[Covington (Bark) out of Warren, R.I. kept by Albert F. Peck]
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- [Covington (Bark) out of Warren, R.I. kept by Albert F. Peck]
- Author
- Albert F Peck
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- 1856
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[Covington (Bark) out of Warren, R.I. kept by Albert F. Peck]
Author: Covington (Bark)
Year: 1856
Log, kept by Albert F. Peck, relating to a whaling voyage to the North Pacific and Arctic oceans, Okhotsk Sea, Yellow Sea, and Sea of Japan; Includes descriptions of types of whales seen or taken (blackfish, bowhead, finback, right, and sperm whales), accidents and death at sea, crewman killed by a bear, punishment on ship, indigenous people, shipwrecks, and women on ship; and whale stamps and list of provisions used. Other places represented include Flores Island, Nauru (Pleasant Island), Maui, Pohnpei Island (Ascension Island), Hakodate-shi, Rota Island, Callao, Chincha Islands, Hilo, Honolulu, Guam, and London; Whaling vessel, out of Warren, R.I., mastered by Allen M. Newman, on voyage 16 Aug. 1856-8 May 1860 to the Western and Coast of Japan whaling grounds; owner-agent: Shubael Peck Child; built at Baltimore, Md., 1825.