James Inderwick epub Cruise of the U. S. Brig. Argus in 1813: Journal of Surgeon James Inderwick (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Cruise of the U. S. Brig. Argus in 1813: Journal of Surgeon James InderwickThe 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.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.