Description: Excerpt from Cruise of the U. S. Brig. Argus in 1813: Journal of Surgeon James Inderwick The brig Argus was built at Boston, in 1803, bv Edmund Hart. She had a tonnage of 298; the length of her keel was 80 feet; the breadth of her beam was 20 feet, and the depth of her hold was 12 feet and 8 inches.4 From a record of 1806, it appears that she had cost originally She then carried sixteen guns, the highest number of any brig in the navy.6 In 1803 she went to the Mediterranean; was in the harbor of Tripoli, in August, 1804, with 121 men commanded by Lieutenant Isaac Hull, in the American squadron under Commodore Edward Preble. That year and the next she had repairs made to her in the Mediterranean. She was repaired in March, 1808, at Norfolk. Va, and again in March, 1809, at the navy yard in New York. These repairs cost more than In 1811, she had her new berth deck calked, her bottom hove out, calked and coppered. At a cost of In june, 1812, with a complement of 120 men, she was under Master Commandant Arthur Sinclair. In Ocotober, of that year, she was stationed in the North Atlantic under the same commander. Later Sinclair was given a leave to visit his friends and, by order of Commodore Decatur.
Price: 49.95 USD
Location: Clearwater, Florida
End Time: 2024-12-22T15:25:41.000Z
Shipping Cost: 5.95 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: Inderwick, Surgeon James
Publisher: NY Public Library
Subject: Military & War
Year Printed: 1917
Original/Facsimile: Original
