Circumpolar Navigator

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[Union (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by B.F. Ellis, keeper unknown, on voyage 31 August 1855 - 8 July 1857],

Item Details

Creator: Union (Bark : 1854-1865)
Subjects: (Shipmaster), Accidents, Active (Bark : 1839-1874), Alert (Ship : 1828-1862), Annawan (Brig : 1841-1859), Atlantic Ocean, Barclay (Bark), Blue whale, Chapman & Bonney (New Bedford, Mass.), Death, Delaware (Schooner), Description and travel, Desertion, Naval, Dominica, Dover (Ship), Eliza E. Perry (Ship), Ellis, Benjamin F., Equipment and supplies, Europa (Ship : 1851-1876), Faial Island (Azores), Finback whale, Globicephala, Grenada, Gypsy (Bark), Hand-to-hand fighting, Humpback whale, Isaac Hicks (Ship), John Adams (Whaling ship), Judge Shaw (Ship), Killer whale, Kingstown (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), Lady Suffolk (Bark), Laetitia (Bark), Leander (Bark), Lewis Bruce (Brig), Massachusetts, Matilda Sears (Bark), Mentally ill, Merlin (Bark), Minerva (Bark), Moctezuma (Ship), Morning Light (Bark), Mountain Spring (Schooner), N. D. Chase (Bark), Naomi (Ship), New Bedford, Ocean (Bark), Olive Clark (Schooner), Orray Taft (Bark), Paynter, John, Pearl (Bark), Praia (Cabo Verde), Punishment, Rescues, Rienzi (Schooner), Rose Pool (Bark), S.R. Soper (Schooner), Saint George's (Grenada), Saint Helena, Saint Thomas (United States Virgin Islands : Island), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Seafaring life, Sightings and encounters, Spartan (Ship : 1821-1869), Sperm whale, Star of Hope (Ship), Sun (Bark), Sunbeam (Bark), Whale oil, Whalebone, Whalers (Persons), Whaling, Whaling masters, Whaling ships, William H. Shailer (Bark), William Martin (Schooner), William Thompson (Ship)
Collections: Whaling Collections
Contributor: New Bedford Whaling Museum
Language: English
Referring Collections: newbedfordwhalingmuseumlogbooksandjournals, americana

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