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Logbook of the ship Catawba.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swain, Obed, 1814-1901, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catawba (Ship).
- Death.
- Desertion, Military.
- Discipline.
- Diseases.
- Drowning.
- Families.
- Fires.
- Fishing.
- Health.
- Homesickness.
- Loneliness.
- Medicine.
- Motion sickness.
- Navigation.
- Poetry.
- Storms.
- Weather.
- Whaling.
- Wives.
- Azores.
- Chile--Talcahuano.
- Ecuador.
- Galapagos Islands.
- Massachusetts--Nantucket.
- Mexico.
- Pacific Ocean--Juan Fernández Islands.
- Peru--Paita.
- Peru--Tumbes.
- Genre:
- Logbooks
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1852-1857.
- Summary:
- Logbook kept by the captain of the ship Catawba, a whaling vessel from Nantucket. It is narrative in style and includes reflections on the captain's sadness when his wife has to leave the voyage due to seasickness. Elsewhere it tends to focus on the practicalities of weather, whales caught and supplies.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference: MSS 220/LOG 34
- Collection: Ships' Logs Collection
- Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Nantucket Historical Association catalogue.
- Title from publisher's website.
- Description based on publisher metadata (viewed October 30, 2024).
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