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Logbook of the Addison (Ship) Out of New Bedford, MA, Mastered by Samuel Lawrence and Kept by Mary Lawrence Chipman, on a Whaling Voyage Between 1856 and 1860.; V.1
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The Captain's Best Mate
The diary of a wife who, with their five-year old daughter, accompanied her husband on a three-and-a-half year whaling voyage.
Logbook of the Bark Addison
Log, kept by William J. Smith, relating to a whaling voyage to the North Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. Includes descriptions of types of whales (blackfish, blue, finback, humpback, killer, right, and sperm), seen or taken, death at sea, punishment on ship, shipboard medicine, indigenous people, and women and children on ship; and whale stamps, ship stamps, crew list, and accounts. Other places represented include Faial Island, Mocha Island, Juan Fernández Islands, Paita, Galapagos Islands, Banaba (Ocean Island), New Caledonia, Lord Howe Island, Chatham Island, and Bay of Islands.
The Whalers
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The Journals of Addison Pratt
Addison Pratt (1802-1872) was born at Winchester, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, the son of Henry and Rebekah Jewell Pratt. He married Louisa Barnes in 1831 at Durham, Ontario. They settled at Ripley, New York and had four daughters. Addison and Louisa joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1838. They migrated west and settled at Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1841. He was called on a mission to the Society Island by Joseph Smith in 1843. Addison Pratt began his journals at New Bedford, Massachusetts in October 1843, while he was otaining passage to the South Seas. While in political confinement on Tahiti in 1850, he wrote his memoirs, recounting his youth and whaling to 1829. The journals close at the end of his second mission to French Polynesia in May 1852. He died at Anaheim, California.
A Whaling Captain's Daughter
The diary of Laura Jernegan, a young girl who traveled with her family on her father's whaling ship in the 1860s who records her schooling, dangerous whale hunts, and the activities of her baby brother. Includes activities and a timeline related to this era.
Cooking on Nineteenth-Century Whaling Ships
Discusses everyday life, duties, ports of call, foods, meals, cooking methods, and holidays of whaling ship crews in the early-to-mid 1800's. Includes recipes.
