Benjamin Thompson Papers

Private journals/ships' logs (October 1860 - July 1878) of Benjamin Thompson, master of the brigs <emph render="italic" xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9">Progressive Age</emph> and <emph render="italic" xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9">T. A. Darrell</emph>, and the ships <emph render="italic" xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9">Sportsman</emph>, and <emph render="italic" xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9">Harrisburg</emph> (v. 1, 1860-1865), commander of the ship <emph render="italic" xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9">Columbia</emph> (v. 2, 1865-1870), master of the ship <emph render="italic" xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9">Peruvian</emph> (v. 3, 1870-1872), and captain of the clipper ship <emph render="italic" xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9">Great Admiral </emph>(v. 4, 1874-1878), illustrating his career aboard sailing ships trading between England, the east and west coasts of America, Southeast Asia (Singapore, Manila, and Hong Kong), and Tokyo, Japan, including highly detailed and dramatic accounts of shipboard life and commercial operations.