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1871-1900 Yaquina Head Lighthouse Letter books
The Yaquina Head Lighthouse was established in 1873 and is located on the Central Oregon Coast. The stories and history of this site are kept alive by trained interpreters who provide guided historic tours in period clothing. As you help us transcribe these documents we will be able to...
Letter book for the Receiver of Wrecks at Kingston upon Hull, England, 1855-1861
This handwritten letter book was kept for James Sparrow, who worked for the British Board of Trade as the Receiver of Wrecks at Kingston upon Hull, 1855-1861. The volume begins with an index of correspondents and subjects. While the book primarily records copies of all outgoing mail, there are...
Jack Sheridan log books
Jack Sheridan wrote several log books during his time sailing the vessel 'Portonian' in South Australian waters. Each is recorded in a three day to a page diary with entries made in pencil at regular intervals throughout the year. The first log has a note in the back page which refers to the...
George Jeffrey, Protector Diary
This diary, written by George Frederik Jeffery, talks about an expedition on board the H.M.S Protector from Port Adelaide to the Boxer Rebellion in China. Commencing on 6 August 1900, Jeffery writes of his experiences on board the PROTECTOR. He explains the entire journey as they stop at...
Waples Diary
The diary, written in a reporter style notebook, contains entries written by 'Tubby' Waples while serving on board HMAS KALGOORLIE during the Pacific campaign of World War Two. Waples writes of the general activities that occurred during the trip talking about the weather, the duties he...
Passat Diary
This diary provides a detailed description of Betty Northmore’s life as a stewardess onboard the Passat. She details her duties as a stewardess as well as the weather, activities on the ship and descriptions of other crew members. Her voyage on the Passat started from Port Talbot to Port...
Robert Lees Diary 1875
A diary written by E. Holland about his voyage to Australia with his wife. Beginning on September 11 1875, he writes of his travelling experiences which started at Oxford before travelling to Plymouth to go through the Emigrants Depot, and then heading on-board the the 'Robert Lees' to finally...
Diary of Harry Andrewartha
Harry Andrewartha, writes of his personal experiences as an apprentice on board the windjammer Moshulu. He talks about his voyage from Port Victoria to England via Cape Horn and presents a daily description of his time on the Moshulu performing his duties as an apprentice, the weather (an...
Prewett Diary
This diary consists of almost daily descriptions of passenger life on board the SS ORCADES. Travelling from February until March 1961, both Peter and Lorna Prewett write of their experiences as the boat journeys through different countries. They start off at Tilbury, where they boarded, and...
Oriana Diary
Elizabeth Greer, traveled on board the SS ORIANA in 1965, recording her experiences her diary. Travelling alone from Southampton to Australia, Elizabeth wrote daily and concise entries of her life as a passenger on board. She included details about her roommates and the friends she had made on...
Vernon Smith Diary
Vernon Smith’s diary presents incomplete entries of daily events on a sea voyage to the north of Australia in the lugger VENTURE. Entitled ‘Port Darwin May/July 1905’, it presents the daily experiences Smith had on board the ship as well as the different places he visited during his voyage. He...
Parma Diary
This diary contains personal experiences of the author’s life on board the windjammer PARMA from March 1936 until July 1936. The author, Eric Stevens, writes his diary as a letter to his mother and includes several entries of his activities and jobs while travelling on the PARMA. He recounts the...
Chief Gunner Logbook
The Chief Gunner’s journal provides, on one side of the diary, a rough journal by Edward Argent detailing the voyage to China of the PROTECTOR to serve with the Admiralty during the Boxer Rebellion. He writes of the events that occur during the voyage which involve travelling from Adelaide...
William Strapps Diaries
William Strapps’ 1879 diary contains almost daily entries detailing his voyage to Australia from Camberwell England. Sailing on the ship GARONNE, Strapps writes of his time on board living with different people and different nationalities. He also talks of his experiences on the ship from the...
William Hodge Diary
This diary was written in an almost ‘story-like’ way as the author, William Hodge, describes his life from childhood until his later years. Beginning in the year 1864, Hodge mentions his experiences working at a timber firm called John Saunders and Son as well as his interesting travels arounds...
Postboy Logbook
This diary logs the many travels that the schooner ‘Postboy’ completed during the late 19th century. It contains travels mostly from Port Adelaide to other gulf ports in South Australia such as Port McDonnell and Port Pirie. Mostly used as a trading ship, this diary also contains a travel log of...
