Logbooks kept by Lorenzo Baker for the ROMULUS, HOUND and CORNELIA

Author/creator Baker, Lorenzo author.
Other author Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) digitiser.
Format Electronic
PublicationMarlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2022.
Description1 online resource.
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Subjects

SeriesLife at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-2951
Summary Logbook, 5 October 1854 - 28 May 1857, kept by Lorenzo Baker master of the whaling ship ROMULUS on a voyage from Mystic, Connecticut to the North Pacific. Log includes navigational data, a crew list and wages, a large bookplate on the inside of the front cover, records of whales killed, as well as whale stamps; Logbook, 23 August - 17 December 1859, kept by Lorenzo Baker, master of the merchant ship HOUND on a voyage from the Gulf of California to New York. Log includes navigational data, weather reports, a crew list and their wages, and descriptions of seafaring life; Logbook, 20 April -25 August 1866, kept by Lorenzo Baker, master of the whaling ship CORNELIA on a voyage from New London, Connecticut to Greenland hunting right whales. Log includes navigational data, trading interaction with natives, details of shipboard life, and records of whales killed.
General noteAMDigital Reference:Log 1020.
General noteMystic Seaport Museum: Logbooks.
Original versionReproduction of: Logbooks kept by Lorenzo Baker for the ROMULUS, HOUND and CORNELIA, 1854-1866.
Location of originalMystic Seaport Museum
Copyright noteMaterial sourced from the Mystic Seaport Museum

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