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[Bowditch (Ship) of Warren, R.I., mastered by Nelson J. Waldron, kept by Samuel L. Wood on voyage from 18 Sept. 1849-23 Apr. 1852]

Log, kept by Samuel L. Wood, relating to a whaling voyage to the Atlantic, North Pacific, and Arctic oceans, Bering Sea, and Okhotsk Sea; Includes descriptions of types of whales (blackfish, finback, gray, humpback, killer, right, and sperm whales), walrus, and seal seen or taken and accidents and death at sea, and shipwrecks; and whale stamps, ship stamps, drawing of whaling ship, ink drawings of anchors (denoting ship in port), ink drawings of ships (denoting ships spoken), accounts, inventories of whale oil, and poems. Other places represented include Brava, Rio de Janeiro, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii, Hong Kong, Kamchatka Peninsula, Maui, Honolulu, and Bora-Bora; Whaling vessel, out of Warren, R.I., mastered by Nelson J. Waldron, on voyage from 18 Sept. 1849-23 Apr. 1852 to the North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Indian Ocean, South Pacific, North Pacific, China Sea, Sea of Japan, Okhotsk Sea, Arctic Sea, and Bering Sea whaling grounds; owner-agent: Shubael P. Child; built at Newbury, Mass., in 1823

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