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Whaling schooner Era under sail.
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Title
Whaling
schooner
Era
under
sail
.
Creator
Comer, George.
Place
East Haddam (Conn.)
New London (Conn.)
Topic
Whaling ships
Schooners
Sailing ships
Ships
Topic-Organization, Vessel
Era (Schooner)
Genre
Photographs
Theme
Infrastructure
Livelihood
Description
Starboard
broadside
view
of the
topsail
whaling
schooner
Era
under
sail
,
possibly
taken
while
leaving
New
Bedford
at the
beginning
of a
voyage
. A
whaleboat
can
be
seen
alongside
the
schooner
.
Notes
Title
supplied
by
cataloger
.
Information
from
original
envelope
identifies
this as
Photo
187
, A
42
. The
schooner
Era
was
built
in
1847
at
Boston
,
Massachusetts
. She was a
New
London
whaling
vessel
until
her
last
voyage
out
of that
port
in
1892
; her
masters
included
James
Monroe
Buddington
and
John
O
.
Spicer
.
Captain
George
Comer
of
East
Haddam
served
on her as
mate
under
Captain
Spicer
.
Comer
was
later
master
of the
Era
for
several
Arctic
voyages
out
of
New
Bedford
,
1895-1906
. She was
wrecked
off
Miquelon
Island
,
July
27
,
1906
.
Citation
:
Captain
George
Comer
and the
Arctic
/
by
Fred
Calabretta
in The
Log
of
Mystic
Seaport
,
Winter
1984
,
p
.
118-131
, and from For
oil
and
buggy
whips
/
by
Barnard
L
.
Colby
,
p
.
178-182
.
Taken
by
Captain
George
Comer
(1858-1937)
, a
sealer
and
whaling
captain
from
East
Haddam
. He
went
to
sea
while
still
in his
teens
and was
later
master
of
vessels
from
both
New
London
and
New
Bedford
.
Comer
participated
in
voyages
involved
in
polar
expeditions
and was
Date created
[between
1897
and
1905]
Physical format
1
photograph
:
glass
negative
;
4
x
5
in.
Digital format
image/jpeg
Identifier
Accession
number
:
1963.1767.246
File
name
:
ms_m169449.jpg
Source
Mystic
Seaport
Collection
Comer
Collection
.
Rights
Reproduction
and
copyright
information
regarding
this
image
is
available
from The
Photography
Department
,
Mystic
Seaport
,
Mystic
.
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Photographs
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