Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason - Journal, 1872-1875

PMB 18

fonds

Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]

421986

Microfilm : PMB 18

microfilm reel 35 mm

Mason was born in New York City on May 8, 1848. He entered the U.S. Naval Academy in 1864 and passed the examination for lieutenant on April 2, 1872. On September 1, 1872, he sailed from Philadelphia in the U.S.S. Omaha on a cruise to the Pacific. In Valparaiso on February 14, 1873, he transferred to the U.S.S. Pensacola, a surveying vessel. In that ship, he visited other South American ports and arrived in Hawaii on February 13, 1875. After seven months in Hawaiian waters, he returned to the United States

The journal gives a day-by-day account of Mason's cruise in the Omaha and Pensacola, prefaced by an outline of his previous career

PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 18
Available for reference
Microfilm copy of original held by University of Hawaii Library, Honolulu