Navigation Note Book F A LaRoche, Midshipman US Navy USS Prarie Veracruz

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Navigation Note Book of Ensign F A LaRoche, Midshipman, US Navy

Leather. 4to. No Publisher. Covered from 1914-1916. 152, 194-200 pgs. Notation in pencil. Handwritten note laid in describing the biographical details of two other naval officers. 

Bound in 3/4 leather boards with pastedown present to the front board. Lacking the spine. Boards are chipped and worn.

A series of hand notated navigation observations for the USS Prairie on it's voyage from Norfolk to Veracruz, with a series of sextant readings taken from Polaris and Vega by Midshipman (later Ensign) F A LaRoche.

FROM WIKIPEDIA:

USS Prairie (AD-5), formerly Morgan Liner SS El Sol, was built in 1890 by William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia. She was purchased by the United States Navy on 6 April 1898 from the Southern Pacific Company, and commissioned two days later at New York, Commander Charles J. Train in command.

Prairie was converted into an auxiliary cruiser and assigned at first to the Northern Patrol Squadron and later to the North Atlantic Fleet. During the Spanish–American War, she served in Cuban waters July and August 1898. On 25 August she stranded in dense fog 3 miles east of the Amagansett, New York Life saving Station. The United States Life Saving Service ferried 216 troops to shore. She was pulled off the next day by the tug Brittania.[1] She returned to Fore River, Massachusetts on 28 August. She decommissioned on 15 March 1899 at Philadelphia.

Prairie was placed in reserve commission on 23 March 1899 and cruised with the naval militia off the Atlantic coast until she was decommissioned at New York on 18 February 1901. She carried government exhibits to France at the turn of the 20th century for the Paris Exposition. She was recommissioned at Boston on 9 November 1901 as a training ship, and remained with this mission until she was decommissioned at Boston on 14 June 1905.

She was recommissioned 26 September 1906 at Boston as a transport and was attached to the Atlantic Fleet. She protected American interests in Cuba, March to April 1907. Later, she resumed her training duties with the naval militia from May to September 1907, July to August 1908 and July to August 1909.

She took part on the U.S. occupation of Veracruz in 1914, firing her 3-inch guns at the Naval Academy and other tactical targets, on 21 April 1914.

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Book formats and corresponding sizes
Name	Abbreviations	Leaves	Pages	Approximate cover size (width × height)
				inches	cm
folio	2º or fo	2	4	12 × 19	30.5 × 48
quarto	4º or 4to	4	8	9½ × 12	24 × 30.5
octavo	8º or 8vo	8	16	6 × 9	15 × 23
duodecimo  or twelvemo	12º or 12mo	12	24	5 × 7⅜	12.5 × 19
sextodecimo or sixteenmo	16º or 16mo	16	32	4 × 6¾	10 × 17
octodecimo or eighteenmo	18º or 18mo	18	36	4 × 6½	10 × 16.5
trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo	32º or 32mo	32	64	3½ × 5½	9 × 14
quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo	48º or 48mo	48	96	2½ × 4	6.5 × 10
sexagesimo-quarto or sixty-fourmo	64º or 64mo	64	128	2 × 3	5 × 7.5

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• Condition: ***********PLEASE CLICK ON THE DESCRIPTION IF YOU ARE ON YOUR PHONE TO SEE MORE PHOTOS AND READ THE DESCRIPTION****************Leather. 4to. No Publisher. Covered from 1914-1916. 152, 194-200 pgs. Notation in pencil. Handwritten note laid in describing the biographical details of two other naval officers. Bound in 3/4 leather boards with pastedown present to the front board. Lacking the spine. Boards are chipped and worn. A series of hand notated navigation observations for the USS Prairie on it's voyage from Norfolk to Veracruz, with a series of sextant readings taken from Polaris and Vega by Midshipman (later Ensign) F A LaRoche.
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Modified Item: No

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