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Field name | Value |
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Title | Memories of a Voyage of the Ship Sea Ranger |
Reference | MSS 256/Folder 2 |
Library | Nantucket Historical Association |
Collection | Benjamin Cartwright Papers, 1801-1968 |
Date | 19 Oct 1869 - May 1874 |
Description | Three copies of a journal written by Benjamin Cartwright recounting his voyage on the ship Sea Ranger. The account includes detailed and vivid stories of specific whale chases, and information on life onboard, in port and at the places where the ship stopped. |
Document Type | Journal |
Theme(s) | Trade and Commerce |
Keywords | whaling, crew, sailor's life, seaman duties, stowaway, death, funeral, food, supplies, whale oil, sperm oil, boat, damage, weather, repairs, recruitment, race, volcano, indigenous peoples |
Countries | USA; Australia; New Zealand |
Places | Azores; St Paul Island; Norfolk Island; South Pacific |
Ports | New Bedford, USA; Auckland, New Zealand |
Ships | Sea Ranger |
People | Benjamin Cartwright |
Copyright | Nantucket Historical Association |