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[George Howland (Ship) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by David C. Wight, keepers John Codd and then David King , on voyage 28 November 1852 - 8 May 1857],

Item Details

Creator: George Howland (Ship), Codd, John, King, David,--King, David (Logkeeper)
Subjects: --East China Sea--Description and travel, --Omega (Ship : 1834-1861)--Sightings and encounters, --South America (Ship : 1832-1855)--Sightings and encounters, --Upolu (Samoa)--Description and travel, 'Eua Island (Tonga)--Description and travel, Accidents, Alfred Tyler (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Anaconda (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel, Black Warrior (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Bowditch (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Bowhead whale, Breeze (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Brighton (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Canton (Ship : 1808-1854)--Sightings and encounters, Caravan (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Caroline (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Cavington (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Clarice (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Congress (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Corea (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Cornelia (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Costa Rica--Description and travel, Delaware (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Desertion, Naval, Diseases, Dover (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Drowning--Resuscitation, Dunbarton (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Ellen (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Eugenia (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Finback whale, Franklin (Whaling ship)--Sightings and encounters, G. & M. Howland (New Bedford, Mass.), General Pike (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Globicephala, Golconda (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Guam--Description and travel, Henry (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Hercules (Ship : 1816-1857)--Sightings and encounters, Hong Kong (China)--Description and travel, Honolulu (Hawaii)--Description and travel, Horn, Cape (Chile)--Description and travel, Humpback whale, Hydaspe (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Indigenous peoples, Insubordination, James Loper (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Japan, Sea of--Description and travel, Killer whale, Kingfisher (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Knife fighting, Lafayette (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Lancaster (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Marco Polo (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Marine accidents, Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia)--Description and travel, Martha (Ship : 1826-1860)--Sightings and encounters, Mary Gardner (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Mechanic's Own (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Mermaid (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Milton (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Mount Vernon (Ship : 1820-1856)--Sightings and encounters, N.L. Palmer (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Nantucket (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Niger (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Nile (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Okhotsk, Sea of--Description and travel, Oliver Crocker (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Pacific Ocean--Description and travel, Parachute (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Pitcairn Island (Pitcairn Islands)--Description and travel, Punishment, Rebecca Sims (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Rescues, Right Whales, Rodman (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Sakhalin, Gulf of (Russia)--Description and travel, Scurvy, Seafaring life, Spartan (Ship : 1821-1869)--Sightings and encounters, Speedwell (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Sperm whale, Superior (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Swift (Ship : 1805-1863)--Sightings and encounters, Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island)--Description and travel, Talcahuano (Chile)--Description and travel, Triton (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia)--Description and travel, Tuberculosis, Ua Pou (French Polynesia)--Description and travel, Vigilant (Bark : 1852-1879)--Sightings and encounters, Walmer Castle (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Whalers (Persons)--Death, Whalers (Persons)--Health and hygiene, Whaling masters, Whaling--Massachusetts--New Bedford, Wight, David C, 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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