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[Canton Packet (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Humphrey Shearman, keeper Josiah E. Chase, on voyage 15 October 1845 - 12 October 1849],

Item Details

Creator: Canton Packet (Bark), Chase, Josiah E
Subjects: --Fiji--Description and travel, --Tonga--Description and travel, 'Ata (Tonga)--Description and travel, Accidents, Adeline Gibbs (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Albion (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Alexander (Ship : 1805-1851)--Sightings and encounters, Alfred (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters, Arabian (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Arabian (ship)--Sightings and encounters, Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel, Bartlett, Ivory H., Bay of Islands (N.Z.)--Description and travel, Belle (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Bora-Bora (French Polynesia)--Description and travel, Charles (Ship : 1817-1855)--Sightings and encounters, Charles W. Morgan (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Clifford Wayne (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Collisions at sea, Drowning, Drowning victims, Elizabeth (Bark : 1838-1846)--Sightings and encounters, Emigrant (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Factor (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Fairy (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Finback whale, General Pike (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, George Champlin (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Globicephala, Good Hope, Cape of (South Africa : Cape), Gratitude (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Henry Astor (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Hillman, Hiram--Death and burial, Hope (Ship : 1822-1863)--Sightings and encounters, Horn, Cape (Chile), Humpback whale, Indian Ocean--Description and travel, Indigenous peoples, Killer whale, Kingston (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, La Grange (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Lalla Rookh (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Levi Starbuck (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Lindseyes (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, London Packet (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Lord Howe Island (N.S.W.)--Description and travel, Maine (ship)--Sightings and encounters, Manawatawhi/Three Kings Island (N.Z.)--Description and travel, Marine accidents, Martha (Ship : 1810-1849)--Sightings and encounters, Massachusetts (Ship : 1841-1871)--Sightings and encounters, Mercator (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Monticello (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Narraganset (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Ocean (Ship : 1840-1869)--Sightings and encounters, Ocmulgee (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Pacific (Ship : 1818-1855)--Sightings and encounters, Pacific Ocean--Description and travel, Pantheon (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Pleiades (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Pocahontas (Ship : 1821-1857)--Sightings and encounters, Poetry, Punishment, Raoul Island (Kermadec Islands)--Description and travel, Right Whales, Roman (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Russell (Ship : 1833-1847)--Sightings and encounters, Seafaring life, Shearman, Humphrey, Ships--Fires and fire prevention, Shipwrecks, Sperm whale, Stowaways, Sydney (N.S.W.)--Description and travel, Tasman Sea--Description and travel, Tasmania--Description and travel, Virginia (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Walter Scott (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Whalers (Persons)--Death, Whaling ships--Maintenance and repair, Whaling--Massachusetts--New Bedford, Whangaroa (N.Z.)--Description and travel, Winslow (Bark : 1833-1858)--Sightings and encounters
Collections: Whaling Collections
Contributor: New Bedford Whaling Museum
Language: english
Referring Collections: newbedfordwhalingmuseumlogbooksandjournals, americana

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