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Barbary Wars: Register of Officer Personnel and Ships' Data Register of Officer Personnel United States Navy and Marine Corps and Ships’ Data 1801–1807 United States Government Printing Office Washington, 1945 Electronically published by American Naval Records Society Bolton Landing, New York 2011 AS A WORK OF THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THIS PUBLICATION IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. ACCESSION N? CLASSIFICATION 839054 REGISTER -J UL7 OFFICER PERSONNEL &I js +P"V United States Navy and Marine Corps &, I and SHIPS' DATA Published under the Direction of THEHONORABLE JAMES V. FORRESTAL Secretary of the Naty Prepared by the Office of Naval Rewrds and Library Navy Department, Under the Supervieion of CAPTAIN DUDLEY W. KNOX U. S. N. (Ret.) By Authority of Act of Congress Approved March 15,1934 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1945 PERSONNEL AND SHIPS' DATA BARBARY WARS PREFACE This Register of officers and ships of the Navy during the years 1801 through 1807 will supplement the operational material in Naval Documents related to the United States Wars with the Barbary Powers, six volumes of which have already been published. The ad- ditional data on personnel and ships should be of value not only to historians but also to genealogists, artists, model builders, and naval architects. Part I, Personnel, endeavors to list all the commissioned, warrant, and acting officers both of the Navy and Marine Corps during the years 1801 through 1807, stating the various duty assignments of each. All the material is from official sources, but there may be omissions because of incomplete records and failure to report some changes of duty and appointments at distant stations. The Office of Naval Records and Library will be glad to have these drawn to its attention. The initials P. E. A. mean Peace Establishment Act; and ran means deserted. Part I has been prepared by Mrs. Alma R. Lawrence. She was assisted by Miss Loretta I. MacCrindle, ~Mrs. Fay A. King, Miss Mabel I. Welde, Miss Catherine MacDonnell, ,'Mrs. Frances M. Holmes, and Miss Georgia Freese. Part II, Ships' Data, has been compiled from many sources, all contemporary and authentic, but much about our early naval vessels was not known even in the Navy Department when the vessels were still in existence. Additional material will be welcomed by the Office of Naval Records and Library, The form in which the data are presented requires definitions for those headings not self-explanatory. Cost is the total expenditure made to prepare the vessel for duty, unless otherwise noted. Agent is the individual or firm who handled the business details for the Navy Department. The builder had actual charge of constructing the vessel. In Commission is the earliest date when the vessel is known to have been fully prepared for duty. Principal dimensions: great care has been taken to attain uniformity so that an accurate basis of size comparison is possible. Unless noted by specific wording or by an asterisk length means that of the gun deck from the fore part of the rabbit of the stem to the after part of the wing transom; b~eadth denotes the extreme width at the widest point including both wales; depth is the measurement from the limber strake to the top of the deck beam. Since the method of calculating tonnage varied widely in different ports it has been impossible to attain any uniformity. Complement: because of frequent changes in the size of ships' crews these figures must be considered the number of men required to work and fight a given vessel. Battery: this gives the number and size of the guns in the main battery but does not include light pieces such as swivels and top howitzers. Spar dimensions: since the masting and sparring of vessels was left largely to the preferences of commanding m officers, changa were actual use in the year with mast beab and are omitted ss mastg generally followed a nil0 of 1 inch to 3 feet of length and yards 1 inch to about every 5 feet. Light spars such m studdingsail yards and boom ere not listed because of space limitations. The tabulation of gunboats is the first known to appear in print. There are much data missing from the Navy Archi~esabout these vessels and much found there are contradictory but all data presented httve been carefully sifted and are believed to be accurate. The lans of vessels reproduced in this volume are all taken from originai in the National Arehi ves or Library of C The photo- pphs for ib~plai~, w= the work of Lt. ~ienn~'blaMoArS and Mr. John J. Keegan, both formerly members of the staff of the Division of Photographic Archives and Research, National Archives. It is only through their skill in reproducing these badly stained and in some instances mutilated drawings that it has been possible to present facsimiles of these lans. Mutilations are indicated by a wavy line. This office is dogreatly indebted to Dr. Vemon D Tate, Dr. K Neil Franklin, and Mr. Charles L. Perry, Jr., of the National Archives for their aid in expediting the photographic work. Part TI hae been prepared by Lieut-enantM. V. Brewington, U. S. N. R.with the assistance of Mrs. Alma R. Lawrence and Miss Mabel I. Welde in the preparation of the vessel histories. DUDLEYW. Box, Captain, U. S. Naq (Refired), 0- in G;harge of One of ~YadRecot& and Library, Naq Deparfnent. PERSONNEL Adams, John. Allen, Drury M. Boatswain, March 21, 1803. Midshipman, May 1,1802. 