Logbooks of the Portsmouth, 1844-1847.

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Logbooks of the Portsmouth, 1844-1847.

Official logbooks of the U.S. sloop of war Portsmouth, 1844 Nov. 19 - 1847 Dec. 31. Also logbook kept aboard the Portsmouth, 1845 May 12 - 1846 Oct. 5, presumably by Midshipman Stanwix Gansevoort.

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Portsmouth (Sloop of war)

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The Portsmouth was under Commander John B. Montgomery and sailed chiefly on the coasts of Mexico and California. From the description of Logbooks of the Portsmouth, 1844-1847. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 214990328 U.S. naval vessel launched at the Portsmouth, N.H., navy yard in 1843 and commissioned in 1844; wooden sloop of war; 1,022 tons; struck from the navy list in 1915 and subsequently sold. From the description of Logbook, 1850...

Montgomery, John Berrien, 1794-

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John Berrien Montgomery was a United States naval officer; as commander of the Portsmouth during the Mexican War, he occupied San Francisco and established authority of the United States on the California coast. From the description of Letter : U.S.S. Portsmouth, Yerba Buena, Calif., to Edward Meyer Kern, Fort Sacramento, Calif., 1846 Aug 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78915132 From the description of Letter : U.S.S. Portsmouth, Yerba Buena, Calif., to Edward Meyer Kern, ...

Gansevoort, Stanwix.

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