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Records of the Bark SEA QUEEN

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-056
Abstract

Records from the vessel's last whaling voyage, sailing out of New Bedford, Mass, mastered by Joseph Thompson, on a voyage to the South Atlantic, including papers relating to crew desertions, discharges and additions, repair of the windlass, and the survey, condemning, and sale of the ship in the Seychelles.

Dates: 1884 - 1888
Found in: Manuscripts

Records of the Holmes' Shipyard

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-046
Abstract The collection consists of accounts, bills, receipts, documents, and correspondence relative to the shipbuilding and management activities of Josiah, Josiah Jr., and Jonathan Holmes. The papers are concentrated between 1840-1878, and represent a rather thorough record of the Holmes shipyard during those years. Items of singular interest include a large collection of marine insurance policies, shipping articles, shipbuilding agreements, bills of sale, and cargo storage diagrams. Records...
Dates: 1820-1886
Found in: Manuscripts

Records of the Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-002
Abstract Scattered papers of the company and three of its predecessors: Coast Wrecking Company, Merritt's Wrecking Organization, and Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Company. Includes minutes of meetings of the National Board of Marine Underwriters (New York, N.Y.), primary stockholders of Coast Wrecking Company; auction catalog for sale of materials belonging to Coast Wrecking Company; salvage contracts of Merritt's Wrecking Organization; copy of a U.S. House of Representatives bill...
Dates: 1860 - 1926
Found in: Manuscripts

Records of the Mystic River National Bank

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-048
Abstract

The papers include charts, articles of association, certificates, by-laws, stockholder subscription, promissory notes, quitclaims deeds, mortgages, tax receipts, probates, licenses, stock receipts, powers of attorney, checks, correspondence, record books, account books, ledgers, and letterpress copybooks.

Dates: 1851 - 1957
Found in: Manuscripts

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 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 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

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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