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Benjamin Riddell journal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riddell, Benjamin F., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elizabeth Swift (Bark).
- Harvest (Ship).
- Rand & Paddock (Nantucket, Mass.).
- Anchors.
- Astronomy.
- Canoes and canoeing.
- Commerce.
- Death.
- Discipline.
- Diseases.
- Drowning.
- Duty.
- Floods.
- Food.
- Health.
- Ice.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Medicine.
- Missionaries.
- Navigation.
- Postal service.
- Salvage.
- Sealing.
- Shipwrecks.
- Storms.
- Tobacco.
- Weather.
- Whaling.
- Azores.
- French Polynesia--Marquesas Islands.
- Hawaii.
- Massachusetts--Nantucket.
- Pacific Ocean--Botany Bay.
- Pacific Ocean--Sea of Okhotsk.
- Russia (Federation)--Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai︠a︡ oblastʹ).
- Genre:
- Diaries
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1853-1857.
- Summary:
- Journal kept by the captain of the Harvest during a whaling voyage in the Pacific Ocean. Many island groups were visited, while a lot of time was spent in the Northern Pacific, especially the Sea of Okhotsk.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference: MSS 220/LOG 345
- 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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