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A guide to the President Taylor (passenger vessel) deck logbooks, 1941-1942
HDC0194 (SAFR 16474)
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Title: President Taylor (passenger vessel) deck logbooks
Date: 1941-1942
Identifier/Call Number: HDC0194 (SAFR 16474)
Physical Description:
10 items.
Repository:
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Historic Documents Department
Building E, Fort Mason
San Francisco, CA 94123
Abstract: President Taylor (passenger vessel) deck logbooks consists of nine volumes and one other item.
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], HDC0194 (SAFR 16474), President Taylor (passenger vessel) deck logbooks, 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.
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This finding aid does not have an agency history, biography, or historical note.
President Taylor (passenger vessel) deck logbooks consists of nine volumes and one other item.
Volumes 1 and 4 concern voyages between Boston, Massachusetts and Honolulu, stopping in New York, Balboa, Los Angeles, San
Francisco and Cristobal. W.S. Tyrell was a captain for the American President Lines. Volume 1 also contains a report of search.
Volume 4 includes a letter to local inspectors from the captain regarding a collision between the PRESIDENT TAYLOR and the
schooner PATAGONIA. Volumes 2 and 3 record voyages between Honolulu, Manila and Singapore also under W.S. Tyrell. Volume 3
contains two reports. Volumes 5 and 6 are for voyages between San Francisco and Honolulu under Captain A.W. Aitken. Volume
5 mentions blackouts, tanks and a naval submarine lookout. Volume 6 notes the birth of a baby boy at sea and a patrol bomber
circling the convoy. Volumes 7, 8 and 9 are for voyages between San Francisco and Canton. In volume 8, the captain is Albert
L. Herre. Volume 7 mentions the confinement of one ABS for mental illness and contains a report of engine room damages and
other documents. This
collection is available for use without restriction.
All materials are arranged into four folders.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Death at sea
Illness on shipboard
crew lists