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Whaleboats.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Joseph M. Chase ships' logs

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065438180]
Identifier: 4090
Scope and content

Ship logs kept by Joseph M. Chase, master of the whaling vessels Catharine and Franklin out of Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Dates: 1825-1844.

Sylvester Hathaway papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4940
Scope and content Logbook of the whaling ship "Twilight" and a photograph of its captain, Sylvester Hathaway; describes route and activities of the "Twilight." Also, manuscript reminiscences of Sylvester Hathaway, "Twenty-seven years on a whaleship," together with a typewritten transcription, and a copy of the Honolulu newspaper The Friend, August 11, 1859, containing a poem on the wreck of the "Twilight" and the subsequent rescue of its sailors by the "Morning Star." An article in the same issue further...
Dates: [ca. 1850-1859].