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Edward Horatio Faucon logbooks, 1829-1837.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chalcedony (Bark).
- East India Company.
- London (Ship).
- Commerce.
- Fishing.
- Navigation.
- Seafaring life.
- Weather.
- California--Monterey.
- California--San Diego.
- California--San Francisco.
- California--Santa Barbara.
- Falkland Islands.
- French Polynesia--Marquesas Islands.
- Hawaii.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Peru--Callao.
- Peru--Lima.
- Rhode Island--Newport.
- Genre:
- Logbooks
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1829-1837.
- Summary:
- Logs kept by Edward Horatio Faucon, shipmaster of Milton, Massachusetts, of trading voyages from Boston to California, Hawaii, Peru, China, and London, among other places and cruising voyages while enlisted in the Navy during the Civil War. The logs contain mostly weather and navigational records.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference: Ms. N-1216
- Collection: Edward Horatio Faucon Logbooks, 1829-1863
- Title from publisher's website.
- Trading voyages include: ship Alert from Boston to Callao and Lima, Peru from 1834-1835brig Chalcedony from 1831-1833 commanded by Joseph Steele from Boston to Oahu, Hawaii and Monterey, California with stops at the Falkland Islands and along the California coastbrig Pilgrim from 1835-1837 out of Santa Barbara, California to Boston with stops made along the California coast to trade in hides, horns, and tallowbrig Plant 1829-1831 from Boston to Oahu, Santa Barbara, the northwest coast of America, and Newport, Rhode Island with a stop at Marquesas Islands.Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Massachusetts Historical Society catalogue.
- Description based on publisher metadata (viewed October 30, 2024).
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