JH Gill
These papers contain the memoirs of J.H Gill, a Lieutenant-Commander of the Royal Australian Navy. He writes of his time in the Navy, from when he joined the South Australian Naval Reserve in July 1898 until 1943 when he finally retired and became a ferry-boat master, still enjoying life on the...
Ships' Logs Collection
This is a collection of ships’ logs and shipboard journals assembled by the Nantucket Historical Association. Logs, generally kept by captains or first mates of vessels, include daily observations of position (latitude and longitude), weather, vessels sighted, and ports visited. For whaling...
Monterey Bay Historical Phytoplankton Project
Climate change is driving rapid changes in our biosphere on local and global scales. Our capacity to understand these shifts relies entirely upon two critical things: long-term biological and environmental observations, and an ability to discover and access them. Phytoplankton (microscopic...
MSM Manuscript Collections
Collection of maritime primary sources. Logbooks, personal and business letters from the collection of the G.W. Blunt White Library at Mystic Seaport Museum.
Monterey Bay Historical Zooplankton Project
Climate change is driving rapid changes in our biosphere on local and global scales. Our capacity to understand these shifts relies entirely upon two critical things: long-term biological and environmental observations, and an ability to discover and access them. Zooplankton (small animals...
Loughridge diary 1904-1905
The shipboard diary was written by C.W. Loughridge, the fourth officer of a cargo vessel, the "Torr Head" on its outward voyage from Ireland to Australia, via the Cape of Good Hope. It includes much observational commentary on Port Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and in particular Brisbane...
Herbert Mackarsie journal
Henry Herbert Mackarsie was born in or around the 1810's or 1820's and died May 12, 1857 at Monte Video, Uruguay on board HMS Indefatigable after having been removed from HMSS Rifleman on May 7th. Mackarsie was a surgeon in the Royal Navy having served on the Steam Sloop Growler under Commander...
Logbooks and Journals
The New Bedford Whaling Museum's archival collections consist of 1700 linear feet of manuscript materials documenting a range of New Bedford and regional industries, including textile manufacturing, cordage manufacturing, tool manufacturing, banking (1825-1936), business papers, whaling and...
Three Accounts of the Vasil'ev-Shishmarev Expedition of 1819-1822
This collection has been fully transcribed. Thank you! Gleb Semyonovich Shishmarev (1781-1835) and Mikhail Nikolayevich Vasil'ev (1770-1847) were officers in the Imperial Russian Navy. Their expedition of 1819-1822 explored the western coast of Alaska. These papers, from the Vilhjalmur...
Diary of Ichabod Barstow Peterson
1859 travel diary relating Peterson's experiences as mate on board the ship Garnet, traveling with a racially integrated crew in the years just before the Civil War. Includes details on his voyages to Savannah, Ga.; Liverpool, England; back to Savannah; to New Orleans, La., where the African...
Works of Alfred T. Mahan
Help the NWC Archives transcribe the works of Alfred T. Mahan, considered to be the theortical founder of the 20th century Navy, held in their collections. Mahan had a significant impact on the U.S. Naval War College and naval strategy globally. His theories on the importance of sea power...
William Hamilton diary
A log book/diary kept by William Hamilton relating to the activities of the Hamilton Pearling Company in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands collecting turtle shell, pearl shell and trepang, and the clearing of land for plantations. Hamilton travelled on the vessels "Canomie", "Ysabel",...
Olga Hartman Specimen Log Books
Olga Hartman was a distinguished marine biologist known for her extensive work on polychaetes, a class of annelid worms. Her career was marked by significant contributions to marine biology and taxonomy, particularly in cataloging and identifying polychaete species. Hartman's work was primarily...
Journal of Hezekiah Starbuck, 1770-1775
This collection contains the journal of Hezekiah Starbuck (1749-1830), a whaler from Nantucket, Massachusetts, detailing his daily observations and records on whaling voyages in the early 1770s prior to the American Revolutionary War.
P.W. Johnson Diary
In the fall of 2024, this diary was used in the class, "Environmental Issues of the Earth's Cold Regions". Each of the students were assigned a page to transcribe and index, and they all did a great job! Now we need your help in finishing and correcting the transcriptions. Please leave...
Early California
The letters and documents in these collections cover the 19th and early 20th Century in California. From businessmen to travelers, they share their experiences in the state. ** Please note that historical materials in the Early California Collections may include viewpoints and values that are...
Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) is a pivotal event in the histories of both Mexico and the United States. This conflict not only reshaped the borders of North America but also set the stage for future relations between the two nations. The war was sparked by the U.S. annexation of Texas in...