Logbook of the Bark Congress

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1845
• Subjects: WhalingLester; Austin M.Congress (Bark); Whaling > Mystic (Conn.) > Lester; Austin M. > Congress (Bark); Austin; Lester; New Zealand; Sperm whale
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:21107; https://digitalcollections.ctstatelibrary.org/islandora/object/40002%3A21107/datastream/TN/view/Logbook%20of%20the%20Bark%20Congress.jpg

Two pages from a daily record kept by an unnamed member of the crew on the Bark Congress out of Mystic, Connecticut. The vessel was on a whaling voyage to the northwest coast of America and to New Zealand. The entries include the wind direction and relative speed, sightings and the capture of whales...