An example of a whaling captain’s wife going to sea with him. Whaling wives were usually known for their New England piety amidst the rough-hewn crews of 19th-century whaling ships. This is the diary of one of them, Martha Brown, who sailed from Orient NY aboard the Lucy Ann on August 31, 1847, on an eastward voyage round the world that eventually passed Cape Horn:
She Went a-whaling: the Journal of Martha Smith Brewer Brown.
Brown, Martha Smith Brewer. (Orient, NY: Oysterponds Historical Society, 1993).
- 1847-48 Whaling Voyage to South Pacific (aboard Lucy Ann).
- Maritime Reading
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She Went a-Whaling: The Journal of Martha Smith Brewer Brown.
Brown, Martha Smith Brewer. Orient, NY: Oysterponds Historical Society, 1993.
- Whalemen's Reading
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An example of a whaling captain’s wife going to sea with him. Whaling wives were usually known for their New England piety amidst the rough-hewn crews of 19th-century whaling ships. This is the diary of one of them, Martha Brown, who sailed from Orient, New York, aboard the Lucy Ann on August 31, 1847, on an eastward voyage round the world that eventually passed Cape Horn.