Scrapbook of the Charles Phelps and Progress, OneWhaling Ship, 1900-1954.

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Scrapbook of the Charles Phelps and Progress, OneWhaling Ship, 1900-1954.

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The title of the first newspaper article in this scrapbook reads: "Charles Phelps and Progress - A Whale Ship's History as Told by Documents and Logbooks." Written by James H. Weeks, Jr., but never published in book form, the articles gathered in this volume tell the story of a whaling ship, the Charles Phelps, built in Stonybrook, Connecticut in 1842. Captained by Palmer Hall, the ship's first voyage was to the Sandwich Islands. In 1866, the ship was rebuilt as a bark, renamed the Progress, and sailed to the Arctic on a whaling voyage, before it burned and sunk in the Calumet River in Chicago. Followup articles, published in the New Yorker Magazine in 1954 provide additional information.

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Progress (Bark)

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Whaling vessel, out of San Francisco, Calif., to the Arctic Ocean whaling grounds, mastered by Frederick A. Barker; owner-agent: Ivory H. Bartlett. From the description of Logbook of the bark Progress, 1881 May 29-Nov. 12. (Old Dartmouth Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 180701747 Whaling vessel, out of San Francisco, Calif., to the Off Shore, On the Line, and Western Arctic whaling grounds, mastered by Frederick A. Barker; owner-agent: I.H. Bartlett & Son...

Williams, Charles P., 1967-

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Greenman, Silas, Jr., b. 1796.

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Hall, Palmer, b. 1810.

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Charles Phelps (Whaler)

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Dowden, James.

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Customs houses

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Weeks, James, H., Jr.

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Phelps, Charles H., 1795-1840

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