The Marine room of the Peabody Museum of Salem (1921)
Robinson, John, 1846-1925, comp, Peabody Museum of Salem · Salem, Mass., Peabody Museum · leaf 94
, 1823 and signed, — AntonRoux fils aine a Marseille, 1823. Altered to a bark, 1833,and made several whaling voyages. A grandson of Capt.Benson a few years since named his yacht Reaper. Thisdesirable way of perpetuating the names of ancestral ships isbecoming quite common as is also the use of old… … * i Q -25 3 S I Water-color painting inscribed, — Recovery of Salem andsigned, — Wm. Ward Delinr. 1799. The first Americanvessel at Mocha, Arabia, 1798, when she took out $50,000 inspecie for purposes of trade. [See Osgood and Batchelder,Sketch of Salem, p. 161.] Restitution, ship, of Salem, built…
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