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For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. SEINE; ?; 1862-65; Galapagos Islands, Marquesas SEINE; Shiverick; 1872-75; Atlantic, Pacific ROSCOE; ?; 1849-51; Tasmania, New Zealand, Tonga, Samoa ALICE FRAZIER; Pollock; 1851; Atlantic GREYHOUND; Soule; 1862-64; Atlantic SUNBEAM; White; 1860-64; Atlantic, Galapagos Islands, Marquesas, Juan Fernandez Islands ENTERPRISE; Ardrey; 1902; Atlantic ALASKA; Pease; 1880-84; Atlantic, New Zealand, Norfolk Island ARAB; Bunker; 1831-34; Galapagos Islands, Society Islands D.M. HALL; ?; 1853-55; Atlantic JOSEPH GRINALL; Burbank; 1858-61; Atlantic, Galapagos Islands, Hawaii DRACO; Worth; 1858-62; Atlantic, Western Australia, Indian Ocean ERIE; Jernegan; 1855-56; Marquesas, Hawaii

Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200

For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. ABIGAIL; Clark; 1831-35; Pacific ABRAM BARKER; Shaeffworth; 1862-63; Atlantic ABRAM BARKER; Shaeffworth; 1863; Atlantic ABRAM BARKER; Kirby; 1866; Atlantic ADDISON; Sinclair; 1870-74; South Pacific ADELINE; Barber; 1860-65; Pacific (Please see reel PMB 304 for continuation of this entry)

Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200

For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. HIBERNIA; Booker; 1857-60; North Pacific MARTHA; Folger; 1845-49; Pacific PHENIX; McCleave; 1847-51; Pacific MARCELLA; Smith; 1844-45; Indian Ocean GREYHOUND; Gifford; 1867-71; Pacific EQUATOR; Riddell; 1831-32; Pacifc

Captain William Driver (1803-1886) was born Salem, Massachusetts, USA. He went to sea aged 14, and made his first voyage to Fiji in quest of beche-de-mer in September, 1872, in the ship Clay under Captain Benjamin Vanderford. He spent 49 months in the South Seas beche-de-mer trade before returning to Salem. Given command of the Charles Doggett, he sailed for the Pacific again in January, 1831. He remained at sea until 1837 when he retired to Nashville, Tennessee.

The logbook is for the voyage of the Charles Doggett. It begins on January 30, 1831, when the ship was 2,098 sea miles from Salem en route to New Zealand, and ends in March, 1832, when the ship was gathering a cargo of beche-de-mer in Fiji. In the interval, calls were made at Tubuai, Tahiti (French Polynesia), Pitcairn Island, Samoa, Tahiti and Niuatoputapu (Tonga). Driver's visit to Pitcairn Island from Tahiti was for the purpose of returning 65 descendants of the Bounty mutineers, who had been moved from Pitcairn to Tahiti four months earlier as it was feared that their island was becoming overpopulated. Driver describes this episode in some detail in an 1871 memoir accompanying his logbook of the Charles Doggett.
See also the Bureau's newsletter Pambu, December 1969:17.

Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200

For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. METEOR; Clasby/Bennett; 1831-32; MIDAS; Howland; 1861-65; Pacific MILO; Hawes; 1863-69; Pacific MONTEZUMA; Allen; 1846-49; Indian Ocean MOUNT VERNON; Willis; 1849-52; Pacific MYSTIC; Joseph; 1913-14; NAPOLEON; Fuller; 1864-67; Pacific NAUTILUS; Swain; 1855-59; Pacific NAVIGATOR; Fisher; 1841-45; Pacific NAVIGATOR; Palmer; 1845-49; Pacific NAVY; Sarvent; 1859-64; Pacific * - Sailed to areas other than Pacific or Indian Ocean.

Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200

For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. TWILIGHT; Hathaway; 1859; Pacific VALKYRIA; Lewis; 1914-16; VALKYRIA; Joseph; 1917; VALKYRIA; Joseph; 1917-18; VARNUM H. HILL; Freeman; 1863; VIOLET; Jackson; 1853; WADE; Downs; 1844-46; Pacific WANDERER; Cleveland; 1903-04; Pacific WANDERER; Higgins; 1908-09; WANDERER; Joseph; 1919; WILLIAM AND ELIZA; Barnard; 1831-35; Pacific WILLIAM HAMILTON; Swain; 1838-42; Pacific WINSLOW; Gardner; 1815-17; WILLIAM A. GRABER; Gonsalves; 1916; YOUNG HECTOR; Smith; 1853-57; Pacific - Sailed to areas other than Pacific or Indian Ocean.

Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200

For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. LOUISA; Slocum/Nye/Ludlow; 1869-74; Indian Ocean MAGNOLIA; Worth; 1831-34; Pacific MARCELLA; Morton; 1853-54; Pacific MARCELLA; Ellis; 1858-61; Indian Ocean MARCELLA; Chase; 1865-67; Atlantic MARCIA; Butler; 1832-33; South Atlantic HIBERNIA; Cole; 1833-34; South Atlantic ZEPHYR; Perry; 1836; Indian Ocean MARENGO; Devoll; 1848-51; North Pacific

In June 1853 two ordained Hawaiian ministers, Rev. James K. Kekela and Rev. Samuel Kauwealoha, and their wives, and two deacons and their wives, were chosen by the Hawaiian Missionary Board to sail on the English brigantine, Royalist, for the Marquesas Islands located 2,300 miles to the southeast. Accompanied by New England missionary Benjamin Parker of Kaneohe Mission Station, these native couples were the first Hawaiian families to serve as missionaries in the Marquesas, 1853-1909. Supported entirely by the Hawaiian churches and the Hawaiian Evangelical Association, the deputation of native Hawaiian missionaries was predicted to succeed where non-Polynesian missionaries had failed. Although support was strong at first, it diminished over time, and in 1909, with no hope of fresh reinforcements, the last surviving Hawaiian missionaries yielded their efforts to French Protestants from Tahiti.<P>

Also included in this collection is one folder of documents pertaining to an earlier mission to the Washington Islands (Marquesas), 1831-1834. A preliminary visit to explore the islands was made by Messrs. Whitney, Tinker and Alexander of the Sandwich Islands mission in 1832. A favourable report led to the departure in July 1833 of American Protestant missionaries Richard Armstrong, W. P. Alexander and Benjamin W. Parker and their wives to establish a mission in the Marquesas. Their labours proved unsuccessful, however, and the mission was aborted. They returned to the Sandwich Islands the following year to resume their missionary work.

The Marquesas Collection, 1831-1834, 1853-1918, consists of 2.5 linear feet of manuscript material, including personal letters, formal reports of general meetings and mission station reports. Correspondence by native Hawaiian missionaries to the Hawaiian Evangelical Association in Honolulu is in the Hawaiian language. A portion of this correspondence was translated into English in the 1930s by Rev. Henry Pratt Judd, a member of the Hawaiian Board of Missions and the grandson of American Protestant missionary, Gerrit P. Judd. Microfilm copies of these translations can be found at PMB 1171. See Finding aids for details.

In June 1853 two ordained Hawaiian ministers, Rev. James K. Kekela and Rev. Samuel Kauwealoha, and their wives, and two deacons and their wives, were chosen by the Hawaiian Missionary Board to sail on the English brigantine, Royalist, for the Marquesas Islands located 2,300 miles to the southeast. Accompanied by New England missionary Benjamin Parker of Kaneohe Mission Station, these native couples were the first Hawaiian families to serve as missionaries in the Marquesas, 1853-1909. Supportedentirely by the Hawaiian churches and the Hawaiian Evangelical Association, the deputation of native Hawaiian missionaries was predicted to succeed where non-Polynesian missionaries had failed. Although support was strong at first, it diminished over time, and in 1909, with no hope of fresh reinforcements, the last surviving Hawaiian missionaries yielded their efforts
to French Protestants from Tahiti.<P>
Also included in this collection is one folder of documents pertaining to an
earlier mission to the Washington Islands (Marquesas), 1831-1834. A preliminary visit to explore the islands was made by Messrs. Whitney, Tinker and Alexander of the Sandwich Islands mission in 1832. A favourable report led to the departure in July 1833 of American Protestant missionaries Richard Armstrong, W. P. Alexander and Benjamin W. Parker and their wives to establish a mission in the Marquesas. Their labours proved unsuccessful, however, and the mission was aborted. They returned to the Sandwich Islands the following year to resume their missionary work.

The <I>Marquesas Collection, 1831-1834, 1853-1918</I>, consists of 2.5 linear feet of manuscript material, including personal letters, formal reports of general meetings and mission station reports. Correspondence by native Hawaiian missionaries to the Hawaiian Evangelical Association in Honolulu is in the Hawaiian language. A portion of this correspondence was translated into English in the 1930s by Rev. Henry Pratt Judd, a member of the Hawaiian Board of Missions and the grandson of American Protestant missionary, Gerrit P. Judd. Nancy J. Morris, PhD. of the University of Hawai'i Special Collections, Hamilton Library, and author of Hawaiian Missionaries Abroad, 1852-1909, also provided translations for some of the documents in the 1980s. Microfilm copies of the original Hawaiian documents can be found at PMB 1170. See Finding aids for details.