Source

The Plough Boy Journals

The Journals and Associated Documents

The Plough Boy Anthology

19th Century American Whaling

Bonin Islands

Pitcairn's Island

The Collected Works of William Hussey Macy

The Seizure of the Whaleship George Howland of New Bedford, by Convicts at Charles Island, Galapagos, March 1852

The Documents

1827-1830 Journal

First page (Image)

Illustration (Image)

Transcription/Text

1830-1834 Journal

First page (Image)

Maloney fragment

Transcription/Text

Certificate

Lewis Monto's Seaman's Certificate

Boat Signals

Plough Boy's Boat Signals

Coastal Views

   Ascension Island

   Bonin Islands

   Boning Islands

   Diego Ramirez

   Ferdinand Noronha

   Martin Vass

   Pitcairns Island

   Sandwich Islands

      Oahu

      Oreehoua

   Society Islands

      Eimeo

      Otaheita

   Sulpher Islands

Fragments

Honolulu Note 1828

Honolulu Note 1829

Related Material

Sailing Vessel Identification

Types of Sailing Vessels

The Ship

Spars and Rigging

A Ship's Sails

Frame of a Ship

A Whaling Vessel

Deck Plan

Side/Interior

A Whale Boat

Whale Boat

Stores

      Whale-Ship Stores

Dictionaries & Glossaries

Ashley's Glossary of
Whaling Terms

Dana's Dictionary of
Sea Terms

Deck Plan of Whaling Bark Alice Knowles of New Bedford Mass (302.78 tons)

Deck Plan of Whaling Bark Alice Knowles

Side and Interior Plan of Whaling Bark Alice Knowles of New Bedford Mass."

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Key

1. Heel of bowsprit 17. Pumps
2. Paul-bitt 18. Deck-house
3. Cat-heads 19. Spare boats
4. Windlass and bitts 20. Galley
5. Forecastle companions 21. Mizzen-mast
6. Fluke-chain bitt 22. Cabin skylight
7. Foremast 23. After deck house
8. Fore hatch 24. Wheel and screw box
9. Try-pots 25. Fore channels
10. Try-works 26. Main channels
11. Cooler 27. Cutting-in gangway
12. Scrap-hopper 28. Whale boats on cranes for
    active service
13. Work-bench 29. Boat-davits
14. Chimney and flue 30. Mizzen-chains
15. Main hatch 31. Bit (for the belly-chain
    of the whale)
16. Mainmast

SOURCE:

                  BIBLIOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION.

Author: George Brown Goode
Title:       The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States
"Prepared through the co-operation of the Commissioner of Fisheries
and the Superintendent of the Tenth Census by George Brown Goode,
Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a staff of
associates
      Section V: Plates -- Plate 189: The Whale Fishery: Deck plan and sectional
plan of whaling bark Alice Knowles, of New Bedford, Mass.
(Sect. v, vol.ii, p.234.) Drawing by C.S. Raleigh.
Series: History and Methods of the Fisheries, (In two volumes, with
an atlas of two hundred and fifty-five plates)
Publisher: Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887.
and
Author: George Brown Goode
Title:       The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States
"Prepared through the co-operation of the Commissioner of Fisheries
and the Superintendent of the Tenth Census by George Brown Goode,
Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a staff of
associates
      Section V: Plates -- Plate 189: The Whale Fishery: Deck plan and sectional
plan of whaling bark Alice Knowles, of New Bedford, Mass.
(Sect. v, vol.ii, p.234.) Drawing by C.S. Raleigh.
Series: History and Methods of the Fisheries, (In two volumes, with
an atlas of two hundred and fifty-five plates)
Series: Serial 2003 -- Miscellaneous Documents of the Senate of the United States
(First Session of the Forty-seventh Congress, 1881-'82),
Vol 11, 47th Congress, 1st Session, Mis. Doc. 124, Part 7.
Publisher: Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889.


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