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Elisha W Smith, Jr logbook : Diaries, Journals and Logbooks 1853.
Life at Sea : Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Elisha W Jr, author.
- Series:
- Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-2578
- 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 book kept by Elisha W. Smith Jr. of Wellfleet, Mass., on an 1853 trading voyage aboard the ship FLYING DRAGON from Boston to San Francisco aboard the schooner FLYING DRAGON. The log ends with entries describing a hurricane, apparently in the passage around Cape Horn. Also contains a log of an 1857 trading voyage aboard the schooner WILLIAM FREEMAN from Boston to Jacmel, Haiti, and back. Part of the vol. has been used as a scrapbook, with poems, engravings, and clippings from a juvenile magazine.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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