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Log of the ship SURPRISE : Diaries, Journals and Logbooks 1850-1861.
Life at Sea : Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900 Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-2847
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Navies.
- Sailors.
- Business.
- Logbooks.
- Commerce.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2022.
- Summary:
- Log of the clipper ship SURPRISE, captained by Philip Dumaresq, while on a trading voyage from New York to San Francisco, Hong Kong, London, and New York (1850-53). harbour logs kept at San Francisco and Hong Kong. Also, a trading voyage under Charles A. Ranlett from Shanghai to New York (1855-56), and again (January-March 1857). The volume was then used as a nautical scrapbook, and contains news clippings, charts, maps, broadsides, and engravings (dated to 1861) pasted in, obscuring some pages. Includes some materials concerning the drowning of Capt. Dumaresq.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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