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Edward Horatio Faucon logbooks, 1850-1863.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Faucon, Edward H., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ericsson (Ship).
- Commerce.
- Health.
- Navigation.
- Seafaring life.
- Steamboats.
- Weather.
- California--San Francisco.
- China--Hong Kong.
- England--Liverpool.
- England--London.
- Florida.
- Florida--Key West.
- Florida--Pensacola.
- Louisiana.
- Louisiana--New Orleans.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- South Carolina.
- Virginia--Fort Monroe.
- Genre:
- Logbooks
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume).
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1850-1863.
- 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 those made in the ship Thomas W Sears from 16 Sep - 6 Nov 1850 out of San Francisco to Hong Kong with a stop at Hawaii; and ship Wisconsin commanded by O R Mumford from 1850-1851 around the world from New York to California, Hong Kong, and London. Also includes logs kept by Faucon as commander aboard the steamer Desoto from New Orleans to Philadelphia, 1862; steamer Ericsson from New York to South Carolina, 1863, with a brief stop at Fort Monroe; US store ship Fearnaught out of Boston to Liverpool and back, 1861, and from Boston to Louisiana with stops made at Key West and Pensacola, 1861-1862.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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