The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-10-06
Missing Document lust Recover
ed Dates Back to Building
of "0Id IronSideS."
TELLS TALES OF ADVENTURE
Book Disappeared When Vessel Went
out of Commission and Officials of
Navy Department Have Since
Hunted High and Low.

BostOn.-The logbook of the frigate
Constitution, missing for fifteen years
las been found at the Boston navy
yard.
High and low the officials Of the de.
partment have sought the volume ever
since the famous old ship went out OF
commission for the last time in 1901
says the Boston Herald.
The disappearance Of the logbook
was complete mystery and the de
partment had come to the conclusion
that some person had purloined the
book and that it would probably never
again come TO light.
Covered With Crime.
And now, quite accidentally, it has
turned up, covered with CRIME and
c0bwebs, in the upmost corner of
building 81, at the Boston yard, where
apparently it had lain, with a lot of
other rubbish, since her captain hauled
down his flag for the last time,
The logbool, which is in manu-
script, of course, is very well pre-
served and its entries are remark
ably clear and legible. They bear
the signatures, written in the Rowing
script Of past generation, Of Capt.
Isaac Hull, Commodore William Balm
bridge. Capt. Charles Stewart, Capt.
Jacob Jones, Capt. Otto c. Badger and
other commanders of "Old Irousides."
Many interesting episodes and
events are narrated in the volume,
told in crisp, sailorIike fashion, with
out adjec.iveS or embellishments.
Some Of these occurrences have been
forgotten and their re-telling at this
time makes a strange tale Of the 100
years which have elapsed since the
old ship has been in the service Of
Uncle Sam.
The logbOok tells, in brief, of the
building of the Constitution, in Bos-
ton in 1914, and modestly recounts her
MANY engagements and adventures dur
ing the war of 1872 with Great Britain,
most of which are familiar history.
Describes World Voyage.
1t describes, in detail, the famous
voyage around the world, which began
M 1914 and ended in 1916, during
which the Constitution visited the
Azores, Madeira, Brazil, Cape Town,
Madagascar China, the Philippines
and many other places in the course
of her decentralization of the globe.
In crossing the China sea ii is noted
that the ship sailed through n mass
of floating pumice stone which had
been east up by spouting volcano In
Japan. At Canton, China, the crew
were called on TO help extingulsh a
huge fire which threatened to destroy
the city
The Constitution, in 1921, made a
tour of European waters where. on
account Of her exploits and victories
during the war she was the object of
great attention and curiosity. After
trip of 46 days, under the command
Of Commodore Bainbridge, she reached
Gibraltar short Of provisions.
A detail Of men was sent ashore 70
procure food, and after lengthy
talk with natives according to the
hog. they succeeded in bringing aboard
oranges, apricotg lemons and vegeta-
bles. one rather wonders how such
fare appealed 10 crew Of husky
man-'o-warsmen after a 46 days
cruise.
Arriving IN Gcnoa harbor on July
a. 1921. sickness broke out aboard
the ship which lasted for Two days.