New Bedford Whaleship Crew List
date: label: date made
content: 1876-05
notes: label: Description
content: Every whaling voyage began with assembling a crew from whatever labor pool was available in a port city at a particular time. In New Bedford in late May 1876, 31 men signed to work aboard the 106-foot bark <I>Bartholomew Gosnold</I> for its next voyage. Less than half were from the United States; the rest were from Portugal, England, Ireland, Germany, France and Scotland. The two Frenchmen and one of the eight Portuguese were listed as blacks; the remaining men were of light or brown complexion. Four each of the crew were in their forties and thirties; 16 were in their twenties, and six were in their teens. Three of these teenagers, all from the New Bedford area, were only 16 years old when they shipped out.
place: label: crew list recorded
content: United States: Massachusetts, New Bedford
topic: label: related event
content: The Development of the Industrial United States
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: On the Water exhibit
label: Exhibition
content: On the Water
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: National Museum of American History. On the Water exhibition website
label: Related Web Publication
content: http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J. T. Brown
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.103009.03
label: catalog number
content: 103009.03
label: accession number
content: 12006
objectType: label: Object Name
content: crew list
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 5/8 in x 18 in; 29.5275 cm x 45.72 cm