David Dixon Porter - Advance To Officer

Advance To Officer

In March 1841, Porter was promoted in rank to lieutenant, and in April of the next year he was detached from the Coast Survey. He had a brief tour of duty in the Mediterranean, and then he was assigned to the US Navy's Hydrographic Office.

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