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[Gay Head (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Joseph R. Jenney and then William. H. Mitchell, keeper James H. Cowen, on voyage 29 August 1877 - 23 October 1881],

Item Details

Creator: Gay Head (Bark), Cowen, James H
Subjects: --Petrel (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, --Tamerlane (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Accidents, Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel, Attleboro (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Blue whale, Brava (Cabo Verde)--Description and travel, Cabinda (Angola : Province)--Description and travel, Catalpa (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Desdemona (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Diseases, Draco (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Drowning, Drowning victims, F.H. Moore (Brig)--Sightings and encounters, Faial Island (Azores)--Description and travel, Finback whale, George and Mary (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, George and Susan (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Globicephala, Humpback whale, Janet (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Jenney, Joseph R, Kathleen (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Killer whale, Lottie Beard (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters, Mabel (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Marine accidents, Mary Frazier (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Mitchell, William H.--(Shipmaster), Ocean (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Ospray (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, President (Bark : 1849-1904)--Sightings and encounters, Punishment, Rebecca (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters, Right whale, Saint Helena--Description and travel, Sao Miguel Island (Azores)--Description and travel, Sarah B. Hale (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Sea Ranger (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Seafaring life, Spartan (Bark : 1869-1876)--Sightings and encounters, Sperm whale, Swift & Allen (New Bedford, Mass.), Whalers (Persons)--Death, Whalers (Persons)--Wounds and injuries, Whalers' spouses, Whaling masters, Whaling--Massachusetts--New Bedford, Women and the sea, Wounds and injuries
Collections: Whaling Collections
Contributor: New Bedford Whaling Museum
Language: English
Referring Collections: newbedfordwhalingmuseumlogbooksandjournals, americana

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