Arent S. Crowninshield
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Arent Schuyler Crowninshield was an American rear admiral of the United States Navy. He saw combat during the Civil War, and after the war held high commands both afloat and ashore.
Capt. Arent S. Crowninshield
Cleopatra's Barge
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Cleopatra's Barge was the first oceangoing yacht built in the United States. It was built in 1816 at Salem, Massachusetts by shipbuilder Retire Becket for owner George Crowninshield Jr. Crowninshield
Arent S. Crowninshield
…Navy secretary under President Jefferson, but who died before taking up the office), and grandnephew of George Crowninshield Jr. (adventuring owner of Cleopatra's Barge, first yacht to cross the Atlantic) and Benjamin Williams Crowninshield, United States Secretary of the Navy from 1815 to 1818. Some sources give his…
1818 painting by George Ropes in Peabody Essex Museum
Captain Benjamin Crowninshield
In the Harbor of Genoa, Italy
King Kamehameha II known as "Liholiho"