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Logbook of the William Baylies (Steam bark) of San Francisco, mastered by John MacInnis, keeper unknown, on voyage from 1894 March 31-1895 November 7

Item Details

Creator: William Baylies (Steam bark), William Baylies (Steam bark), MacInnis, John
Subjects: Adams (Steamer)--Sightings and encounters, Alaska Natives, Anchors, Arctic Ocean--Description and travel, Baptism, Barrow, Point (Alaska)--Description and travel, Baseball, Beluga (Steam bark)--Sightings and encounters, Bowhead whale, Children and the sea, Deer hunting, Desertion, Naval, Dutch Harbor (Alaska)--Description and travel, Fourth of July celebrations, Herschel Island (Yukon)--Description and travel, Hunting, Indigenous peoples, Lewis, William, MacInnis, John--(Shipmaster), Medicine, Naval, Newport (Steam barkentine).--Sightings and encounters, Pacific Ocean--Description and travel, Poetry, Punishment, Racing, Ranger (Screw steamer)--Sightings and encounters, Reindeer (Bark)--Sightings and encounters, Religion, Rescues, Seafaring life, Seals (Animals), Sherman, Helen Herschel--Birth, Shipwrecks, Thrasher (Steam bark).--Sightings and encounters, Unalaska (Alaska)--Description and travel, Voyages and travels, Walrus, Weeks, Charles E.--Death and burial, Whalers (Persons), Whalers (Persons)--Death, Whalers (Persons)--Religious life, Whalers' spouses, Whales, Whaling masters, Whaling masters--Death, Whaling ships--Equipment and supplies, Whaling ships--Maintenance and repair, Whaling--California--San Francisco, WhalingCaliforniaSan Francisco, Women and the sea
Collections: Whaling Collections
Contributor: New Bedford Whaling Museum
Date: 1894
Language: English
Referring Collections: newbedfordwhalingmuseumlogbooksandjournals, americana

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