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Logbook of the Fortune (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by David Evans Hathaway and then William Davis, Jr., kept by William Davis, Jr., on voyage from 1850 October 19-1854 May 18

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Creator: Fortune (Bark), Fortune (Bark), Hathaway, David Evans, Davis, William Jr.
Subjects: --Coral (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, --Europa (Ship : 1851-1876)--Sightings and encounters, --South America (Ship : 1832-1855)--Sightings and encounters, --William Thompson (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Accidents, Aitutaki Atoll (Cook Islands)--Description and travel, Alexander Coffin (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Almira (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, America (Ship : 1822-1862)--Sightings and encounters, Anadyr, Gulf of (Russia)--Description and travel, Arctic Ocean--Description and travel, Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel, Awashonks (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Banaba (Kiribati)--Description and travel, Beaked whales, Belle (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Bering Strait--Description and travel, Blue whale, Bora-Bora (French Polynesia)--Description and travel, Bowhead whale, Braganza (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Cambria (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Canton (Ship : 1835-1874)--Sightings and encounters, Catharine (Ship : 1831-1865)--Sightings and encounters, Charles Phelps (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, China (Ship : 1816-1865)--Sightings and encounters, China Sea--Description and travel, Daniel Webster (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Dartmouth (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Dromo (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Endeavor (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Fanning Island (Kiribati)--Description and travel, Finback whale, Florida (Ship 1821-1871)--Sightings and encounters, Frances Henrietta (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, General Pike (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, General Williams (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, George & Mary (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, George and Susan (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Gideon Howland (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Globe (Ship : 1824-1851)--Sightings and encounters, Globicephala, Governor Troup (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Gray whale, Gray's beaked whale, Greyhound (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Harrison (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Harvest (Bark : 1831-1861)--Sightings and encounters, Hathaway, David Evans, d. 1852, Hathaway, David Evans,---1852, Hathaway, Gilbert, 1813-1863, Hathaway, Gilbert,--1813-1883, Hawaii--Description and travel, Hellespont (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Hobomok (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Hong Kong (China)--Description and travel, Horn, Cape (Chile)--Description and travel, Humpback whale, Indigenous peoples, Janus (Ship : 1842-1875)--Sightings and encounters, Junior (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Kanton (Kiribati)--Description and travel, Killer whale, Lagoda (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Lark (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Levant (Ship : 1831-1855)--Sightings and encounters, Levi Starbuck (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Lexington (Ship : 1836-1859)--Sightings and encounters, Liverpool (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Marcia (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Marine accidents, Mary and Susan (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Maui (Hawaii)--Description and travel, Mercury (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Midas (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Minerva (Ship : 1816-1860)--Sightings and encounters, Montpelier (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Montreal (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Morea (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Nassau (Ship : 1824-1865)--Sightings and encounters, Nauru--Description and travel, Navy (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Newark (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Niagara (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Nil (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Nile (Brig)--Sightings and encounters, Oscar (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Pacific Ocean--Description and travel, Pernambuco (Brazil)--Description and travel, Phoenix (Ship : 1827-1861)--Sightings and encounters, Platina (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Prudent (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Punishment, Republic (Whaleship)--Sightings and encounters, Right Whales, Robert Edwards (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Roman (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Roscius (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Rota Island (Northern Mariana Islands)--Description and travel, S.H. Waterman (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Sally Anne (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Seafaring life, Seals (Animals), Sheffield (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Ships--Fires and fire prevention, Shipwrecks, Silas Richards (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Sophia Thornton (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Sperm whale, St. George (Ship : 1828-1876)--Sightings and encounters, Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia)--Description and travel, ValparaÃ¢iso (Chile)--Description and travel, Valparaíso (Chile)--Description and travel, Vernon (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Voyages and travels, Warren (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Washington (Ship : 1819-1861)--Sightings and encounters, Whale oil, Whalebone, Whalers (Persons), Whalers (Persons)--Death, Whales, Whaling masters--Death, Whaling--Massachusetts--New Bedford, William Hamilton (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, William Wirt (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
Collections: Whaling Collections
Contributor: New Bedford Whaling Museum
Date: 1850
Language: English
Referring Collections: newbedfordwhalingmuseumlogbooksandjournals, americana

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