sugar and 5 of soap.

19 Apr – Calm and pleasant – at sunset beat to quarters.

20 Apr –Calm and pleasant – 1000 beat to quarters for inspection.

21 Apr – Light winds – received from Warren 3 seamen, 4 ordinary seamen, and 2 Marines – Midn J T Jenkins joined Porpoise – draft fwd 20’ 4”, aft 22’ 3” – at

sunset beat to quarters.

22 Apr – Pleasant – Porpoise sailed.

23 Apr – Calm and pleasant – received in the Purser’s Department 17 bbls of beef, 15 of pork, 5 of flour, 12 tierces of rice, 12 bbls of whiskey, and an unstated

amount of bread –sent to Warren 22 muskets and bayonets—received from Warren 23 old muskets and 17 bayonets – at sunset beat to quarters – 50

sail needles and 20 lbs of twine.

24 Apr – Light breezes – 0800 Commodore shifted his broad pennant from Java to Delaware – sent to Warren 27 bbls of cannon and 2 bbls of priming powder

– Midn J. N. Forsyth joined from Java.

25 Apr – Light airs – received from Delaware 5 seamen, 5 ordinary seamen, and 2 Marines.

26 Apr – Clear – received from Delaware 6 water casks of 200 gals each – launch watering – received from Warren 2 ordinary seamen and 1 cooper.

27 Apr – Light breezes – 0700 Java shifted to lower harbor – after noon, Java and Warren sailed – 1500 hoisted in the launch, 1^st and 4^th cutters – made every

preparation for sea.

28 Apr – Light breezes – 0500 underway – standing to the SW – at sunset beat to quarters.

29 Apr – Light breezes – 1200 Majorca in sight.

30 Apr – Light breezes – at sunset beat to quarters.

May

1 May – Pleasant – skysails mentioned – at sunset beat to quarters.

2 May – Pleasant –coast of Spain in sight – at sunset beat to quarters.

3 May – Light airs.

4 May – [Sunday] Light variable breezes – Cabo da Gatta in sight – at sunset beat to quarters.

5 May –Light breezes.

6 May – Light variable winds.

7 May – Fresh breezes – 0800 Malaga Light in sight – 0940 buried Michael Flynn at sea - 1000 split the jib; replaced it.

8 May – Moderate breezes – at sunset beat to quarters.

9 May – Variable breezes – 1300 anchored at Gibraltar in 20 fathoms – hoisted out launch , 3^rd, and 4^th cutters – at sunset beat to quarters – squally with rain

during evening.

10 May – Squally with rain.

11 May – Squally with rain.

12 May – Variable breezes – 0500 weighed anchor; found it had broken shank – reanchored in 44 fathoms – received 100 bushels of sea coal – at sunset beat to

quarters.

13 May – Light winds – launch watering – stowed the broken anchor in the starboard waist – received a boatload of wood – discharged QM Jno Ward, Sea

Leonard Lowburn, Ordy Thos Daniels, and Privates Richard and Wall – at sunset beat to quarters.

14 May – Fresh breezes – launch watering – received supernumeraries Jas Moore, Josp Ross, Stephen Harper, and Owen G. Goodrich – 1600 hoisted in launch,

3^rd, and 4^th cutters – at sunset beat to quarters.

15 May – Variable airs – at sunset beat to quarters.

16 May – Variable breezes – hoisted out launch to water – at sunset beat to quarters for inspection.

17 May – Pleasant -- launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters for inspection.

18 May –Light airs – 1030 mustered the crew at quarters – light rain in evening.

19 May – Cloudy – launch watering.

20 May – Clear – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

21 May – Light rain – at sunset beat to quarters.

22 May – Fresh breezes; light rain – launch watering.

23 May – Light breezes – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

24 May – Light airs; hazy – 1830 beat to quarters.

25 May – 0645 Sea Nathl Cann died – 1030 beat to quarters.

26 May – McCann interred – launch watering.

27 May – Light airs – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

28 May – 1100 Swedish admiral visited ship – launch watering – at sunset beat to quarters.

29 May – Light airs – at sunset beat to quarters.

30 May --0930 Sea Lott [sic] Martin died – launch watering – 1630 Martin interred – at sunset beat to quarters.

31 May – Light air – 0100 hoisted in launch and 3^rd cutter – 0400 underway – draft fwd 20’ 0”, aft 22’ 6” – 36, 260 gals of water on board.

