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Laing, George, fl 1830s : Diary on whaling voyages / transcribed by June Starke
- Date
- 1830-[ca 1833], 1992
- By
- Laing, George, active 1830s
- Reference
- MS-Papers-4532
- Description
The diary contains entries covering two trips made by Laing to the Davis Straits area as a doctor on whaling ships. The first set of entries covers the period 24 Mar-10 Sep 1830 on board the `Zephyr' and the second set is from 11 Apr 1833? on board the `Volunteer'. The entries describe Laing's duties as a doctor and also note weather, position of the ship, sightings of other ships, whales caught and ship-board life.
Source of title - Supplied title
Relationship complexity - Photocopy of the original diary is held at MS-Papers-0996
Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres.
Physical Description: Typed transcript (photocopy)
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Starke, June, 1923-2006 : Research papers
- Format
- 1 folder(s), 0.01 Linear Metres, Diaries, Transcriptions (Documents), Personal narratives, Typescripts, Typed transcript (photocopy)
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