WHALING] – MANUSCRIPT LOG, aboard the Napoleon , New Bedford and at sea [Atlantic, South Pacific], 23 December 1858 – 6 July 1862, 257 pages of written text , folio (340 x 200mm) , contemporary half calf.
WHALING] – MANUSCRIPT LOG, aboard the Napoleon , New Bedford and at sea [Atlantic, South Pacific], 23 December 1858 – 6 July 1862, 257 pages of written text , folio (340 x 200mm) , contemporary half calf. Within just three months of the Napoleon setting off from New Bedford for New Zealand, her captain, Thomas Dallman, had been taken ill off Cape Horn, visited a doctor on Talcahuano Island, and left the ship after being diagnosed with a ‘heart ailment’, ceding control to the chief officer, George N. Macy. Macy was evidently an unpopular choice, and under his command several disgruntled crew members were clapped in irons, while on the 7 August 1859 two sailors deserted. The troubles aboard the Napoleon , as it plied the waters of the South Pacific, did not end there; after whaling off Sunday Island for over a fortnight, the opportunity of the ship’s anchoring on 20 June 1860 was seized by crewman Robert Brown as a chance to desert. Foiled in this attempt by natives of the Brataolong tribe, a knife-fight ensued that left the clan chief injured. Luckily for Brown, the log records his release the next day thanks to the intervention of local missionary. Starbuck 560.
WHALING] – MANUSCRIPT LOG, aboard the Napoleon , New Bedford and at sea [Atlantic, South Pacific], 23 December 1858 – 6 July 1862, 257 pages of written text , folio (340 x 200mm) , contemporary half calf.
WHALING] – MANUSCRIPT LOG, aboard the Napoleon , New Bedford and at sea [Atlantic, South Pacific], 23 December 1858 – 6 July 1862, 257 pages of written text , folio (340 x 200mm) , contemporary half calf. Within just three months of the Napoleon setting off from New Bedford for New Zealand, her captain, Thomas Dallman, had been taken ill off Cape Horn, visited a doctor on Talcahuano Island, and left the ship after being diagnosed with a ‘heart ailment’, ceding control to the chief officer, George N. Macy. Macy was evidently an unpopular choice, and under his command several disgruntled crew members were clapped in irons, while on the 7 August 1859 two sailors deserted. The troubles aboard the Napoleon , as it plied the waters of the South Pacific, did not end there; after whaling off Sunday Island for over a fortnight, the opportunity of the ship’s anchoring on 20 June 1860 was seized by crewman Robert Brown as a chance to desert. Foiled in this attempt by natives of the Brataolong tribe, a knife-fight ensued that left the clan chief injured. Luckily for Brown, the log records his release the next day thanks to the intervention of local missionary. Starbuck 560.
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