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[Florida (Ship) of Fairhaven, Mass., mastered by Thomas W. Williams, keeper Samuel B. Morgan, on voyage 7 September 1858 - 12 December 1861],

Item Details

Creator: Florida (Ship), Morgan, Samuel B.--(Samuel Broadbent)
Subjects: --East China Sea--Description and travel, Accidents, Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel, Banaba (Kiribati)--Description and travel, Blue whale, Bonin Islands (Japan)--Description and travel, Bowhead whale, Cabo San Lucas (Baja California Sur, Mexico)--Description and travel, Carlotta (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Collisions at sea, Finback whale, Fish, Robinson & Company (Fairhaven, Mass.), Fogo (Cape Verde)--Description and travel, Globicephala, Gray whale, Guam--Description and travel, Hakodate-shi (Japan)--Description and travel, Hilo (Hawaii)--Description and travel, Honolulu (Hawaii)--Description and travel, Humpback whale, Indian Ocean--Description and travel, Indigenous peoples, Isaac Howland (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Islands, Bay of (N.Z.)--Description and travel, Japan, Sea of--Description and travel, Killer whale, Marine accidents, Mokil Atoll (Micronesia)--Description and travel, Okhotsk, Sea of--Description and travel, Pacific Ocean--Description and travel, Punishment, Raoul Island (Kermadec Islands)--Description and travel, Rescues, Right Whales, San Francisco (Calif.)--Description and travel, Seafaring life, Shipwreck victims, Shipwrecks, Sperm whale, Tristan da Cunha--Description and travel, Whalers (Persons)--Death, Whalers' spouses, Whaling masters, Whaling--Massachusetts--Fairhaven, Williams, Thomas W.--(Thomas William), Women and the sea, Yellow Sea--Description and travel
Collections: Whaling Collections
Contributor: New Bedford Whaling Museum
Language: English
Referring Collections: newbedfordwhalingmuseumlogbooksandjournals, americana

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