This volume contains crew lists for the US Ships Java (29 pages) and Delaware (25 pages), compiled around the 1830s. The crew list for the Java was created while the ship served under the command of Commodore James Biddle and Captain Charles W. Skinner. The names of officers and sailors are organized into seven divisions, further divided into crews for each of the ship's guns (under the command of lieutenants) and sails. The crew of the Java included a small number of marines and numerous firemen and "wenchmen." The crew list for the Delaware is similarly subdivided into groups stationed in various parts of the ship and at various sails. The crew lists begin from opposite covers, and several pages have been torn out of the volume.
The frigate Java was launched in Baltimore, Maryland, in August 1815, under the command of Oliver Hazard Perry. The ship served in the Mediterranean from 1816-1817 and 1827-1831 and then returned to Norfolk, Virginia, where it was broken up in 1842.
The ship-of-the-line Delaware was launched in Norfolk, Virginia, in October 1820, and served in the Mediterranean from 1828-1830. After being decommissioned from 1830-1833, the Delaware returned to the Mediterranean, serving there until 1836. Re-commissioned again in 1841, the ship sailed along the eastern coast of South America before being sent back to the Mediterranean in 1843. The ship was de-commissioned at Norfolk in 1844 and was burned deliberately in 1861.
