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[Ploughboy (Ship) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Henry Phelon, Jr., keeper Henry A. Phelon, on voyage 16 June 1848 - 18 November 1849]

Item Details

Creator: Ploughboy (Ship)
Subjects: Accidents, Catawba (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Copia (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Dance, Faial Island (Azores)--Description and travel, Globicephala, Kutusoff (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Lafayette (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Marine accidents, Mercury (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Messenger (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Minerva (Ship : 1816-1860)--Sightings and encounters, Music, Perample (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Phelon, Henry A., 1831-, Phelon, Henry,--1799-1851, Portuguese Man of War (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Right Whales, Santa Cruz (Cabo Verde)--Description and travel, Sao Tiago Island (Cabo Verde)--Description and travel, Seafaring life, Sperm whale, Swift, Obed Nye,--1804-1863, Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island)--Description and travel, Thomas H. Perkins (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Whalers (Persons)--Death, Whalers (Persons)--Wounds and injuries, Whaling masters, Whaling--Massachusetts--New Bedford, Wood, Albert, 1813---Death and burial, Wounds and injuries
Collections: Whaling Collections
Contributor: New Bedford Whaling Museum
Date: 16 June 1848 - 18 November 1849
Language: english-handwritten
Referring Collections: newbedfordwhalingmuseumlogbooksandjournals, americana

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