Box 17
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Francis C. Dade diary, 1853-1854
File — Box: 17, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 301
Scope and Contents
Holograph diary that First Engineer Dade kept aboard the USS Saranac, 1853–1854, in the Mediterranean. The journal contains descriptions of visits to Italy, Portugal, the Balearic Islands and Malta and naval customs, quarantine, burial at sea, as well as drawings and sketches of naval engineering and mathematical principles. Also contains a list of officers on the SARANAC and a copy of a letter by A. Lawton, Chief Engineer, USS Hartford, Kanagawa, Japan 1860.
Dates:
1853-1854
Found in:
Naval War College Archives
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Manuscript Items