June

1 Jun – [Sunday] Moderate breezes – coast of Spain still in sight.

2 Jun –Fresh breezes.

3 Jun – Fresh breezes – at sunset beat to quarters.

4 Jun – Fresh breezes.

5 Jun – Moderate breezes – 0900 sighted St. Mary’s Island – 1830 inspected the crew at quarters.

6 Jun – Light breezes – at sunset beat to quarters.

7 Jun – Light breezes – 1830 beat to quarters.

8 Jun – Variable airs – 1100 Divine Service – inspected the crew at quarters.

9 Jun – Moderate breezes.

10 Jun – Light breezes – 1830 beat to quarters.

11 Jun – Light breezes – 1830 beat to quarters.

12 Jun – Breezes freshening – 1100 parted main topsail leech rope; replaced it – 1900 squally.

13 Jun – Fresh breezes and cloudy.

14 Jun – Moderate breezes – squally in evening.

15 Jun – Light breezes – squally in midmorning for a short period.

16 Jun – Light airs.

17 Jun – Light airs – squally near midnight.

18 Jun – Squally – main Spencer mentioned – 1830 beat to quarters.

19 Jun – Light airs – 1840 inspected the crew at quarters.

20 Jun – Calm, then light breezes – 1830 beat to quarters.

21 Jun – Pleasant – squally in late afternoon – 1840 inspected the crew at quarters.

22 Jun – Calm, then light airs.

23 Jun – Light breezes.

24 Jun – Moderate breezes – squally at midnight.

25 Jun – Squally – moderate breezes with fog and rain at noon.

26 Jun – Fresh breezes and cloudy, then foggy.

27 Jun – Moderate breezes and thick haze – 1840 beat to quarters.

28 Jun – Light breezes and foggy – 1500 hove the lead and found 60 fathoms – 1800 62 fathoms, gravel bottom – 2000 54 fathoms – 2200 60 fathoms.

29 Jun – Moderate breezes and foggy – 0200 56 fathoms, black pebbles, small shells, and fine white sand – 0400 55 fathoms – 0600 68 fathoms, coarse gravel –

0800 54 fathoms – 0900 41 fathoms – 1000 58 fathoms –1200 light airs – 2000 110 fathoms, black pebbles and gray sand – 2400 foggy, no sounding.

30 Jun – Moderate breezes, foggy – 0200 130 fathoms – 1200 no bottom at 115 fathoms - 2000 no bottom at 120 fathoms – 2400 110 fathoms.

July

1 Jul – Light breezes and foggy – 1200 100 fathoms, muddy bottom – 1400 no bottom at 100 fathoms – 1530 hove to and boarded schooner Two Friends of

Portsmouth, NH; sounded 70 fathoms with mud – 1800 54 fathoms, gray sand and mud – 2200 90 fathoms.

2 Jul – Light airs and foggy – 0800 50 fathoms, white sand and gravel – 1330 sighted land – 1400 identified land as Cape Ann – 1700 fired a gun for a pilot –

1745 pilot aboard – 2030 anchored with 35 fathoms of cable.

3 Jul –Light airs from west – hoisted out 3^rd cutter – 1300 underway – 1430 came to in President Roads – 1650 underway – 1900 came to under Fort

Independence.

4 Jul – Light airs and pleasant – 0900 underway – 1100 anchored off NavyYard – 1200 fired a National Salute.