Accounts of the ship "Glory of the Seas" / Josiah N. Knowles, master, 1871 July-1876 Oct 28.

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Accounts of the ship "Glory of the Seas" / Josiah N. Knowles, master, 1871 July-1876 Oct 28.

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Volume containing autograph manuscript accounts, with printed maps annotated in manuscript showing passages of the Glory of the Seas. A map for each passage shows the ship's route, with times and distances sailed, and is followed by accounts of expenses while in port. Most passages are between San Francisco, California, and Liverpool, England; also included are passages between Cardiff, England, and San Francisco; Liverpool and New York City; New York City and San Francisco; and San Francisco and Sydney, Australia. Accounts list payments made by Knowles for J. Henry Sears and Co., ship owners, mostly to crewmember and for port expenses such as laborers, ship stores, repairs, and towing. Also present are newspaper clippings reporting passages made by the Glory of the Seas and by competing clipper ships. Laid in are four printed maps with manuscript annotations, undated, showing passages of the Glory of the Seas, 1876, and of other clipper ships commanded by Knowles, 1847-1870.

0.20 linear ft. (1 box) + 1 portfolio.

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Glory of the Seas (Clipper)

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J. Henry Sears and Co.

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Knowles, Josiah Nickerson, 1830-1896

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Josiah Nickerson Knowles was born in Eastham, Massachusetts, in 1830. As clipper ship captain, he commanded ships including the Wild Wave, the Kentuckian, and the Charger, setting records for fast passages. In 1858, he was stranded for several months as a result of the wreck of the Wild Wave on Oeno Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The Glory of the Seas was his last clipper ship command. In 1880, Knowles settled in San Francisco, where he was active as a merchant and shipper in the whaling industry. ...