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From: Frank Reed
Date: 2009 Jan 30, 19:35 -0800
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2009 Jan 30, 19:35 -0800
I posted this a long time ago. Time for a re-run. I'm attaching a distillation of the logbook of the maiden voyage of the whaleship Charles W. Morgan. Many of you have been aboard this vessel, the last remaining whaleship of the great 19th century American whaling fleets; it is the center-piece of the collection at Mystic Seaport. Each dot shows the recorded latitude and longitude of the Morgan. Most of the longitudes were longitude by chronometer, sometimes by account. The yellow/green circles represent longitude by lunars while the squares are cases where the logbook reports the crew were "working lunars" (presumably for practice) but no longitude by lunar was recorded. The voyage began in September, 1841 and ended back in New Bedford at the very beginning of 1845. This was a fairly typical whaling voyage of that time period. -FER --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---