Cruizing under the "stars and stripes", being the private journal of Richard LeRoy Parker, 1842-1861.

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Cruizing under the "stars and stripes", being the private journal of Richard LeRoy Parker, 1842-1861.

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The journal begins with a three-page biographical insert on different paper and in another hand by "I.G." [Isaac J. Greenwood], the owner in 1895 who also provided the title. The accounts describe Parker's tours of duty, life on board ship, and the places he saw. On various ships he visited Bombay (India), ColoĢn (Panama), Fort Pickens (Fla.), Canton (Guangzhou], China, Havana (Cuba), Honk Kong (China), Honolulu (Hawaii), London (England), Macau (China), Manila (Philippines), Monrovia (Liberia), Pensacola (Fla.), Port-au-Prince (Haiti), and Veracruz (Mexico). The journal closes 2 July 1861 when he was staying with a friend at Centerville, Rhode Island. The journal ends with pages of Notes to Hermann's cruise, several poems (probably original), Notes to Raritan and Sabine, where he had his 31st birthday in 1859, a list of his sea travels and several pages of births, deaths and marriages of Parker family members. There is a letter from his brother Robert B. Parker when at West Point in 1841 and, a loose sketch and three clippings. Also, includes six watercolors and Parker family genealogical notes and correspondence between [Archibald] Daingerfield Parker and Isaac J. Greenwood, 1895-1896.

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Parker, Richard LeRoy, 1828-1862

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Richard LeRoy Parker was born on 27 September 1828 in Brooklyn, New York, the seventh of eight children of Foxhall A. Parker of Westmoreland County, Virginia, and Sarah Jay Bogardus of New York, New York. He went to sea at 14 as a clerk to his father and served a succession of captains (on the frigates Hermann, Raritan, and Sabine, among others) in the U.S. Navy. Parker died on 30 August 1862 aboard the gunboat Anglo American on the Mississippi River near Vicksburg during the Civil War. ...

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...