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Mattapoisett Museum

End of the "Gay Head"

End of the "Gay Head"

Name/Title

Newspaper

Entry/Object ID

0000.8.81

Scope and Content

Newspaper clipping: End of the Gay Head, also of $20,000 worth of sperm oil she had taken. June 1914. "Vancouver, B. C., July 19 - The whaler "Gay Head" has gone the way of its quarry. The old bark with the snug to'gallant masts and the Bermuda spanker is piled up on the rocks of West Head in Castle Bay, Alaska and $20,000 worth of sperm boiling is slathered along a mile of foam. Captain and cre of thirty were saved. L. E. James, Managing owner of San Franscisco was notified of the vessel's wreck through the wireless station at Chignik."

Collection

Mendell Research

Acquisition

Accession

0000.8

Acquisition Method

Gift

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Newspaper

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Serial

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Gay Head (Bark, Ship)

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

Jun 1914

General Notes

Note

Status: OK Status Date: 2015-07-14

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

July 14, 2015

Updated By

admin@catalogit.app

Update Date

August 28, 2021