September 22, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/22/2011
Logbook of the USS Brandywine recorded from 1847-1850, while on patrol off the coast of South America, about one hundred pages of recorded material, housed in a fine leatherbound journal, entitled "Record Book of the U.S. Frigate Brandywine 'Flag Ship' of Commodore George W. Stour Brazil Station" and recorded by the Commodore's Aide K. Randolph Breese. With daily entries between November 20, 1847 and October 17, 1850, they record the comings and goings of various ships and dignitaries, as well as the patrols of this vessel during her time south of the equator. USS Brandywine (1825) (formerly named Susquehanna) was a 44-gun frigate which had the initial task of conveying the Marquis de Lafayette back to France. She was later recommissioned a number of times for service in various theatres, such as in the Mediterranean, in China and in the South Atlantic Ocean. During several instances she served as a role player in American gunboat diplomacy, a role she was well suited for with her large long-range 32-pounder guns and her devastating short-range carronades which produced severe fragmentation and fire damage to the ship fired upon, as well as widespread splinter and shrapnel injury to its crew. early two years after her voyage to China, the frigate was recommissioned once more on August 30, 1847, Capt. Thomas Crabbe in command. On September 13th, Brandywine set sail for the Brazil Station where she cruised for more than three years protecting United States interests in the region. The warship then returned to the United States at New York City on December 4, 1850 and was decommissioned 10 days later.
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