| Scope and content |
Journal of a Cruize in the USS Independence compiled by an anonymous crew member, which describes the first overseas mission of the first ship of the line commissioned by the United States Navy, to deal with the piratical acts of the Barbary Powers against American merchant commerce in the Mediterranean Sea; also a letter from William M. Crane, Commanding Officer, USS Delaware, Port Mahon (20 September 1829) to Lt. William N, McKean, U.S. sloop Warren, ordering him to report to Lt. Thomas M. Newell, commander of the U.S. schooner Porpoise. |
| Access restriction | Joyner- No access restrictions. |
| Cite as |
U.S.S. INDEPENDENCE Collection (#1128), Special Collections Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Joyner- Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Purchase (Special Manuscript Fund), Ten Pound Island Book Co., Gloucester, MA. |
| Biographical note | The U.S.S. Independence was third U.S Navy vessel to bear this name and was the first ship-of-the-line (i.e. battleship) commissioned in the United States Navy. Commissioned in 1814, the Independence helped combat piratical acts of the Barbary Powers in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Mexican War before being decommissioned in 1913 and scraped in 1919. |
