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Papers, 1911-1995, of Henry Hill Anderson. Includes a variety of unbound logs, narratives, and journals as well as correspondence concerning Anderson pleasure voyage from 1911 Nov-1912 on the bark FOOHNG SUEY, from New York to Hawaii. During this voyage around Cape Horn he records navigational data, what he learns from the many different men on board, and the death of one of the men at the hands of the cook, who later jumped overboard mid-ocean. The different documents all record the same events and voyage but are written at different times and not all are complete. Anderson made this voyage following his graduation from the Adirondack-Florida School and before matriculating at Yale University. The collection also contains an edited log from his son, Henry Hill Anderson, Jr.'s, voyage on the schooner GEORGE B. CLUETT and the STRAHCONA from 1939 Jun 24-Sep 3 as part of the Tanner-Forbes charting expedition from Boston to Newfoundland and Labrador.
http://library.mysticseaport.org/manuscripts/coll/coll341.cfmRecords of the Schooner Orville Horwitz (Coll. 344): Records, 1846-1887, of the schooner ORVILLE HORWITZ. This collection includes paid bills, the protection certificate for Captain Chauncey Kelsey, and other papers. There are also two account books. The first contains the vessel's accounts for each port and details of the cargos for each trip. The second contains the date when each crew member was hired and their wages for each voyage. It is not clear who kept these records.
http://library.mysticseaport.org/manuscripts/coll/coll344.cfmIsaac Henry Strauss Collection (Coll. 348): Includes a variety of government documents from Strauss's time in the United States Navy, including personal identification cards, his Navy training course certificate, government dispatches, and two copies of the servicemen's magazine, "The Chaser." The largest series of government documents concerns the sinking of the USS POLLUX, on which Strauss was serving at the time, in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland on February 18, 1942 and the investigation that followed. The documents concern both the USS POLLUX as well as the USS TRUXTUN, which also wrecked that night, and the USS WILKES which was escorting both ships and include American and Canadian action reports, press releases, a list of the sailors who died in the wreck, copies of deck logs, trial documents, administrative and battalion orders, and Strauss's citation for outstanding performance of duty. The collection also includes correspondence regarding articles in Readers Digest and Oceans magazine that Strauss wrote about the disaster, to and from fellow survivors and readers, as well as correspondence about reunions organized by the St. Lawrence Heritage Society, the memorials at the wreck site, and the dedication of the United States Memorial Hospital in St. Lawrence. There are also clippings from Strauss's time in the Navy about war time events and the shipwreck, as well as later clippings that include the articles Strauss wrote about the disaster and clippings about the memorials at the wreck site, the United States Memorial Hospital, and Strauss himself. The collection also contains manuscript drafts, including a personal account of the shipwreck written by Strauss while he was in the hospital following the wreck, a rough draft of his article for Oceans magazine, and two other drafts of chapters written by Cassie Brown and George Whitely. This collection complements photographs in the general collection.
http://library.mysticseaport.org/manuscripts/coll/coll348.cfmHarlow Collection (Coll. 349): Collection, 1856-2006, of John Jones Harlow includes a personal memoir of his life on whalers, a logbook from the whaling brig LEONIDAS, papers relating to whaling and other personal papers. Memoirs and logbook contain descriptions of whaling mutinies, injury at sea as well as shipboard life. Logbook also contains whale and porpoise stamps.
http://library.mysticseaport.org/manuscripts/coll/coll349.cfmRoy G. Roberts Collection (Coll. 337): Collection, 1938-1964, consists mainly of U.S. Merchant Service instructor training manuals for Sheepshead Bay New York, New York and officer's training at Fort Trumbull, New London Connecticut. It also contains logbooks and papers related to shipping.
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deals with the languages that Melville encountered in the South Pacific
deals with events leading up to the American Revolution
pieces together clues about a sunken ship and her tragic voyage.
With a foreward by Mystic Seaport's Associate Curator of Small Craft, Peter Vermilya, the book also contains numbers Culler plans and photos now preserved in the Ships Plans and Photograph collections.
