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Logbook of the Cossack (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Charles Slocum, kept by Benjamin Franklin Homan, on voyage from 1850 October 8-1853 May 10

Item Details

Creator: Cossack (Bark), Cossack (Bark), Slocum, Charles, Homan, Benjamin Franklin
Subjects: --Coral (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, --Louisa (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, --South America (Ship : 1832-1855)--Sightings and encounters, --Timor (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Accidents, Alejandro Selkirk Island (Juan Fernndez Islands)--Description and travel, Anadyr, Gulf of (Russia)--Description and travel, Arabella (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Arctic Ocean--Description and travel, Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel, Bailey, Joseph--Death and burial, Black Warrior (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Blackfish, Blue whale, Bowhead whale, Braganza (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Brighton (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Brooklyn (ship : 1834-1856)--Sightings and encounters, California (Ship : 1842-1889)--Sightings and encounters, Cambria (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Canton Packet (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Champion (Ship : 1821-1858)--Sightings and encounters, Commodore Preble (Whaling ship)--Sightings and encounters, Delta (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Diomede Islands (Alaska and Russia)--Description and travel, Diseases, Electra (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Enterprise (Ship : 1821-1858)--Sightings and encounters, Fanning Island (Kiribati)--Description and travel, Finback whale, General Pike (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Globe (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Globicephala, Governor Troup (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Gray whale, Guam--Description and travel, Harvest (Bark : 1831-1861)--Sightings and encounters, Hercules (Ship : 1816-1857)--Sightings and encounters, Hitch, Charles, Hobomok (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Homan, Benjamin Franklin, Hong Kong (China)--Description and travel, Honolulu (Hawaii)--Description and travel, Horn, Cape (Chile)--Description and travel, Humpback whale, Illinois (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples--Death, Indigenous peoples--Nauru, Jefferson (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, John & Elizabeth (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, John Coggeshall (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, John Wells (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia)--Description and travel, Killer whale, Lafayette (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Marcus (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Marine accidents, Mary Frazier (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Mary Mitchell (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Maui (Hawaii)--Description and travel, Medicine, Naval, Metacom (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Midas (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Milo (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Minerva (Ship : 1816-1860)--Sightings and encounters, Molokai (Hawaii)--Description and travel, Monongahela (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Montpelier (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Morea (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Mount Wollaston (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Mutiny, Nassau (Ship : 1824-1865)--Sightings and encounters, Nauru--Description and travel, North Pacific Ocean--Description and travel, Ocean (Ship : 1822-1869)--Sightings and encounters, Ocmulgee (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Ontario (Ship : 1820-1853)--Sightings and encounters, Pacific Ocean--Description and travel, Parachute (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Prince of Wales, Cape (Alaska)--Description and travel, Punishment, Rescues, Right Whales, Royal families--Nauru, Russell (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Saint George (Ship : 1828-1876)--Sightings and encounters, Santo Antao Island (Cabo Verde)--Description and travel, Seafaring life, Sealing--Massachusetts--New Bedford, Seals (Animals), Seine (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Ships--Fires and fire prevention, Slocum, Charles, Smallpox, Sperm whale, St. Lawrence Island (Alaska)--Description and travel, Taiwan--Description and travel, Trident (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Two Brothers (ship)--Sightings and encounters, Vandalia (Sloop of war)--Sightings and encounters, Voyages and travels, Walrus, Warren (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Waverley (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Whalers (Persons), Whalers (Persons)--Death, Whaling masters--Wounds and injuries, Whaling ships--Equipment and supplies, Whaling ships--Maintennce and repair, Whaling--Massachusetts--New Bedford, William Hamilton (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, William Wirt (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Windstorms, Wolga (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Wounds and injuries, Zenas Coffin (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
Collections: Whaling Collections
Contributor: New Bedford Whaling Museum
Date: 1850
Language: English
Referring Collections: newbedfordwhalingmuseumlogbooksandjournals, americana

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