Found 5 collections related to Shipping -- Atlantic Ocean

The S. Thurston was a brig based in Boston, Massachusetts. This collection consists of expense accounts of its voyages from Boston, Bangor (Maine) and New York to the West Indies and South America, listing the costs of equipment, services, and supplies, and dates from 1853-1856. At the beginning of the volume is one leaf containing accounts of the bark "Brunett" at Philadelphia. The volume also contains household expense accounts dated November 20, 1862 through October 1869 from somewhere in the vicinity of Bucksport, Maine less

James Clifford Gilmore, a sea captain of Searsport, Maine, kept this logbook of the ships Henry Darling and Caro. He kept the log on board the bark Henry Darling from 1860-1862 on voyages from Boston, New York, and Portland to Valparaiso, Havana, and New Orleans. He kept the log on board the bark Caro from 1865-1871, on voyages from Searsport to Glasgow, Vera Cruz, Galveston, New Orleans, Matanzas, Palermo, Philadelphia, and Mobile, and from New York to Genoa and back to New York and Boston less

Log book kept by British seaman John Thompson on board H.M.S. Sharpshooter and other ships, traveling from Plymouth to Brazil and Plymouth to coast of Africa. Certificates are for service on merchant ships and in the British Navy as seaman, master, pilot, staff commander, retirement, etc., signed by commanders of ships, officers of the Admiralty and others. less

These two logbooks were kept by Sargent S. Day on board numerous ships. One volume contains entries made from May 27, 1835-November 28, 1838 aboard an unidentified ship on voyages between Boston; Hobart, Tasmania; and Sydney, New South Wales in 1835-1836 and a voyage from Boston to St. Joseph, Florida, in November 1838 The other volume is a logbook kept on board the ships Austerlitz, N. B. Palmer, Shooting Star, and Washington Allston between 1851 and 1854. Entries were made on a voyage from San Francisco to Calcutta aboard the Austerlitz, in September -November 1851. That ship was abandoned and the crew was taken on board the N. B. Palmer, bound for Shanghai. This logbook also contains entries made from December 23, 1851- March 17, 1852 aboard the Shooting Star, whose shipmaster was Judah P. Baker, on a voyage from Canton to Boston. and aboard the Washington Allston, of which Sargent S. Day was shipmaster, from Boston to San Francisco, Singapore, Penang, Calcutta, and back to Boston, from September 1, 1852-January 14, 1854 less

Wallace Willant kept this logbook on board the ship "William G. Anderson," commanded by Captain James Hall. Entries were made from September 27, 1859-February 25, 1860 during a voyage from Boston to Cape Town, South Africa and from the beginning of the return trip to Boston. The ship's cargo was skins and wool less