Herald (Ship) logbook, 1803-1804.

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Herald (Ship) logbook, 1803-1804.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53802543

The logbook of the ship Herald details a shipping voyage from Salem, Mass., to Jakarta, Aug. 1803-May 1804. The ship's home port was Salem; the owners were Nathaniel Silsbee, Samuel Parkman, and Ebenezer Preble; the master and logbook keeper was Zachariah F. Silsbee. The logbook includes a crew list; accounts of at least one death; the detention of persons; diseases on board, including a dysentery epidemic; wounds and injuries to some of the merchant mariners on board; an episode of disorderly conduct; accounts of an attempted mutiny; and notes on shipboard occupations. The illustrations are profile views. During its voyage, the Herald spoke the brigantine Iris out of Wilmington, N.C., and the ship Severn.

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Peabody Essex Museum

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Peabody Essex Museum

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Silsbee, Nathaniel, 1773-1850

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6621qdt (person)

U.S. representative and senator from Massachusetts, shipowner, and banker. From the description of Nathaniel Silsbee papers, 1809-1844. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980464 ...

Parkman, Samuel B.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qr5krq (person)

Silsbee, Zachariah F. (Zachariah Fowle), 1783-1873

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65151j6 (person)

Severn (Ship)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zs9rdb (corporateBody)

Preble, Ebenezer

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rz1k32 (person)

Herald (Ship : 1845-1861)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66t5zqv (corporateBody)

Iris (Brigantine)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65j4bb1 (corporateBody)