ENWhaling Log of the Ship Levant, 1851-1855
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Title: Whaling Log of the Ship Levant, 1851-1855
Description: Page's 1-6: record of whale bone bought of natives, list of whale oil "stowed in the hole," list of sperm oil shipped home from Hobertown; pp.'s 7-108: incomplete account kept aboard the whaling ship Levant, on a voyage from Sag Harbor, N.Y. to the North Pacific Ocean, 7 August 1851 - ? (dates contained in this journal are 7 August 1851 - 25 October 1855), owned by Huntting Cooper, commanded by Captain Mercator Cooper. Account contains large gaps: 29 October 1851 - 4 November 1852 (pages torn out); 25 May 1853 (last entry off Alaskan Coast, in Bering Sea) - 2 February 1855 (restarts, nearly two years later, in South Pacific, with a cargo of Chinese passengers). Other gaps: 8 April - 16 May 1855; 26 May - 25 June 1855; intermittent entries between 26 June - 15 October 1855 (Lund lists ship as sold in a foreign port). Inserted handwritten and typed abstractions of parts of voyage. Name plate attached to cover: M.C. Kendrick Southampton, # 3 (of 10) (Kendrick was donor).
Creator: Cooper, Mercator, 1803-1872
Subject: Books; Whaling; Ships; Sag Harbor
Contributors: M.C. Kendrick
Date of Original: 1851-1855
Time Period: Jacksonian Era (1828-1859)
Physical Format: Whaling Logs
Type: Text
Language: eng
Format of Digital: image/JPEG
Holding Institution: East Hampton Library, Long Island Collection
Contact Information: The Long Island Collection, East Hampton Library, 159 Main St., East Hampton, NY 11937. Tel: 631-324-0222 ext. 4. Email: lic@easthamptonlibrary.org.
Digital Collection: Digital Long Island
Library Council: Long Island Library Resources Council
Rights: For educational use only. Please credit: The East Hampton Library, Long Island Collection. For any other use, please contact The Long Island Collection, East Hampton Library, 159 Main St., East Hampton, NY 11937. 631-324-0222 x 4 or email lic@easthamptonlibrary.org.
File Name: 30625990000213
Repository: New York Heritage Digital Collections
Source: From: Whaling Log of the Ship Levant, 1851-1855