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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
Ship's log for the bark Jenny Pitts
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0045
Abstract
Partial ship's log kept by a crew member aboard the bark Jenny Pitts describing the voyage from Galway, Ireland, to Chincha Island, Peru, between April 16, 1862, and November 10, 1862.
Dates:
1862 April 16-November 10