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[Bowditch (Ship) of Warren, R.I., mastered by Nelson J. Waldron, kept by Samuel L. Wood on voyage from 18 Sept. 1849-23 Apr. 1852]

by: Bowditch (Ship)

Publication date: 1849

Topics: Child, Shubel P., Waldron, Nelson J., Finback whale, Globicephala, Gray whale, Humpback whale, Killer whale, Marine accidents, Punishment, Right whales, Seafaring life, Sealing--Rhode Island--Warren, Seals (Animals), Shipwrecks, Sperm whale, Voyages and travels, Walrus, Whale oil, Whalers (Persons), Whalers (Persons)--Death, Whales, WhalingRhode Island--Warren, Whaling masters, Arctic Ocean--Description and travel, Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel, Bering Sea--Description and travel, Bora-Bora (French Polynesia)--Description and travel, Brava (Cape Verde)--Description and travel, Hong Kong (China)--Description and travel, Honolulu (Hawaii)--Description and travel, Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia)--Description and travel, Maui (Hawaii)--Description and travel, North Pacific Ocean--Description and travel, Okhotsk, Sea of--Description and travel, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii (Russia)--Description and travel, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)--Description and travel

Collection: newbedfordwhalingmuseum; regionaldigitizationmass; americana

Contributor: New Bedford Whaling Museum

Language: English

Log, kept by Samuel L. Wood, relating to a whaling voyage to the Atlantic, North Pacific, and Arctic oceans, Bering Sea, and Okhotsk Sea; Includes descriptions of types of whales (blackfish, finback, gray, humpback, killer, right, and sperm whales), walrus, and seal seen or taken and accidents and death at sea, and shipwrecks; and whale stamps, ship stamps, drawing of whaling ship, ink drawings of anchors (denoting ship in port), ink drawings of ships (denoting ships spoken), accounts, inventories of whale oil, and poems. Other places represented include Brava, Rio de Janeiro, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii, Hong Kong, Kamchatka Peninsula, Maui, Honolulu, and Bora-Bora; Whaling vessel, out of Warren, R.I., mastered by Nelson J. Waldron, on voyage from 18 Sept. 1849-23 Apr. 1852 to the North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Indian Ocean, South Pacific, North Pacific, China Sea, Sea of Japan, Okhotsk Sea, Arctic Sea, and Bering Sea whaling grounds; owner-agent: Shubael P. Child; built at Newbury, Mass., in 1823

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