Whaling bark Canton (George Comer, second mate) leaving New Bedford

Metadata

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5260

Title

Whaling bark Canton (George Comer, second mate) leaving New Bedford

Supplied	yes

Origin Information

Date Created	1893

Parent Item

Mystic Seaport Museum

Connecticut History Illustrated

Resource Type

Still image

Digital Origin

reformatted digital

Description

Starboard stern view of the whaling bark Canton. On reverse: "The Bark CANTON / leaving New Bedford June / 1893 for Hudson Bay / I [George Comer of East Haddam] was 2nd mate with / Cap. Elnathan Fisher / took 5 whales gone 16/ months two men died on. this trip." Also on rear: "Hudson Bay Voyage."

Genre

photographs

Subject

Whaling ships

Barks (Sailing ships)

Geographic Subject

Extent

Source extent: 1 photograph : gelatin print ; 3 3/4 x 4 5/8 in.

Held By

Mystic Seaport Museum

Use and Reproduction

Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Photography Department, Mystic Seaport, Mystic.

Note

Note Type	source note
Note	Comer Collection

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Infrastructure

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Livelihood

Note

Title supplied by cataloger. On mount, 4 1/4 x 5 1/4 in. The bark Canton was built in 1835 at Baltimore. She was wrecked at Cape Verde, November 29, 1909. Captain George Comer (1858-1937) was a sealer and whaling captain from East Haddam. He went to sea while still in his teens and served on board a number of vessels out of New London, Stonington and New Bedford. Comer was later master of vessels from both New London and New Bedford. He participated in voyages involved in polar expeditions and was noted for his studies of Arctic peoples and their environment. Comer kept a journal while on the 1893 voyage of the Canton.

Local Identifier

Accession number: 1983.25.29

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Whaling bark Canton (George Comer, second mate) leaving New Bedford

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