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Logbook of the Good Return (Ship) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Christopher Cook, kept by Benjamin F. Wing, on voyage from 1847 December 8-1851 January 29

Item Details

Creator: Good Return (Ship), Good Return (Ship), Cook, Christopher, Wing, Benjamin F.
Subjects: --Hiva Oa (French Polynesia)--Description and travel, Accidents, Arctic Ocean--Description and travel, Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel, Barter, Benson, John M.--Death and burial, Bering Strait--Description and travel, Blue whale, Bowhead whale, Briggs, John--Death and burial, Cook, Christopher, shipmaster, Drowning, Drowning victims, Falkland Islands--Description and travel, Fanning Island (Kiribati)--Description and travel, Finback whale, Fox Islands (Alaska)--Description and travel, Futuna Islands (Wallis and Futuna Islands)--Description and travel, Futuna Islands (Wallis and Futuna)--Description and travel, Galapagos Islands--Description and travel, Globicephala, Guatemala--Description and travel, Guayaquil (Ecuador)--Description and travel, Henry Taber & Company (New Bedford, Mass.), Hilo (Hawaii)--Description and travel, Honolulu (Hawaii)--Description and travel, Horn, Cape (Chile)--Description and travel, Humpback whale, Indigenous peoples, Insubordination, Japan, Sea of--Description and travel, La Perouse Strait--Description and travel, Lahaina (Hawaii)--Description and travel, Marine accidents, Maui (Hawaii)--Description and travel, Mutiny, North Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel, Okhotsk, Sea of--Description and travel, Pacific Ocean--Description and travel, Pernambuco (Brazil)--Description and travel, Pun Island (Ecuador)--Description and travel, Punishment, Right Whales, Seafaring life, Sperm whale, Tryworks, Tumbes (Peru)--Description and travel, Voyages and travels, Walrus, Whale oil, Whalebone, Whalers (Persons), Whalers (Persons)--Death, Whales, Whaling masters, Whaling ships--Equipment and supplies, Whaling--Massachusetts--New Bedford, William Hamilton (Ship)
Collections: Whaling Collections
Contributor: New Bedford Whaling Museum
Date: 1847
Language: English
Referring Collections: newbedfordwhalingmuseumlogbooksandjournals, americana

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