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Life on the Ocean Wave: Reminiscences of My Voyages Around the World [typescript]
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The volume is Charlotte A. Babcock's reminiscences of her five years at sea (1851-1856) with her husband Captain David S. Babcock aboard the ships Swordfish and Young America. She gives detailed descriptions of San Francisco, Hawaii, Canton (Guangzhou), China, Hong Kong, Bombay, Manila, and Singapore. She also discusses the people she met, parties she attended, and the activities of the sailors and passengers on board her husband's ships. Also included is a sketch of the ship Young America by Charlotte A. Babcock
mssHM 63954
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The tattooed man : a tale of strange adventures befalling Tod Moran, mess boy of the tramp steamer "Araby," upon his first voyage from San Francisco to Genoa, via the Panama Canal
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Teenaged Tod goes in search of his missing older brother. He takes a job as a cabin boy, and later stoker on a freighter out of San Francisco bound for Genoa. An interesting story because of the vividly realistic portrayal of life aboard tramp freighters in the inter-war years.
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James Bradley remarks on Board HMS Ajax From July the 18th, 1809
Manuscripts
The detailed maritime diary of James Bradley from the time he joined the Ajax, a British 74-gun ship of the line commanded by Captain Robert Waller Otway, at Woolwich on 28 July 1809. The Ajax served chiefly in the Mediterranean during the following four years. Entries include records of daily sailings, orders given and received, ports visited and stations kept, the comings and goings of other ships in the fleet, descriptions of actions at sea, daily shipboard life, and visits by distinguished persons including the Pope, the Princess of Wales, and the King of Sardinia. Bradley records an encounter with the French fleet off Toulon in July 1810 and gives an extended account of the the disastrous British landings at Palamos in Catalonia, Spain, on 13 December 1810.
mssHM 70178
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Charles L'ainé's logbook
Manuscripts
Concerns operations in the West Indies as well as Yorktown, Va. Contains watercolor drawings of a ship, an armillary sphere, and points of the compass. The journal has sometimes been identified by a title page on the first page of the text, "Receuil Contanans les Campagnes..." Covers the period from January 1781 to August, 18, 1782. Text in French.
mssHM 551
United States of America. No ardent spirits allowed on board
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Image of a ship in full sail at the top of the ship's articles for the ship George Turner signed in 1861; contract between the Ship Master and the seamen signing on for service on a voyage including printed text with manuscript text inscriptions in ink and pencil including a listing terms of service, the names of sailors signed up for the voyage, and other pertinent information.
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"A poem and a score [without music] for performance that captures, analyzes, quantifies, and archives time. The kinesthetic and material qualities of this artist's book embed Abel's text in multiple layers of meaning, requiring the reader to perform the experience of the passage of time, which ticks away with each turn of the page"--Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers web site, viewed December 13, 2018
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