Whaling schooner Era being outfitted (Fairhaven, Massachusetts)

• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport 1895
• Subjects: Whaling ships; Schooners; Sailing ships; Ships; Era (Schooner); Arctic; Bedford; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Monroe; New Bedford; The Schooner
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5246

Two views of the topsail schooner Era probably in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. In the top image, crew members appear to be loading stores on to the vessel. The lower image may show the vessel's owner onboard prior to the Era's departure for a whaling voyage to Hudson Bay. Infrastructure Livelihood Title supplied by cataloger. Two images on a single sheet. The schooner Era was built in 1847 at Boston, Massachusetts. She was a New London whaling vessel until her last voyage out of that port in 1892; her masters included James Monroe Buddington and John O. Spicer. Captain George Comer of East Haddam served on her as mate under Captain Spicer. Comer was later master of the Era for several Arctic voyages out of New Bedford, 1895-1906. She was wrecked off Miquelon Island, July 27, 1906. Citation: Captain George Comer and the Arctic / by Fred Calabretta in The Log of Mystic Seaport, Winter 1984, p. 118-131, and from For oil and buggy whips / by Barnard L. Colby, p. 178-182.