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Ship's log of the Otago
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0033
Abstract
Journal kept by Henry A. Harding aboard the ship Otago documenting voyages from Port Blakely, Washington Territory, to Noumea, New Caledonia, with stops at Newcastle, Australia, and Honolulu, Hawaii, between April 18th, 1879 and December 11, 1882.
Dates:
1879 April 18th-1882 December 11
Journal of a voyage from Philadelphia to Antwerp
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0170
Abstract
Joseph Martin, a ship's boy on the merchant vessel Pacific, kept this ship's log during two 1820s voyages: Philadelphia, to Antwerp (Belgium), to Crounstant (likely Kronstadt, Russia), and back to Philadelphia with Captain Abiah Sharpe; and Philadelphia to Madras (India) and back with Captain James Moore. In addition to standard nautical data, Martin added a small number of illustrations, some in color, and many nautical and mathematical exercises, including...
Dates:
1820 April 15-1822 April 17, 1843; Majority of material found within 1820 April 15-1822 April 17