A guide to the John B. Colley (bark) logbook, 1849
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A Guide to the John B. Colley (bark) logbook
HDC0027
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, National Park Service2012, National Park Service
Title: John B. Colley (bark) logbook
Date: 1849
Identifier/Call Number: HDC0027 (SAFR 13573)
Physical Description:
1__ unit]EA
Repository:
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Historic Documents Department
Building E, Fort Mason
San Francisco, CA 94123
Abstract: The JOHN B. COLLEY (bark) logbook (SAFR 13573, HDC 27) is comprised of a single volume sea journal written by an unidentified
author during a voyage from Norfolk, Virginia to San Francisco, California on the JOHN B. COLLEY (bark) in 1849. This collection
has been processed to the collection level and is open for use without restrictions.
Physical Location: San Francisco Maritime NHP, Historic Documents Department
Language(s):
In English.
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[Item description], [Location within collection organization identified by Collection Number/Series Number/File Unit Number/Item
Number], HDC0027 (SAFR 13573), John B. Colley (bark) logbook, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
SAFR-00001
This collection was transferred from Golden Gate National Recreation Area to San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.
Historical or Biographical Note
The JOHN B. COLLEY was a bark built in 1847 in Norfolk, Virginia. The collection material covers a voyage from Norfolk on
March 8, 1849. She arrived San Francisco on December 10, 1849, carrying 29 passengers and 12 crew, under command of Captain
William Smith. The voyage was apparently quite miserable for passengers. Other records show the bark calling in New York
in 1852,; and later it arrived at Astoria, Washington on March 7, 1854, from New York. Final disposition of the vessel is
unknown.
The JOHN B. COLLEY (bark) logbook (SAFR 13573, HDC 27) is comprised of a single volume sea journal written by an unidentified
author during a voyage from Norfolk, Virginia to San Francisco, California on the JOHN B. COLLEY (bark) in 1849. This collection
has been processed to the collection level and is open for use without restrictions.
In 1849, the JOHN B. COLLEY departed from Norfolk, Virginia destined for San Francisco,California.This sea journal was kept
by an unidentified author. The title is "A Tribute to those life-lasting feelings of Disgust, Contempt and Scorn Unanimously
entertained, By the Passengers, Officers and Crews of the Bark John G. Colley; For Captain William Smith of New York." The
journal begins with a letter to the "Passengers, Officers and Crew, and Fellow Sufferors & to Thomas P. Johnson, Esquire."
It is signed by "The Author." The tribute is in two parts and is composed of rhyming verse.
This is a one item collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
sea poetry
Gold Rush--California--1840-1850
Mutiny
Logbook