Assigned To Commodore Perry
Princeton was fitted out for duty with Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s Squadron in the Far East and sailed 18 November 1852 from Baltimore rendezvousing with Perry’s flagship, the USS Mississippi off Annapolis, Maryland. On the way down the Chesapeake Bay, she developed boiler trouble and remained at Norfolk while Mississippi continued on without her. She decommissioned 1 January 1853 at Norfolk.
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