William Swift papers : Accounts and Business Papers|Correspondence|Diaries, Journals and Logbooks 26 May 1794-1864.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Swift, William, author.

Contributor:

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Series:

Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-2853

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navies.

Sailors.

Tunis (Tunisia).

Accounts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2022.

Summary:

Papers of U.S. Navy surgeon William Swift, including commissions, passport and appointment as acting U.S. Consul at Tunis, Tunisia. Topics covered in his letters, primarily written to his brother Nathaniel Swift, and diaries include his lifelong career as a naval surgeon and subsequent voyages, including one during the War of 1812 in the brig CHESAPEAKE, which was defeated by the British ship SHANNON in June 1813 outside of Boston harbour; Swift's subsequent imprisonment at Halifax, Nova Scotia; a voyage in the brig SYREN in 1814, which was defeated by the British ship MEDWAY; and subsequent temporary prison term on the Cape of Good Hope. Swift's diary (1821-23) includes entries on his term as U.S. Consul at Tunis and sailing along the Barbary Coast of Africa in the U.S.S. ONTARIO; and brief diary entries of his services in Boston and other ports (1845-64). Also, a notebook kept 1819-59 recording geological and other natural observations.

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