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Journal of a Voyage in the Ship Perseverance, Robert Williamson Master, From Philadelphia to the Cape of Good Hope and Back to Philadelphia, 1803-1804.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 228
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Francis Gurney, 1784-1873.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Perseverance (Ship).
- Voyages and travels.
- Shipping--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--19th century.
- Shipping.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Logbooks.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gift of S. Decatur Smith.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume
- Place of Publication:
- 1803-1804.
- Biography/History:
- The Perseverance was a sealing ship. Robert Williamson, Master. On this voyage the ship sailed from Philadelphia to the Cape of Good Hope, the southern end of Cape Penninsula, Western Cape Province, South Africa, and then back to Philadelphia from 1803 to 1804.
- Summary:
- Ship's log written by Francis Gurney Smith.
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