The Marine room of the Peabody Museum of Salem (1921)
Robinson, John, 1846-1925, Peabody Museum of Salem · Salem, Mass., Peabody Museum · leaf 270
Salemships. Thatcher Magoun (1775-1856), who built the Henry Tuke,Brookline and other Salem vessels, was born in Pembroke, Mass., fromwhence so many ship-builders have come. After serving five yearswith Enos Briggs in Salem, he started business for himself in Medfordwhere he built in all eighty… … DESK USED BY DR. NATHANIEL BOWDITCHAt which he translated La Places Mechanique Celeste. The Ocean Express was the largest ship built at Medford, 2000tons, in 1854, and John Foster built the last ship in Medford in 1873.[See Brooks, History of Medford, p. 357; also, Ship-building atMedford in the…
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