Ship Milton and Bark Callao logbooks
Scope and Contents
Ship Milton outfits and advances for crew for five voyages to the Pacific Ocean in 1869, 1873, 1876, 1880 and 1886. Captains T Wilson (1869), W.C. Fuller (1873), John R. Stivers (1876), and Sylvanus B. Potter (1880). Bark Callao outfits and advances to crew for four voyages in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, 1862, 1871 and 1875. Captains Frederick S. Howland (1862), Roswell Brown (1865), Ferdinand Lee (1871) and Henry T. Craw. On the last voyage the Bark Callao was condemned at Mauritius in 1878. While identification of race is not included in the crew list, crew lists from the New Bedford Whaling Museum suggest that both ships had Black crew members on the various whaling voyages.
Identification of crew members are from the New Bedford Whaling Museum Whaling Crew List Database.
Dates
- Creation: 1862-1889
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Materials stored onsite. Please contact specialcollectionsref@hbs.edu for more information on access procedures and reproduction services.
Extent
.25 linear feet (1 volume)Biographical / Historical
The Ship Milton was built at Milton, Massachusetts in 1815. Ship Callao whaling ship out of New Bedford (1842-1858) and was rerigged to a bark in 1858.
Details of this historical note are from the Library of Congress Authorities online database.
Physical Location
MANU
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Charles H. Taylor, 1929.
Processing Information
Processed: March 2021 By: Baker Library Special Collections Staff
Processing Information
To enhance discoverability, this collection was removed from an artificial collection of account books and other material relating to the whaling industry chiefly from New Bedford and Nantucket, Mass. in March 2021.
Subject
- Callao (Bark) (Organization)
- Milton (Ship) (Organization)
- Stivers, John R. (Person)
- Potter, Sylvanus B. (Person)
- Howland, Frederick S. (Person)
- Brown, Roswell (Person)
- Lee, Ferdinand (Person)
- Craw, Henry T. (Person)
- Author
- Baker Library
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- bak01386
Repository Details
Part of the Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School Repository
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