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Log of the Tonquin / [Samuel Bridges].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bridges, Samuel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tonquin (Ship).
- Diseases.
- Freight and freightage.
- Latitude.
- Longitude.
- Lumber.
- Medicine.
- Navigation.
- Sailors.
- Seafaring life.
- Ship captains.
- Ships--Cargo.
- Voyages and travels.
- Weather.
- China--Guangzhou.
- China--Hong Kong.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Logbooks
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1845-1846.
- Summary:
- The logbook of the ship Tonquin details a shipping voyage from Boston to Guangzhou, China, Hong Kong, and New York, March 1845-February 1846. The ship's owners were George R Minot, Frederick H and James B Bradlee, Nathaniel Hooper, and Frederick William Macondray; the master was William G Blackler; the logbook keeper was Samuel Bridges. The ship's home port was Boston. The logbook includes details of the ship's cargo, lumber; wounds and injuries suffered by the merchant mariners on board; frequent illness and diseases on board, including malaria (ague), fever and dysentery; details of the ship's equipment and supplies, specifically provisions; and the naval medicine practiced on board. The logbook continues while in port.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference: Log 1207
- Collection: Logbooks
- Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Peabody Essex Museum catalogue.
- Title from publisher's website.
- Description based on publisher metadata (viewed October 30, 2024).
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