Abstract The Captain Robert P. Beebe Collection consists of correspondence from 1946 to 1988; design data consisting of notebooks, computer analyses, and correspondence with both owners and builders; drafts of published materials (Voyaging Under Power, 1975, magazine articles for Rudder, Yachting, and various other yachting publications); drafts of unpublished material (navigation book, Adventures in Small Craft Design); clippings from magazines and newspapers; technical data and product data; and...

Abstract This collection consists of the papers relating to the voyages of Alexander Hallett Holway (1824-c. 1909) as captain of the trading vessels ARETHUSA (Bark), ALEXANDER (Ship), BOSTON LIGHT (Ship), and ORPHEUS (Ship) between 1852 and 1864. Holway's trading voyages took him to San Francisco, the Puget Sound, Chile, Australia, Calcutta, and Liverpool. Documents include ship's manifests, bills of lading, crew lists, charter-parties, receipts, account books, photographs, newspaper clippings,...

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This is a collection of correspondence, bills of lading, accounts, receipts, etc. relating to a trading voyage by the sloop POLLY between New York, Copenhagen, St. Petersburg, and Charleston, S.C., and two voyages (1803-1806) of the ship SILENUS, with accounts, manifests, crews' wages, and bills from Antwerp, Amsterdam, the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town, and New York.