Papers, 1913-1915.

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Papers, 1913-1915.

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Officer on U.S.S. Florida stationed at the Navy Yard in Brooklyn, N.Y., and on the Altantic Ocean, writes home about activities on and off duty including watches, range finding exercises, battle drills, lantern slides of places to be visited and dances.

63 items ; 20 x 13 cm. or smaller.

Connecticut Historical Society

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Davis, Ellsworth Ingalls

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The first USS Florida was a sloop, which served between 1824 and 1831, as a survey ship under the command of Lieutenant T.R. Gedney. The second Florida was a side wheel steamer commisioned in 1861 with Lieutenant J.R. Goldsborough as skipper. Repaired and decommissioned three times during the Civil War, she was used as a supply transport until 1867. The third, a screw frigate, commissioned in 1867 with sea trails in 1868 with unconventional marine designs never approved fully by nav...