Polynesia (Ship) Logbook, 1856.

by: Perkins, Joseph Warren

Publication date: 1856

Usage: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International

Topics: Hunnewell, James, 1794-1869, Perkins, Joseph Warren, Logbooks, Diaries, Shipping--New York (State)--New York, Shipping--California--San Francisco, Logbooks—1856, Logbooks--Shipboard occupations, Logbooks--Sailors--Disorderly conduct, Polynesia (Ship)

Collection: pemlogbooks; pemphillips

Language: english-handwritten

The logbook of the ship Polynesia details a voyage from New York to San Francisco (Apr. to June 1856). It includes diary entries. Home port was Boston; owner was James Hunnewell; master and log keeper was Joseph Warren Perkins. It is a daily log describing wind, weather, location, shipboard occupations, and disorderly conduct. Bound with the bark Three Brothers.

Howland and Company; purchase; June 9, 1981.

The digitization of this logbook was funded by a gift from the Pingree heirs.

For permission to publish material from this collection, please contact research@pem.org.

Perkins, Joseph Warren, Polynesia (Ship) Logbook, 1856, Log 579. Courtesy of Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Rowley, MA.

Ships’ papers for many of the vessels owned by David Pingree are available online at the Phillips Library Digital Collections.