| Summary: | Starboard stern view of the whaling bark Canton. On reverse: "The Bark CANTON / leaving New Bedford June / 1893 for Hudson Bay / I [George Comer of East Haddam] was 2nd mate with / Cap. Elnathan Fisher / took 5 whales gone 16/ months two men died on. this trip." Also on rear: "Hudson Bay Voyage." Infrastructure Livelihood Title supplied by cataloger. On mount, 4 1/4 x 5 1/4 in. The bark Canton was built in 1835 at Baltimore. She was wrecked at Cape Verde, November 29, 1909. Captain George Comer (1858-1937) was a sealer and whaling captain from East Haddam. He went to sea while still in his teens and served on board a number of vessels out of New London, Stonington and New Bedford. Comer was later master of vessels from both New London and New Bedford. He participated in voyages involved in polar expeditions and was noted for his studies of Arctic peoples and their environment. Comer kept a journal while on the 1893 voyage of the Canton.
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