0r- Acting boatswain in Essex in dered to General Greene in ordinary at Washington Navy ordinary at Washington Navy Yard, 1802-1803; served in Yard, July 22, 1802; fur- Essex and John Adams in the loughed September 23, 1802. Mediterranean, 1803-1 805; Resignation accepted Septem- New Orleans Station. 1806- ber 17. 1803. 1807. Allen, John. Adams, William P. Acting carpenter in Essex on Midshipman, July 4, l8O5. cruise to Mediterranean, April Served in U. brig Hornet 20 to November 21, 1804, in home waters, September- November, 1805; detached Allen, John. sick; merchant service, 1806- Sailing master, July 1, 1805- 1807 ; in command of Gunboat In command of smack Ranger No. 35, Portland Station and sent to the Mediterranean New York Station, 1807. with stores. Dismissed De- Aitken, Hugh. cember 12, 1805. Surgeon's mate, July 15, 1800. men, William Henry. Served in George Washington Midshipman, April 28, 1800. during Quasi-Ww with Lieutenant, February 17, France; George Washington 1807. Served in George and Essex in the Mediterra- Washington during Quasi- nean, 1801-1802; permission War with France; Philadel- to make East India voyage phia, John Adams, Congress, January 31, 1803; New York Constitution, and Essex in the Station, 1805-1806. Died Mediterranean, 1801-1806; September 17, 1806. U. S. S. Chesapeake in home Alden, Humphry. waters, 1807. Acting gunner in the Constitu- tion in the Mediterranean, Benjamin. May 20 to August 2, 1803. Pumer, October 12) 17989 Alexis, Louis. rank from August 16, 1798. ~~~i~~ midshipman from ~ul~Served in Herald and Boston 15, 1798. Midshipman, June during Quasi-War with 1, 1802. Lieutenant, March France; John in the 4, 1807. Served in U. S. S. Mediterranean, 1802-1803 ; Constitutionduring Quasi-War AP~44, 1804, ordered to with France; New Pork, Con- New Orleans, La. Died, stitution, and Congress in the September 22, Mediterranean, 1802-1805; Ambler, Edward. bomb ketch Etna and in com- Midshipman, A ril 2, 1804. mand of Gunboat No. 13, Served in U. g. S. Essex in New Orleans Station, 1806- home waters. Resignation 1807. accepted July 2, 1804. 1 2 REGISTER OF OFFICER PER80NNEL Anderson, Thomas Oakley. October 20, 1806. Trans- Midshipman, A ril 14, 1800. ferred to a gunboat, number Lieutenant, hi' arch 24, 1807. not 'ven. Served in U. S. S. New Pork Babbitt, B itz Henry. during Quasi-War with Midshipman, April 2, 1804. France; George Washington Served in Essex and Spitfire and Siren and as prize master in the Mediterranean, 1804- of f adona Catapolisna in the 1806; Chesapeake, home Mediterranean, 1801-1 805; waters, 1807. came home in President, Babbitt, Thomas. September, 1805; participated Surgeon, April 21, 1804. Served in expedition for destruction in U. S. S. Essex in the Medi- of Philadelphia, February 16, terranean from May 29, 1804, 1804. New York Station, to August 21, 1805. Came July-August, 1807. Resigna- home in John Adams, Novem- tion accepted August 21,1807. ber, 1805. No further service Anderson, Walter G. found. Midshipman, March 2, 1803. Bagot, William. Served in Constellation, Sailing master, June 8, 1804. Essex, and Constitution in the Served in Constellation and Mediterranean, 18 0 4-1 8 0 7. Constitution in the Mediter- Angus, Samuel. ranean, 1804-1807. Midshipman, November 6,1799. Bailey, James. Lieutenant, February 4,1807. Gunner, August 1,1803. Served Served in Constellation and in U. S. S. Vixen in the Medi- Enterprize during Quasi-War terranean, 1803-1 804 ; re- with France; President and turned home sick in John New York in the Mediter- Adams, February, 1805. Died ranean, 1801-1803; furlough, during year. 1803-1804; Essex and Vixen Bainbridge, Joseph. in the Mediterranean, 1804- Midshipman, April 8, 1799. 1806; merchant service, 18C6- Lieutenant, January 16,1807. 1807. Served in Norfolk and Presi- Anthon, George, Jr. dent during Quasi-War with Midshipman, June 20, 1806. France; in President, New Professional studies, 18C6. York, Chesapeake, Argus, and Furloughed January 24, 1807, Enterprize in the Mediter- for merchant voyage. In ranean, 1801-1805; in com- Gunboats No. 44 and 41 at mand of Sicilian Gunboat No. New York, July-December, 5 in attack on Tripoli August 1807. 3,1804;participated in expedi- Archer, Sterling.
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