Nathaniel Brown Palmer collection 1820-1821

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Nathaniel Brown Palmer collection 1820-1821

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Scott Polar Research Institute

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SNAC Resource ID: 6285709

Scott Polar Research Institute

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Hero (Sloop)

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United States Sealing Voyage South Atlantic 1820-1821

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Palmer, Nathaniel Brown, 1799-1877

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Nathaniel Brown Palmer was born on 8 August 1799 in Stonington, Connecticut. He went to sea in 1813, and was first employed in the coasting trade from Maine to New York. At the age of eighteen, he was given his first command of the schooner Gleaner, and in the following year, sailed as second mate aboard the sealing brig Hersilia on the United States Sealing Voyage (from Stonington), 1819-1820 (leader James Sheffield), in a search for new sealing grounds. The expedition searched for...

Palmer, Alexander Smith, 1806-1894

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Alexander Smith Palmer was born on January 26 1806 in Stonington, Connecticut, the son of a shipbuilder. He started his seagoing life in 1821 as a ship's boy in the brig Alabama Packet on the United States sealing voyage (from Stonington), 1821-1822 (leader Benjamin Pendleton), visiting Chile, Peru and the South Shetland Islands. He returned to the South Shetland Islands in the brig Penguin, in company with his brother Captain Nathaniel Brown Palmer in the brig Annawan, on the Unite...

Palmer, Nathaniel Brown, 1799-1877

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Nathaniel Brown Palmer was born on 8 August 1799 in Stonington, Connecticut. He went to sea in 1813, and was first employed in the coasting trade from Maine to New York. At the age of eighteen, he was given his first command of the schooner Gleaner, and in the following year, sailed as second mate aboard the sealing brig Hersilia on the United States Sealing Voyage (from Stonington), 1819-1820 (leader James Sheffield), in a search for new sealing grounds. The expedition searched for...

Pendleton Harris Captain

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United States Sealing Voyage South Atlantic 1829-1831

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