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Logbooks kept by Lorenzo Baker for the ROMULUS, HOUND and CORNELIA : Diaries, Journals and Logbooks 1854-1866.
Life at Sea : Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baker, Lorenzo, author.
- Series:
- Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-2951
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Navies.
- Sailors.
- United States.
- Greenland.
- North Pacific Ocean.
- Logbooks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2022.
- Summary:
- Logbook, 5 October 1854 - 28 May 1857, kept by Lorenzo Baker master of the whaling ship ROMULUS on a voyage from Mystic, Connecticut to the North Pacific. Log includes navigational data, a crew list and wages, a large bookplate on the inside of the front cover, records of whales killed, as well as whale stamps; Logbook, 23 August - 17 December 1859, kept by Lorenzo Baker, master of the merchant ship HOUND on a voyage from the Gulf of California to New York. Log includes navigational data, weather reports, a crew list and their wages, and descriptions of seafaring life; Logbook, 20 April -25 August 1866, kept by Lorenzo Baker, master of the whaling ship CORNELIA on a voyage from New London, Connecticut to Greenland hunting right whales. Log includes navigational data, trading interaction with natives, details of shipboard life, and records of whales killed.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference:Log 1020.
- Mystic Seaport Museum: Logbooks.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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