New Bedford Whaleship Cambria Ship Stores Account during Pacific Whaling voyage, Captain Henry Pease: Hawaii, Tahiti, Chile, Hong Kong: Ship Cambria in Account with Henry Pease, Jr. Master. Pease, Jr. Antique Maps

Pease, Jr. / 1855 - 1858 circa / [Hawaii & Pacific - 19th-Century Manuscript] New Bedford Whaleship Cambria Ship Stores Account during Pacific Whaling voyage, Captain Henry Pease: Hawaii, Tahiti, Chile, Hong Kong: Ship Cambria in Account with Henry Pease, Jr. Master. (Safe 3, 114523) Folio. 19th-century half calf and cloth journal volume of lined blue leaves, marbled pastedown endpapers (free endpapers excised). Neatly printed stationer's label: "John T. Prince, / Stationer, / and / Account Book / Manufacturer / 112 State Street, Boston." Spine and corner leather worn. Approximately 50 pages with ship Cambria accounting. Some late 19th-century scrapbook-type notes and nursery rhymes unrelated to the voyage. A few old stains. Cambria's accounts generally very legible. Overall condition is good. Detailed Ledger of Sailors's Purchases and Advances During 1850s Pacific Whaling Voyage New Bedford Whaler Cambria, Master Henry Pease, Jr. Fascinating detailed record of seafaring life aboard a Pacific whaling voyage on the ship Cambria out of New Bedford, circa 1855-58, Capt. Henry Pease, Jr. Contains a wealth of evidence on seamen's life through the captain's accounting of ship store purchases, cash advances, police fines, and the like. The names of seaman (including numerous Pacific islander crew members) are listed, with their cash advances and purchases of various items from the ship's store chest throughout the extent of the voyage. The location of the transactions are noted as well: Talcahuano (Chile), Hong Kong, Tahiti, Honolulu, Hilo, Lahaina, Hawaii, Sea of Okhotsk, Ascension, Huahine (Society Islands), and the like. Several sailors noted herein as deserters at Lahaina, Honolulu, and other places in the Pacific. The Cambria s long Pacific cruise under Capt. Henry Pease Jr. followed a classic mid-nineteenth-century whaling route. She sailed from New Bedford, stopping first at Brava (Cape Verde), then on to Fernando de Noronha and Pernambuco (Brazil) before rounding Cape Horn to Talcahuano (Chile). From there she worked northward by way of Acapulco and Cocos Island, then into the central Pacific at Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas. The ship next turned to Hawai i - with calls at Lahaina, Honolulu, and Hilo - before heading north to the Sea of Okhotsk and the Kamchatka coast for her main right-whale season. On the return arc she cruised the "on-the-line" grounds and the Gal pagos Islands, with additional calls recorded at the Society Islands and even Hong Kong, completing a full Pacific circuit that linked Atlantic outports to Polynesia, Hawai i, and the far northern whaling grounds. Henry Pease, Jr. (1822-1892) of Edgartown, Massachusetts was master of the ship Cambria on the present voyage between Sep 12, 1854, and Apr 29, 1858. Pease was the second child of Henry Pease, 1789-1878, and Mary Fisher Pease, 1792-1836. Henry Pease, 1822-1892, became a mariner. By 1849, Pease is listed as the treasurer of the Edgartown Mining Company and master of their ship Walter Scott. Under the auspices of this corporation, Pease sailed the Walter Scott to San Francisco, California, with a crew seeking their fortune in the gold rush. The ship returned to Edgartown within two years and was refitted as a whaling ship under another man's command. There is an archival collection of Henry Pease Papers in the Martha's Vineyard Museum focused mainly on Pease's appointment as United States Consul to Cape Verde in 1882-1892. Henry Pease's first recorded voyage as a whaling master was aboard the Menkar (Ship) of New Bedford, Massachusetts which voyaged to the North Pacific, 1851-1854. He married Phebe Ann Smith in March 1851. On two subsequent voyages, Phebe accompanied Henry while he was master of the whaling vessel Cambria in 1854.