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A guide to the Charles Fyner Docker, Jr. sea journal, 1929
HDC0119 (SAFR 14035)
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Title: Charles Fyner Docker, Jr. sea journal
Date: 1929
Identifier/Call Number: HDC0119 (SAFR 14035)
Physical Description:
1 item.
Repository:
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Historic Documents Department
Building E, Fort Mason
San Francisco, CA 94123
Abstract: The Charles Fyner Docker, Jr. sea journal (SAFR 14035, HDC 119) is comprised of one journal recording an American Mail Line
voyage aboard MADISON (freighter) from San Francisco to Manila and return from September 27 to November 17, 1929. 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], HDC0119 (SAFR 14035), Charles Fyner Docker, Jr. sea journal, 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
This finding aid does not have an agency history, biography, or historical note.
The Charles Fyner Docker, Jr. sea journal (SAFR 14035, HDC 119) is comprised of one journal recording an American Mail Line
voyage aboard MADISON (freighter) from San Francisco to Manila and return from September 27 to November 17, 1929. This collection
has been processed to the collection level and is open for use without restrictions.
Docker records mostly information regarding weather and posiiton, and occassionaly includes his comments and opinions. The
vessel stopped in several ports such as Honolulu, Yokohama, Hong Kong, and Shanghai where Docker went ashore and recorded
what he saw.
This collection consists of a single item.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Death at sea
Freighters
Madison (freighter)
American Main Line
Sea journal