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Some of the materials in this "Five Cruises Volume" would normally have been bound in "Captain's Letters"; others are records that would normally have been retained by the Department of State but were perhaps lent to the Navy Department and not returned. These records have been reproduced in NARA Microfilm Publication, T829, Miscellaneous Records of the Office of Naval Records and Library, on roll 434.
A table of contents is included. The purpose of the voyage was to make commercial agreements with rulers of Pacific Islands. The first document in the volume is a copy, in the handwriting of Commander Finch, of an agreement between Capt. Thomas ap Catesby Jones, commanding the Peacock, and Pomene, King of Otaheite (Tahiti), September 1826. These records have been reproduced in NARA Microfilm Publication T829, Miscellaneous Records of the Office of Naval Records and Library, roll 433.
Letters from Capt. Thomas ap Catesby Jones, appointed to the command after the resignation of Captain Jones; from applicants for employment in the expedition; from employees discharged before it sailed; and from other interested persons. These records have been reproduced in NARA Microfilm Publication M75, Records of the U.S. Exploring Expedition Under the Command of Lt. Charles Wilkes, 1836-1842.
Chiefly reports from Lieutenant Wilkes, with a few letters from other members of the expedition and from persons who were not members. These records have been reproduced in NARA Microfilm Publication M75, Records of the U.S. Exploring Expedition Under the Command of Lt. Charles Wilkes, 1836-1842.
The final reports summarizing the expedition are dated February 3 and 28, 1849. See entry 409 for additional papers. These records have been reproduced in NARA Microfilm Publication T829, Miscellaneous Records of the Office of Naval Records and Library, roll 438.
Indexed. Captain Paulding was charged with a mission to various European capitals. These records have been reproduced in NARA Microfilm Publication T829, Miscellaneous Records of the Office of Naval Records and Library, roll 435.
These records have been reproduced in NARA Microfilm Publication M88, Records Relating to the U.S. Surveying Expedition to the North Pacific Ocean, 1852-1863.
These records have been reproduced in NARA Microfilm Publication T829, Miscellaneous Records of teh Office of Naval Records and Library, roll 445.
Table of contents included. Consists of a letter from Asst. Surgeon Henry C. Caldwell to the Secretary of the Navy, May 8, 1857; a report of an exploration under Comdr. J. C. Prevost of the HMS Virago, April 24, 1854; and letters from Lt. Tunis Augustus M. Craven, May 17 and August 14, 1858. The spine title is misleading, and the origin of the volume is not clear. These records have been reproduced in NARA Microfilm Publication T829, Miscellaneous Records of the Office of Naval Records and Library, roll 444.
The Virginius had been seized on the high seas by the Spanish war steamer Tornado, on suspicion that she was carrying arms and ammunition to insurgents in Cuba. These records have been reproduced in NARA Microfilm Publication T829, Miscellaneous Records of the Office of Naval Records and Library, roll 429.
Commodore Shuffeldt was instructed to visit ports of Africa, Asia, and Oceania where no representatives of the U.S. Government were stationed and to take measures to promote commercial relations. These records have been reproduced in NARA Microfilm Publication T829, Miscellaneous Records of the Office of Naval Records and Library, roll 437.
Table of contents included. Among the papers bound in this volume are "bottle papers" committed to the sea by survivors of the wreck of the two vessels and papers left in cairns. For logs and other letter books for the Jeanette Expedition, see entries 603 and 608. There are additional diaries and correspondence in the Navy Subject File, 1775-1910 (entry 502), file designation OC (special voyages) and NO (courts of inquiry).
Chiefly letters from Comdr. Bowman H. McCalla, commanding the U.S. Naval Force on the Isthmus of Panama, ending with his report dated June 8, 1885. Also bound in the volume are copies of letters sent by the Secretary, and letters received by him from the Secretary of State and others.
These records have been reproduced in NARA Microfilm Publication T829, Miscellaneous Records of the Office of Naval Records and Library, roll 458.
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