Papers, 1808-1895.

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Papers, 1808-1895.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85783947

The collection includes a letterbook of Candage's outgoing correspondence from 1860 to 1865, journals he kept on the Electric Spark from 1864 and 1865 and on the National Eagle from 1865 to 1867, as well as copies of essays he wrote on various seafaring topics. The collection also contains a small group of ships' papers from 1807 to 1817.

1 box (6 folders)

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8334865

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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National Eagle (Ship)

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Electric Spark (Ship)

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Candage, R. G. F. (Rufus George Frederick), 1826-1912

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Rufus Candage was born in Blue Hill, Maine in 1826, the son of Samuel and Phebe Candage. He went to sea at age eighteen, sailing along the coast of New England and then on voyages to the West Indies and to Europe. He served as master of the brig Equator and the ships Jamestown of New York and Electric Spark and National Eagle, both of Boston. He spent twenty-three years as a sailor, retiring in 1867 to Brookline, Mass. Rufus Candage died in 1912. From the description of Papers, 1808-...