Stations for Working Ship.

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Stations for Working Ship.

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This volume includes internal regulations for the ship U. S. S. St. Mary's. Thomas H. Hamer, Midshipmen of the U. S. Navy is written on the frontpiece of the text. One two-page spread includes the following statement: "Meteorological Journal of the U. S. Ship St. Mary's Jacob Crowninshield Esq. Commander." The center portion of the journal deals with internal regulations for the ship and is titled: "Stations for Working Ship" followed by listings of stations aboard ship; various sets of directions related to setting of sails; watch bill for ship; quarter bill for ship; order; assembling at quarters for great gun exercise; and watch bill. Crew members' names are assigned to the watch bill.

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Peabody Essex Museum

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U. S. S. St. Mary's (Ship).

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Crowninshield, Jacob, 1770-1808

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Shipping merchant, politician. Jacob Crowninshield, born in 1770, a son of George Crowninshield and Mary Derby, started his career as a sea captain and merchant in the family business. He is remembered as the man who brought the first live elephants to New York, 1796, the same year that he married Sarah Gardner. He later engaged in politics, as a Massachusetts state senator, 1801, and a United States Representative for Massachusetts, 1803-1808. In 1805, he de...