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Journals, kept by Pannes on board the ship JOSEPH CONRAD and 4-master bark PARMA on training and shipping Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific voyages; together with private journal kept during a tour in Saudi Arabia. Persons represented include Alan Villiers.

Abstract This is a collection of diaries, journals, letterpress copybooks, and logs, kept by Gray, his wife, and her father, Capt. Levi Hotchkiss, of Gloucester, Mass. It also includes logs kept by Hotchkiss on board the ships SHOOTING STAR, JOHN LUND and GRACE DARLING, engaged in the China, India, and South American trade; journals and diaries kept by Emma Gray, aboard the ship HARVARD (1855-1856) before her marriage and the steamer FIRE QUEEN, containing descriptions of China; and logs kept by...

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This collection contains 3 volumes, miscellaneous papers, a short transcription, a magazine article, and photocopies. One volume is a log for Olsen’s voyage on the GEORG STAGE, one volume is a log for Olsen’s voyage on the THETIS, and one volume holds the logs for his voyages on the WILLIAM P. FRYE, the SLESVIG, and the LORENA, and also includes sea chanties. The logs are written predominantly in Danish. A few passages, such as the sea chanties, are in English.

Abstract Included in this collection are letters to John Palmer at Newport during 1776 from family and friends. Two diaries kept by John Palmer between 1775 and 1777 provide insights into the Revolutionary Period, as do the 2 sea journals from the Privateer REVENGE. Present also are logs and journals for the Snow BLACK PRINCESS, Schooner LITTLE REBECCA, Sloop COUNT D'ESTAINGE, Brig BETSEY, and the Ship READYMONEY. Most of the material after 1800 (about 10% of the total) involves other members of the...

Abstract The Mallory Family Papers, 1808-1966 (bulk between 1886-1941), consist of twenty fiberdex cartons containing approximately 6,000 pieces and 86 volumes which depict 150 years of business activities of an important American shipping and shipbuilding family in varying degrees of completeness. They include primarily general correspondence, genealogical notes, racing records of family yachts, yachting recollections, statistical data on vessels owned and/or built by the family, newspaper...

Abstract Diaries, notebooks, diplomas, building specifications for various yachts, and miscellaneous papers. Includes invoices (1838-1843) of whale oil, sperm candles, etc., shipped by Capt. Edward Merrill of New Bedford, kept by Barney's father, George Barney, who clerked for Merrill; schoolboy diary and notebooks kept by his son, John "Peter" Barney, who worked on his father's boats on weekends and holidays; and diary (1943) reflecting Morgan Barney's debilitating stroke (leaving him with slurred...

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Collection, 1926-1988, contains the business and personal correspondence, poetry, drafts of “Rudder” magazine articles, school papers, Coast Guard ID, and personal journals of L. Francis Herreshoff collected by Muriel Vaughn as well as Mrs. Vaughn’s personal and business correspondence. This collection complements the L. Francis Herreshoff manuscript collection (Coll. 138) and ships plans collection (Coll. 38).

Abstract Correspondence and diaries, relating to Fish's daily life. Subjects include his command of the schooner HUDSON, brig EMELINE, and others and his shipbuilding career, associated with William Ellery Maxson, Simeon Fish (his son), Benjamin F. Hoxie, and Capt. William Clift, operating as Maxson, Fish & Co. (included shipbuilding during the Civil War). Other vessels represented include schooner ELIZABETH, brigs SAMSON and SARAH, and barks PILGRIM and WILLIAM H. BRODIE. Correspondents include...

Abstract Collection, 1816-1972, of Richard Columbus Mears. Includes letters to and from Mears and primarily his daughter Nellie Goodsell Mears, but also including his extended family, friends, and business associates discussing personal matters, financial matters, and news from home and abroad. The collection also contains personal accounts that include purchases Mears made on his many journeys for himself and his family and friends, papers detailing an inheritance dispute, and bills his daughter...

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Sea journals, diary, account book, obituaries, and related papers. Includes journal describing Pacific whaling voyages (1855-1862), out of New Bedford, Mass., by ship ALICE MANDELL and barks CLEONE, MARTHA, and SALAMANDRE; diary detailing voyage of the CLEONE, chiefly an indictment against the master and first mate; and ships accounts (1868-1871) of the brig CAMILLE, engaged in West Indian trade. Persons represented include Strout's wife, Jane F. Strout.