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440957
  • Title
    Whaling logbooks, 1845-1859
  • Call number
    PMB 692
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    440957
  • Issue Copy
    Microfilm : PMB 692
  • Physical Description
    microfilm reel 35 mm
  • Scope and Content
    Records of the following whaling ships: Logan, 1844-1847 (continued from PMB 691); Mary Ann, 1854-1858; Good Return, 1851-1855; St. George, 1855-1858; Atlantic, 1881; Montezuma), 1847-18512; Emily Morgan, 1854-1859; Hector, 1852-1856. Of special interest: account of Hector at Pitcairn Island, ship leaking deliberately holed by crew; account of partial eclipse of the sun, (Mary Ann), 1857 Mar. 25
  • General note

    PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 692
    Filmed for the New England Microfilming Project
    Available for reference
    Microfilm copy of original held by Old Dartmouth Whaling Museum, 18 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford, MA 02740
    No part of the contents of this microfilm may be reproduced in any way without the written permission of the holding institution
    See Robert Langdon ed., American whalers and traders in the Pacific, Canberra, 1978 and Robert Langdon ed., Where the whalers went, Canberra, 1984
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