Nicholson Whaling Collection
Logbooks from the Nicholson Whaling Collection at Providence Public Library.
Logbook of the Omega (Ship) out of Fairhaven, MA, mastered by Israel Morey, on a whaling voyage between 1847 and 1850.
Logbook of the Nimrod (Ship) out of New Bedford, MA, mastered by Wanton Howland Sherman and kept by Charles M. Skiff, on a whaling voyage between 1848 and 1851.
Logbook of the Congaree (Bark), Enterprise (Ship) and Liverpool II (Ship); mastered by Weston J. Swift; and kept by Weston J. Swift; on whaling voyages between 1849 and 1863.
Creator: Congaree (Bark), Enterprise (Ship), Liverpool II (Ship), Swift, Weston J.
Date: January 1, 1849
Logbook of the Bowditch (Ship) and Covington (Bark), mastered by Nelson J. Waldron and Allen M. Newman and kept by Allen M. Newman, on whaling voyages between 1849 and 1859.
Journal of the Arab (Bark) out of Fairhaven, MA, mastered by Moses L. Snell and kept by Moses L. Snell, on a whaling voyage between 1850 and 1853.
Logbook of the William Wirt (Ship) out of Fairhaven, MA, mastered by Owen Fisher and kept by James L, Downing; Reuben H. Fisher, on a whaling voyage between 1850 and 1853.
Logbook of the Fortune (Bark) out of New Bedford, MA, mastered by William Handy, Jr. and David Evans Hathaway, on whaling voyages between 1850 and 1854.
Logbook of the Abraham Barker (Ship) out of New Bedford, MA, mastered by Ichabod Norton, on a whaling voyage between 1850 and 1853.
Journal of the Wolga (Bark) out of Fairhaven, MA, mastered by Grafton Luce, on a whaling voyage between 1851 and 1852.
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Subjects in this Collection
- Arctic Ocean--Description and travel
- Indian Ocean--Description and travel
- Japan -- Description and travel
- Logbooks
- North Pacific Ocean--Description and travel
- Pacific Ocean--Description and travel
- Seafaring life
- South Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel
- Stamps (marks)
- Voyages and travels
- Watercolor painting.
- Western Arctic Ocean--Description and travel
- Whalers (Persons)
- Whales