Memoir of James Henry Crowe, master mariner, 1854-1856, vol. 5

Author/creator Crowe, James Henry author.
Other author Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) digitiser.
Format Electronic
PublicationMarlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2022.
Description1 online resource.
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SeriesLife at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-2336
Summary Volume 5 of the memoir written by Crowe, covering the years 1854-1856. This volume describes a voyage on the HURKARU (1853) from Melbourne to Hong Kong, then home to London. During a typhoon in the South China Sea, the ship was thrown on her beam ends and dismasted. Later Crowe supervised the completion of the EARL OF WINDSOR (1855) by the Willmett shipbuilding yard at Newport, Monmouthshire, and was master on her maiden voyage to Calcutta.
General noteAMDigital Reference:BGR/52/5.
General noteNational Maritime Museum, UK: Biographies (BGR).
Original versionReproduction of: Memoir of James Henry Crowe, master mariner, 1854-1856, vol. 5, 1854-1856.
Location of originalNational Maritime Museum, UK
Copyright note© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Genre/formAutobiographies.

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