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Records of the Ship HOUND

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-004
Abstract

The collection details the Hound's activities from April 1858 through June 1859. Included is an abstract log, New York to San Francisco; disbursements at San Francisco; freight lists and crew lists; 5 cargo books; and other miscellaneous items.

Dates: 1858 - 1859
Found in: Manuscripts

Records of the Ship Joseph Conrad

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-042
Abstract This is a collection of correspondence, inventories, deeds, survey reports, crew lists, instruction booklets, work lists, accounts, bills, receipts, ship's papers, and blueprints, relating to the JOSEPH CONRAD and its operation. The collection also includes rough and smooth logs, engine logs, machinery logs, journals, order books, and rules and regulations for training sailing students aboard the U.S.M.S. Training Ship JOSEPH CONRAD, as well as a memorandum of agreement (1934 June 14)...
Dates: 1934-1959.
Found in: Manuscripts

Records of the Ship TUSITALA

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-072
Abstract

Correspondence, track chart, articles and newspaper clippings about the ship, and logbooks (1924-1925) for three voyages.

Dates: 1924 - 1939
Found in: Manuscripts

Records of the Sloop Hancock

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-011
Contents

This collection contains correspondence, articles of agreement, accounts, crew account books, crew lists, bills, receipts, and other papers. The crew account books include divisions of the prize brigs FRIENDSHIP and CORNELIUS, the prize schooner COMET, and the prize sloops HIBERNIA and VENUS. Other persons represented include Giles Mumford, agent, of Groton, Conn.

Dates: 1777 - 1783
Found in: Manuscripts

Records of the T.A. Scott Company, Inc.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-001
Abstract These records are the "wreck file"of the T.A. Scott Company, including correspondence, telegrams, transcripts of telephone calls, memos, bills, wreck reports, marine protests, newspaper clippings, lists of items salvaged, charts, divers' reports, surveys, blueprints, contracts, and legal documents, arranged by name of vessel, relating to nearly 500 wrecks, from little known barges to yachts and passenger liners; together with items relating to John Knight Bucklyn (founder and teacher in the...
Dates: 1889 - 1927
Found in: Manuscripts

Records of the Third School District, Stonington, Connecticut

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-080
Abstract

The third school district of Stonington, Connecticut encompassed Mystic Bridge (later Mystic), Connecticut. This collection includes minutes of meetings, tax lists, bills payable, and pupil lists; together with correspondence, bills, receipts, notices, subscribers' lists, and promissory notes.

Dates: 1823 - 1881
Found in: Manuscripts

Records of the yacht Caritas

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-061
Abstract

This is a collection of records relating chiefly to design, construction, and fitting out expenses, and running expense books for maintaining the yacht, including deck accounts, general and engineering expenses, and steward's accounts. Also includes correspondence, agreements, and specifications.

Dates: 1922 - 1932
Found in: Manuscripts

Records of William R. Bowers & Co.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-024
Abstract This is a collection of correspondence, accounts, bills, receipts, and other papers of Providence, Rhode Island merchant shipowners and agents. The papers relate to the ships MARY ANN, PANTHER, PROVIDENCE, and TRUMBULL, and the brigs AGENORIA, DIAMOND, and SMYRNA, which carried cotton, flour, coffee, rice, rum, and wine, and traded in the ports of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Cadiz, Spain, Java, Malava, Batavia (now Jakarta, Indonesia), Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), Canton, China, Lime,...
Dates: 1818-1837
Found in: Manuscripts

Redford Webster Sargent Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-103
Abstract

This collection contains business and personal papers, scrapbooks, clippings, and an unfinished biography of Sargent by his son, Redford Ames Sargent. Included is a journal kept by Redford Ames Sargent aboard the ship THOMAS DANA of Boston during a voyage 1888-1889.

Dates: 1848 - 1936
Found in: Manuscripts

Robert Palmer Wilbur Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-020
Abstract

The collection consists of scattered papers and volumes including a diary (1863) containing information on shipbuilding. There are also account, bills, and receipts (1876-1881) concerning Wilbur's command of the Ship M.P. GRACE and two survey record books (1896-1899)

Dates: 1859-1928
Found in: Manuscripts

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Hillman Shipyard 1
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Mallory, Clifford Day, Jr., 1916- 1
Washington Insurance Company in Providence 1