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A TOUR OF DUTY IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: E.A. PORCHERAND H.M.S. SPARRO WHAWK, 18651868. Edited and annotated by DWIGHT L. SMITH. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2001. xvii + 172 p., map, colour plates, bib. Index. Hardbound. US$34.95.
Captain Edmund Augustus Porcher began his career in the British Navy in 1837 and served aboard several vessels before taking command of H.M.S. Sparrowhawk in Portsmouth, England on 4 March 1865. The ship was a three-masted barque and had two coal-fired steam engines. She was 190 feet long with a complement of 90 officers, engineers, seamen, carpenters, servants, stokers, and marines.
The Sparrowhawk was assigned to the …
Source: HighBeam Research, A Tour of Duty in the Pacific Northwest: E.A. Porcherand H.M.S....