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Whaling ships

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

Samuel Osborn, Jr. papers

 File — Box Multi-Collection Box: [Barcode: 31116021976532]
Identifier: 003-02-25
Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence to and from Samuel Osborn, Jr., business records including notes on whales and lots of sperm oil, bills and insurance documents, and a small number of miscellaneous personal papers.

Of particular note are correspondences related to the Arctic whaling disaster of 1871 requesting compensation for the owners of the lost vessels.

Dates: 1845 - 1894; 1999
Found in: Providence Public Library / Samuel Osborn, Jr. papers

Papers Related to the Whaling Bark Kathleen

 Collection — Box Nicholson Multi Collection Box 1: [Barcode: 31116022115239]
Identifier: 003-02-33
Dates: 1899-1948
Found in: Providence Public Library / Papers Related to the Whaling Bark Kathleen

Ship's Papers of Perry (Bark) of Edgartown

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 003-02-13
Scope and Contents

This collection includes the records of the second and third whaling voyages of the Perry including shipping papers, correspondences, protests, bills and receipts, and crew accounts. The bulk of the records reflect the voyage of 1877-1880. Of particular note are details about the death of Master George Nickerson and crew dissatisfaction between his replacement, Master Benjamin F. Nickerson, and the First Mate, Horace Sherman.

Dates: 1875-1880
Found in: Providence Public Library / Ship's Papers of Perry (Bark) of Edgartown

Ship’s Papers of President (Bark) of New Bedford

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 003-02-27
Scope and Contents This collection contains papers from two of the President’s whaling voyages: 1865-1869 under master Edmund Kelley, and 1869-1872 under master Eber C. Almy. The papers for the second of these voyages are scant. The collection also includes papers regarding the ship’s building and maintenance history which are unrelated to any specific voyage. Of additional note in this collection is a volume of sailing directions for Buzzards Bay published in New Bedford in 1821, which has since been...
Dates: 1821 - 1875; Majority of material found within 1865 - 1873
Found in: Providence Public Library / Ship’s Papers of President (Bark) of New Bedford

Ship’s Papers of the Robert Morrison (Bark) of New Bedford

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 003-02-19
Scope and Contents This collection contains captain Andrew J. Mosher’s correspondence from a voyage of the Robert Morrison from 1880 to 1884, along with agent’s and owner’s memoranda and information about shipments of oil from this same time period. It also contains crew papers including accounts and permissions, government documents, a significant number of bills and receipts, and documents related to the condemnation and sale of the Robert Morrison. Researchers will also note diagrams of the bark’s cask...
Dates: 1879-1890
Found in: Providence Public Library / Ship’s Papers of the Robert Morrison (Bark) of New Bedford

Ship’s Papers of the Thomas Hunt (Schooner) of Stonington

 File — Flat file case Flat File
Identifier: 003-02-17
Scope and Contents

The collection includes the records of ten voyages of the Thomas Hunt between 1872 and 1884, including receipts and bills of sale, shareholders’ agreements, insurance certificates, crew lists and crew agreements, supplies and slops accounts, shipping papers, governmental documents such as foreign manifests and customs documents, and correspondence with ship’s agent Joseph N. Hancox.

Dates: 1872 - 1884
Found in: Providence Public Library / Ship’s Papers of the Thomas Hunt (Schooner) of Stonington

Charles Henry Wilbur papers

 File — Box Multi-collection Box : [Barcode: 31116021976383]
Identifier: 003-02-16
Scope and Contents This collection includes 69 letters to and from Wilbur, his mother, sister and brother in law, his friends, and two whaling agents, as well as a variety of other people involved in the life and death of this whaleman from New Jersey. The correspondence in this collection begins during Wilbur’s naval service in 1864 and continues through his whaling career and into the next generation of his sister's family, ending in 1916. It includes correspondence between members of his family and the U....
Dates: 1843 - 1916
Found in: Providence Public Library / Charles Henry Wilbur papers

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