Mercury (Bark)
Biographical notes:
Whaling vessel, out of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Charles H. Gifford, on voyage from 13 May 1873-6 Nov. 1876; owner-agent: William Phillips & Son.
From the description of Logbook, 1875 Sept. 21-1876 July 3. (Old Dartmouth Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70974755
Whaling vessel; out of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Charles H. Gifford on voyage from 13 May 1873-6 Nov. 1876; owner-agent: William Phillips & Son; built as ship at Rochester in 1822; rerigged as bark in 1855 until last voyage out in 1877; lost in Arctic in 1879.
From the description of Logbook of the bark Mercury, 1873 May 13-1876 July 12. (Old Dartmouth Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 74664784
Whaling vessel, out of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by George S. Tooker, on voyage 20 July 1863-25 May 1867 to the Japan, Arctic Ocean, On the Line, and Off Shore whaling grounds; owner-agent: William O. Brownell; built at Rochester, Mass., 1822.
From the description of Logbook, 1863 July 20-1867 May 25. (Old Dartmouth Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70977053
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Subjects:
- Bowhead whale
- Finback whale
- Globicephala
- Gray whale
- Humpback whale
- Indigenous peoples
- Marine accidents
- Punishment
- Right whale
- Seafaring life
- Seals (Animals)
- Shipwrecks
- Sperm whale
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- Whalers (Persons)
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Places:
- Indian Ocean (as recorded)
- Bonin Islands (Japan) (as recorded)
- Massachusetts--New Bedford (as recorded)
- Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) (as recorded)
- Cabo San Lucas (Baja California Sur, Mexico) (as recorded)
- Honolulu (Hawaii) (as recorded)
- Society Islands (French Polynesia) (as recorded)
- South Atlantic Ocean (as recorded)
- Brava (Cape Verde) (as recorded)
- Pacific Ocean (as recorded)
- San Francisco (Calif.) (as recorded)
- Mascarene Islands (as recorded)
- Chatham Island (N.Z.) (as recorded)
- Hilo (Hawaii) (as recorded)
- Saint Lawrence Island (Alaska) (as recorded)
- Arctic Ocean (as recorded)
- King George Sound (W.A.) (as recorded)
- Guam (as recorded)
- North Atlantic Ocean (as recorded)
- Massachusetts--New Bedford (as recorded)
- Hakodate-shi (Japan) (as recorded)
- Massachusetts--New Bedford (as recorded)
- Anadyr, Gulf of (Russia) (as recorded)
