Logbook of the Sharon (Ship) out of Fairhaven; MA, mastered by J. Henry Swift, John H. Platt and Lillibridge B. King; and kept by George L. Bowman; on a whaling voyage between 1856 and 1861.

Contains sketches of whales, whale stamps. At front: crew list. Contains poetry; personal accounts; oil and bone records; and crew lists.

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Original record: Logbook of the Sharon (Ship) out of Fairhaven; MA, mastered by J. Henry Swift, John H. Platt and Lillibridge B. King; and kept by George L. Bowman; on a whaling voyage between 1856 and 1861.
Collection: Nicholson Whaling Collection Logbooks
Date(s): 1856
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Creator(s): Bowman, George L. (Creator)
Sharon (Ship) (Creator)
Subject(s): Arctic Ocean
Description and travel
Drawings
Fairhaven (Mass.)
Logbooks
North Pacific Ocean
Okhotsk, Sea of
Poetry
Seafaring life
Stamps (marks)
Voyages and travels
Whalers (Persons)
Whales
Type: Text

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