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Journal kept by Edward C. Luce on board the ships LEXINGTON of Nantucket, HERO of Nantucket, Massachusetts & Louisa Sears of Edgartown, Massachusetts : Diaries, Journals and Logbooks 1853 December 11-1854 November 15.
Life at Sea : Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Luce, Edward C, author.
- Series:
- Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-3254
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Navies.
- Sailors.
- Pacific Ocean.
- Arctic Ocean.
- Logbooks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2022.
- Summary:
- Journal kept by Edward C. Luce on board the ship LEXINGTON of Nantucket, Massachusetts, Peter C. Brock, master, for a whaling voyage to the Pacific Ocean and Arctic Ocean whaling grounds. Contains whale stamps, ship stamps, mentions third mate suffering a broken leg when a whale stove the boat. Made 4 ports-of-call and spoke 14 vessels. Journal kept by Edward C. Luce on board the ship HERO of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Joseph McCleave, master, for the homeward passage from the Pacific Ocean whaling grounds. Made 2 ports-of-call and spoke 7 vessels; Journal kept by Edward C. Luce on board the bark Louisa Sears of Edgartown, Massachusetts. Edward Mayhew, master, for a voyage to the Atlantic Ocean whaling grounds. Contains whale stamps, describes shipboard life, mentions scrimshaw and two slavers, Splendid of Boston and Eliza Jane of New York. Made 7 ports-of-call and spoke 26 vessels. Captain Mayhew died April 26, 1857.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference:Log 832.
- Mystic Seaport Museum: Logbooks.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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