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Thomas Wade Abbot journal : Map iaries, Journals and Logbooks 08 Dec 1845 - 01 Oct 1846.

Author/creator Abbot, Thomas Wade author.
Other author/creatorAdam Matthew Digital (Firm) digitiser.
Format Electronic and Map
Publication Info Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2022.
Description1 online resource.
Supplemental Content https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://www.lifeatsea.amdigital.co.uk/documents/detail/thomas-wade-abbot-journal/21652727
Subject(s)
Series Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-2807
Summary Journal of a voyage kept from 8 December 1845 - 1 October 1846 by Thomas W. Abbot, a passenger on board the merchant ship JOHN G. COSTER, commanded by D.P. Benjamin, bound for Canton, China, from New York City during the American war with Mexico. Abbot's fellow passengers included George Townsend, Gilmore Meredith, and R.P. Dana. On the return voyage, the ship fell in with an American naval convoy commanded by Captain Henry in the sloop-of-war PLYMOUTH. The journal describes daily activities of passengers on board the ship, the daily weather, distance travelled, Whampoa and Canton, encounters with various American merchants in those cities, and the Naval convoy at sea. It contains manuscript maps of the Sunda Strait, Banca Strait, Gaspar Strait, Cochin, China, Gulf of Tonquin, Cambodia, Canton River, and Hong Kong and nautical charts as well. Brief stops include Hong Kong, Whampoa, Macao, Anjier, and Java.
Original versionReproduction of: Thomas Wade Abbot journal, 08 Dec 1845 - 01 Oct 1846.
Location of originalMassachusetts Historical Society
Copyright noteMaterial sourced from the Massachusetts Historical Society
Genre/formMaps.

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