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Charles F. Sands, Captain's Clerk, USN, (in service, 1848)

Charles F. Sands served as Captain's Clerk on board the U.S. Brig Porpoise during a cruise off west Africa in 1848. While so employed he kept a journal that included many sketches of shipboard activities and local scenery.

This page provides links to photographs of sketches by Charles F. Sands.

The following sketches were made by Charles F. Sands, while serving in USS Porpoise off west Africa in 1848:

• Photo # NH 42640: "Port O'Praya, St. Jago Island". Fruit boat coming off to meet the U.S. Brig Porpoise.
  
• Photo # NH 42641: Sparks, Captain of the Maintop, U.S. Brig Porpoise.
  
• Photo # NH 42642: Flogging a crewman on the U.S. Brig Porpoise.
  
• Photo # NH 56851-A: "Landing place at Porto Praya".
  
• Photo # NH 56851-B: Porpoise's Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Alexander G. Gordon, hails crewmen working aloft.
  
• Photo # NH 56851-C: "Watering Ship". Crewmen loading casks of fresh water onto boats.
  
• Photo # NH 63103: "Kroomen launching a boat".
  
• Photo # NH 63104: "Kroomen in surf", paddling a boat.
  
• Photo # NH 63105: "The Steerage" on U.S. Brig Porpoise.
  

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