Scope and Contents Private journal of Charles H. Bell, Captain of the U.S.S. Constellation, describing vessel and navigations conditions, sightseeing and conditions ashore, and desertions and court martial on his ship and others as the vessel sailed from Norfolk, Va. to and around the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas. Included on the itinerary were the Azores, Gibraltar, [La] Spezia, Messina, Mahon, Genoe, Marseilles, Cadiz, Malaga, Palma, Piraeus, Athens, Constantinople, Smyrna, Alexandria, Cairo, and Geezah....