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A Guide to the Journal of the U. S. S. CONGRESS
1816-1817
MS 22

print of a frigate
Wood engraving from John Frost's The Book of the Navy, 1842

A Collection in the
Special Collections & Archives Division
Nimitz Library

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Prepared by Mary R. Catalfamo
August 2004

 

Provenance: Unknown.  Accession no. 13815.
Size: 1 volume.
Access: Access to the Journal of the U. S. S. CONGRESS is restricted to microfilm.
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Preferred Citation: Journal of the U. S. S. CONGRESS, MS 22
Special Collections & Archives Division
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Scope and Content Note

This journal spans the period 16 November 1816 to 26 April 1817, and is continued by the Special Collections & Archives Division’s MS 23.  The U. S. S. CONGRESS (frigate) was under the command of Captain Charles Morris.  On 16 November 1816, the CONGRESS left Boston to patrol the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. 

At the front of the volume is a hand-written "Method for working a Lunar Observation by Spherical Trigonometry."  A large printed advertisement for Edmund M. Blunt, nautical publisher and author of the American Coast Pilot, is glued to the front paste-down.  The Blunt advertisement is partially obscured by two library labels.  The volume is partially printed, with blanks where the appropriate nautical information is to be inserted. "Printed by Edm. M. Blunt, 202 Water-Street, Corner of Beekman-Slip, New York" appears at the bottom of alternate pages.
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