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[Sharon (Ship) of Fairhaven, Mass., mastered by Howes N. Norris and then Thomas Harlock Smith Jr., keeper Benjamin Clough, on voyage 25 May 1841 - 10 February 1845]

Item Details

Creator: Sharon (Ship)
Subjects: --Drinking of alcoholic beverages, --Upolu (Samoa)--Description and travel, Abigail (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Accidents, Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel, Babcock, George--Death and burial, Banaba (Kiribati)--Description and travel, Barter, Blue whale, Brava (Cabo Verde)--Description and travel, Caroline (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Caroline Islands--Description and travel, Chelsea (Ship)--Sightings and encounter, Clarkson (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Clifford Wayne (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Coconut Island (Hawaii)--Description and travel, Columbus (Ship : 1820-1851)--Sightings and encounters, Cruelty, Desertion, Drowning, Drowning victims, Eagle (Ship : 1816-1869)--Sightings and encounters, Emily Morgan (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Euphrates (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Faial Island (Azores)--Description and travel, Fame (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Finback whale, Flores Island (Azores)--Description and travel, Fortune (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Gibbs and Jenney, Globicephala, Good Hope, Cape of (South Africa : Cape)--Description and travel, Governor Wolcott (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Graciosa Island (Azores)--Description and travel, Grampus (Mammals), Gratitude (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Hecla (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Hector (Ship : 1818-1866)--Sightings and encounter, Heroine (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Humpback whale, Indian Ocean--Description and travel, Indigenous peoples--Sightings and encounters, John Howland (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Killer whale, Lagrange (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, London Packet (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Marine accidents, Murder, Mutiny, Nauru--Description and travel, Naval, Newton (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Nimrod (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Norris, Howes, -1842--Death and burial, Pacific Ocean--Description and travel, Pico Island (Azores)--Description and travel, Pohnpei Island (Micronesia)--Description and travel, Porpoises, Port Jackson (N.S.W.)--Description and travel, Punishment, Race relations, Right Whales, Rotuma Island (Fiji)--Description and travel, Saint Paul Island (Terres australes et antarctiques francaises)--Description and travel, São Jorge Island (Azores)--Description and trave, Sao Miguel Island (Azores)--Description and travel, Seafaring life, Silsby, Thomas--Death and burial, Smith, Thomas Harlock, Jr., Sperm whale, St. George (Ship : 1828-1876)--Sightings and encounters, Sydney (N.S.W.)--Description and travel, Terceira Island (Azores)--Description and travel, Timor Island--Description and travel, Whale oil, Whalebone, Whalers (Persons)--Death, Whaling masters--Death, Whaling ships--Equipment and supplies, Whaling ships--Maintenance and repair, Whaling--Massachusetts--Fairhaven, Wilhemina Suey (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, William and Eliza (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
Collections: Whaling Collections
Contributor: New Bedford Whaling Museum
Date: 25 May 1841 - 10 February 1845
Language: eng
Referring Collections: newbedfordwhalingmuseumlogbooksandjournals, americana

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