Whaling schooner Era frozen in ice and banked with snow, Cape Fullerton, Hudson Bay, Canada

• Main Author: Comer, George (Creator)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport 1903
• Subjects: Whaling ships; Schooners; Sailing ships; Ships; Era (Schooner); Arctic; Bedford; Canada; Cape Fullerton; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Monroe; New Bedford; The Schooner
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5408

Port view of the whaling schooner Era in winter quarters and banked up with snow, December 1903, Cape Fullerton, Hudson Bay, Canadian Arctic. Environment Infrastructure Title supplied by cataloger. Information from original envelope identifies this as photo 37, # 19. Snow was used to bank the vessel during the winter. It provided insulation and protection from the wind. 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.