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AU PMB MS 89
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- 7 August 1838 - 22 June 1842 (Creation)
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1 reel; 35mm microfilm
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James Alden Jr. (March 31, 1810 – February 6, 1877) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy. Assigned to the United States Exploring Expedition under Lieutenant Charles Wilkes.
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Alden was an officer in the sloop-of-war 'Vincennes', the flagship of the United States Exploring Expedition which spent four years in the Pacific under the command of Commodore Charles Wilkes.
The journal gives an account - but not a day-by-day account - of the Vincennes voyage which took in the Tuamotu Archipelago, Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, the Antarctic, Hawaii, the Gilbert (Kiribati), Ellice (Tuvalu) and Marshall Islands. See also PMB MS 124-146 and the Bureau's newsletter, Pambu, Dec. 1971:25, pp. 4-7.
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Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia, USA
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Access this title at PMB Member Libraries or by contacting the Bureau directly: http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/accessing.php
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ms89