Crew on deck of whaling schooner Era, Canadian Arctic

• Main Author: Comer, George (Creator)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport 1898
• Subjects: Whaling ships; Schooners; Sailing ships; Ships; Whalers (Persons); Era (Schooner); Arctic; Bedford; Monroe; New Bedford; The Schooner
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5319

Members of the crew of the schooner Era pose on deck in the Canadian Arctic, 1897-1899. Infrastructure Livelihood Title supplied by cataloger. Man at the far right is identified as probably Brass Lopes, a boatsteerer who made a number of voyages with Captain George Comer. 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, John O. Spicer, and George Comer. She was wrecked off Miquelon Island, July 27, 1906. Taken by Captain George Comer (1858-1937), a sealer and whaling captain from East Haddam. He went to sea while still in his teens and was later master of vessels from both New London and New Bedford. Comer participated in voyages involved in polar expeditions and was noted for his studies of Arctic peoples and their environment.