![[WHALING] – MANUSCRIPT LOG of Charles Turner and his wife, aboard the bark Cornelia and the bark Napoleon, [Atlantic, South Pacific], 10 October 1871 – 24 June 1882, 91 whaling stamps and four drawings including 3 of the Cornelia, four volumes, 564 written pages in total, one folio (340 x 210mm), original boards with cloth covers (worn), three quarto (210 x 170; 210 x 170; 205 x 160 mm), half calf.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/CSK/2015_CSK_10413_0124_000(whaling_manuscript_log_of_charles_turner_and_his_wife_aboard_the_bark115054).jpg?w=1)
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[WHALING] – MANUSCRIPT LOG of Charles Turner and his wife, aboard the bark Cornelia and the bark Napoleon, [Atlantic, South Pacific], 10 October 1871 – 24 June 1882, 91 whaling stamps and four drawings including 3 of the Cornelia, four volumes, 564 written pages in total, one folio (340 x 210mm), original boards with cloth covers (worn), three quarto (210 x 170; 210 x 170; 205 x 160 mm), half calf.
AN APPEALING LOG MAINTAINED JOINTLY BY A WHALING MASTER AND HIS WIFE. Charles Turner set off from New Bedford on the 263-tonne Cornelia as an officer under the captaincy of Leroy S. Lewis, on a voyage that would return 278 barrels of sperm oil and 498 of whale oil – according to Starbuck – before meeting with calamity off the coast of South America in December 1873, when the ship sprung a leak. He records the alarming increase in the severity of the leak, from 3,500 to 12,000 strokes an hour, as they make for Paita. After arriving on 10 February 1874 and sending home the oil, the Cornelia was condemned and the ship and all her fittings and remaining cargo sold at auction, this recorded at some length by Turner. A second voyage of 1874-5 aboard the Napoleon, through the Atlantic to the grounds of Australia and New Zealand, proves more successful, this journal ending in Honolulu with Turner being appointed captain. After an apparent period of absence from the seas, Turner’s second voyage aboard the Napoleon, commencing 1 August 1878, is now logged by his wife. Her longer entries include meeting the famous transatlantic sailors Captain and Mrs Crapo in Talcahuano, described in April 1880 as minor celebrities even there, and the birth of a daughter, Clementine, in 1881 whilst in port: ‘was taken with labor pains had them quite severe all through yesterday & last night & at 8:35 this am the baby was born & we are getting along nicely’. Starbuck 640, 648.
AN APPEALING LOG MAINTAINED JOINTLY BY A WHALING MASTER AND HIS WIFE. Charles Turner set off from New Bedford on the 263-tonne Cornelia as an officer under the captaincy of Leroy S. Lewis, on a voyage that would return 278 barrels of sperm oil and 498 of whale oil – according to Starbuck – before meeting with calamity off the coast of South America in December 1873, when the ship sprung a leak. He records the alarming increase in the severity of the leak, from 3,500 to 12,000 strokes an hour, as they make for Paita. After arriving on 10 February 1874 and sending home the oil, the Cornelia was condemned and the ship and all her fittings and remaining cargo sold at auction, this recorded at some length by Turner. A second voyage of 1874-5 aboard the Napoleon, through the Atlantic to the grounds of Australia and New Zealand, proves more successful, this journal ending in Honolulu with Turner being appointed captain. After an apparent period of absence from the seas, Turner’s second voyage aboard the Napoleon, commencing 1 August 1878, is now logged by his wife. Her longer entries include meeting the famous transatlantic sailors Captain and Mrs Crapo in Talcahuano, described in April 1880 as minor celebrities even there, and the birth of a daughter, Clementine, in 1881 whilst in port: ‘was taken with labor pains had them quite severe all through yesterday & last night & at 8:35 this am the baby was born & we are getting along nicely’. Starbuck 640, 648.