p. 6: The Morgan sailed on her first voyage September 6, 1841, under command of Captain Norton, with twenty-six-year-old James C. Osborn, also of Edgartown, as second mate and keeper of a journal of the voyage. Osborn must have been literarily inclined for he took a library of over seventy volumes with him, including books on history, travel and memoirs as well as twenty-two volumes of Marryatt’s works.
The Charles W. Morgan Ship’s Books, 1841
Leavitt, John F. Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport, 1973.
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The Charles W. Morgan.
Leavitt, John F. Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport, 1973.
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The Morgan, fully restored in 2016, is now the flagship of Mystic Seaport. It is thought to be the last surviving whaler.