English and Canadian Maritime Papers, 1702-1867, n.d.

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English and Canadian Maritime Papers, 1702-1867, n.d.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/667897519

Collection includes: a photostat of ships built in Blackwall Yard, London, between 1612-1907; a photostat of a Bill of Lading, dated 1655; manuscript fragment of a sailors song; Naval Pay Office documents from the reign of King George III; a seaman discharge certificate; listing of ships trading to British Colonies published by Horatio Hardy of the Jerusalem Coffee House, London; a lithograph entitled "View of the Tread Mill For the Employment of Prisoners" at the House of Correction at Brixton; hand sketches of different types of ship anchors in use at the Portsmouth Dockyard, dated 1847; manuscript document about rope used in rigging of ships, dated 1763; an extract of a letter composed aboard the Bombay Frigate; a Liverpool Custom House document; an abstract entitled "The West India Correspondence How Propounded and How Perform'd" by E. Drumer; two Port Warden's Certificate, Port of Boston, MA, for Bark Josephine and the Bark Celeste, both from Nova Scotia; and document written in Leghorn to appraise damage received at sea for the British Barque Belvedere.

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Peabody Essex Museum

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Peabody Essex Museum

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George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

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George III was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. George's long life and reign were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War, becoming the dominant European power in North America and India. However, many of Britain's American colonies were soon lost in the American War of Independence. Furt...

Greyhound (Ship)

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Blackwall Yard (London, England)

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Bombay (Frigate)

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Hardy, Horatio Charles

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Jerusalem Coffee House (England)

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Dummer, Edmund 16..-17..

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Portsmouth Dockyard (Portsmouth, England)

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Josephine (Bark)

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Whaling vessel, out of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Horace P. Smith, on voyage 19 Sept. 1903-17 July 1905 to the Off the Azores, Tristan da Cunha, Crozet, Madagascar, Mahe Banks, and South Atlantic whaling grounds; owner-agent: J. & WIlliam R. Wing; built at Bath, Me., 1877. From the description of Logbook, 1903 Sept. 19-1905 July 17. (Old Dartmouth Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70974753 Whaling vessel; out of San Francisco, Calif., mastered by E.B....