![[WHALING] – MANUSCRIPT LOG of Philip Dinsmore (midshipman), aboard the bark George Washington, New Bedford and at sea [Atlantic, Indian Ocean], 21 June 1848 – 2 December 1851, 19 whaling stamps and c.137 drawings including 20 flags and c.21 coastal profiles including the Azores and St Helena, 266 written pages, folio (380 x255 mm), (some oil staining and damage to top margins with occasional small holes), sailcloth over calf.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/CSK/2015_CSK_10413_0125_000(whaling_manuscript_log_of_philip_dinsmore_aboard_the_bark_george_washi115118).jpg?w=1)
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[WHALING] – MANUSCRIPT LOG of Philip Dinsmore (midshipman), aboard the bark George Washington, New Bedford and at sea [Atlantic, Indian Ocean], 21 June 1848 – 2 December 1851, 19 whaling stamps and c.137 drawings including 20 flags and c.21 coastal profiles including the Azores and St Helena, 266 written pages, folio (380 x255 mm), (some oil staining and damage to top margins with occasional small holes), sailcloth over calf.
A particularly thorough and well-illustrated account of life aboard a whaling vessel, for two voyages on the 248-tonne George Washington, sailing from New Bedford first to the hunting grounds of the Indian Ocean and then around the Atlantic. Midshipman Philip Dinsmore keeps extensive records listing course, position, wind and weather, whale sightings and captures, anchorages, trips ashore, ships and coastal features sighted, also accounting for on-board housekeeping with lists of provisions consumed, oil sold out, casks sent home, letters left in bags, whales raised and by whom, and ships spoken. Alongside these meticulous records are notes on the increasingly sour relationship between captain and crew during the first voyage in the Indian Ocean; desertions appear relatively frequently, with two men failing to return from a trip onshore to trade bread with the Cape Verde islanders, whilst off the Seychelles the captain ‘put James Welch into irons for threatening to run away ... the crew came aft and refused to do duty unless James Welch was taken out of irons but the capt. would not comply with it and got ready to go to sea’. Rather unusually, for this voyage Dinsmore records whales sighted and captured with drawings displaying the barrel yield within the outline of the whale. Starbuck 452.
A particularly thorough and well-illustrated account of life aboard a whaling vessel, for two voyages on the 248-tonne George Washington, sailing from New Bedford first to the hunting grounds of the Indian Ocean and then around the Atlantic. Midshipman Philip Dinsmore keeps extensive records listing course, position, wind and weather, whale sightings and captures, anchorages, trips ashore, ships and coastal features sighted, also accounting for on-board housekeeping with lists of provisions consumed, oil sold out, casks sent home, letters left in bags, whales raised and by whom, and ships spoken. Alongside these meticulous records are notes on the increasingly sour relationship between captain and crew during the first voyage in the Indian Ocean; desertions appear relatively frequently, with two men failing to return from a trip onshore to trade bread with the Cape Verde islanders, whilst off the Seychelles the captain ‘put James Welch into irons for threatening to run away ... the crew came aft and refused to do duty unless James Welch was taken out of irons but the capt. would not comply with it and got ready to go to sea’. Rather unusually, for this voyage Dinsmore records whales sighted and captured with drawings displaying the barrel yield within the outline of the whale. Starbuck 452.