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Identification: MSS 097, Item 045
Creator: Jenny Pitts (Bark)
Title: Ship's log for the bark Jenny Pitts
Inclusive Dates: 1862 April 16-1862 November 10
Extent: 1 v. (ca. 150 p.) ; 21 cm.
Abstract: Partial ship's log kept by a crew member aboard the bark Jenny Pitts describing the voyage from Galway, Ireland, to Chincha Island, Peru, between April 16, 1862, and November 10, 1862.
Language: Materials entirely in English.
MSS 097, Item 045, Ship's log for the bark Jenny Pitts , Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Item 045: Shelved in SPEC MSS 097
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Purchase, 1955.
Processed and encoded by Norieta Hagerty, January 2007.
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The "barque" [bark] Jenny Pitts , captained by Hiram Hall, traveled from Galway, Ireland, around Cape Horn to Chincha Island, Peru. In Peru the ship took on a cargo of guano to be sold as fertilizer.
The G. W. Blunt White Library at Mystic Seaport has records of registry for the Jenny Pitts from 1858 through 1882.
Sources:
Encyclopedia Britannica Online. "Chincha Islands." http://www.britannica.com (accessed Jan 24, 2007).
Mystic Seaport. "Jenny Pitts (bark)." http://www.mysticseaport.org (accessed March 13, 2007).
Additional information derived from the collection.
Partial ship's log kept by a crew member aboard the bark Jenny Pitts describing the voyage from Galway, Ireland, to Chincha Island, Peru, between April 16, 1862, and November 10, 1862. The log primarily contains navigational data, weather reports, and notes about the health of the crew.
The logbook is a bound volume, circa 150 pages, of which 86 pages have ink entries. A partial list of the crew appears under the date November 3, 1862.
Ship's log for the bark Jenny Pitts , 1862 April 16-1862 November 10 [Item 045]
