USS Princeton (1843)

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  1. ↑ Merrick & Towne was a foundry based in Philadelphia, founded by John Henry Towne and a Mr. S. V. Verrick, [7] and also notable for building the engines of the USS Mississippi. [8] It was later renamed Merrick & Sons. [9]
  2. ↑ Beverley Kennon (1793–1844) served in the U.S Navy and saw action during the Second Barbary War (1815–1816). He commanded several ships beginning in 1830 and was responsible for the Washington Navy Yard from April 1841 to March 1843, when he became Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repairs. He was a lifelong friend of Upshur. [14]
  3. ↑ Congressman George Sykes of New Jersey, an eyewitness, described Armistead as "a stout black man about 23 or 24 years old" and reported that he lived for a short while after the explosion and that "neither the surgeon of the Princeton nor any other person could discover the slightest wound or injury about him". [15]
  4. ↑ He managed the property his wealthy wife had inherited and had served for four years in the New York State Senate. Contemporaneous accounts refer to him as Colonel David Gardiner, but that was an error. His son, David L. Gardiner, had recently been appointed Tyler's aide-de-camp with the rank of colonel. [16]
  5. ↑ Born in 1785, his federal career included service as Solicitor of the U.S. Treasury from 1830 to 1837 and Chargé d'Affaires to Belgium from 1837 to 1842. He was a political ally of Calhoun and an advocate of the resettlement of free blacks in Africa.
  6. ↑ "The court found that every precaution skill could devise had been taken." [21]
  7. ↑ The interview appeared in the New York World on October 28, 1888. [27]

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  14. ↑ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. IV. New York: James T. White & Company. 1897. p. 552. Retrieved March 15, 2017.
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  17. ↑ United States Congress (1844). Accident on Steam-ship "Princeton"...: Report [of] the Committee on Naval Affairs.
  18. ↑ "Further Particulars of the Accident on Board the Princeton" . Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, MD. March 1, 1844. p. 1.
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  26. ↑ Knutson, Lawrence L. "D.C. Disaster Concluded in a Romance". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 10, 2016.
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