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[Ansel Gibbs (Ship) of Fairhaven, Mass., mastered by Isaiah West, keeper unknown, on voyage 17 September 1839 - 10 September 1842]

Item Details

Creator: Ansel Gibbs (Ship)
Subjects: --Japan (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Accidents, Aldabra Island (Seychelles)--Description and travel, Anjouan (Comoros)--Description and travel, Antonel (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters, Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel, Bengal (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Brava (Cabo Verde)--Description and travel, Diseases, Emerald (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Enchantress (Brig)--Sightings and encounters, Faial Island (Azores)--Description and travel, Fenelon (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Finback whale, Gibbs and Jenney, Globicephala, Good Hope, Cape of (South Africa : Cape)--Description and travel, Hercules (Ship : 1816-1857)--Sightings and encounters, Humpback whale, Indian Ocean--Description and travel, Jane (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Julius Caesar (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Killer whale, Lady East (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Lebaron (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Malay (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Marine accidents, Mary and Martha (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Mobile (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters, Moheli (Comoros)--Description and travel, Ocean (Brig)--Sightings and encounters, Palestine (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Pallisade (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Peru (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Reaper (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Réunion--Description and travel, Richman (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Right Whales, Rio Packet (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Roanoke (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Saint Helena--Description and travel, Scurvy, Seafaring life, Sir James Cockburn (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Sperm whale, Timoleon (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Triton (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Tyron (Ship)--Sightings and encounters, Warren (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, West, Isaiah, Whale oil, Whalers (Persons)--Death, Whalers (Persons)--Health and hygiene, Whaling masters, Whaling--Massachusetts--Fairhaven, Zanzibar (Zanzibar)--Description and travel
Collections: Whaling Collections
Contributor: New Bedford Whaling Museum
Date: 17 September 1839 - 10 September 1842
Language: eng
Referring Collections: newbedfordwhalingmuseumlogbooksandjournals, americana

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