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NEW BEDFORD, MA SAILING SHIP REGISTERS
by Clifford Sayre
16 June 1990
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Ahoy Maties -
I have three volumes of WPA transcribed archives (ca 1939) on the
ships registered in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1796-1939. There
are about 1200 pages of listings, alphabetized by ship name.
Each listing gives: name, rig, hailing port, date and place of
building, place of registry, tonnage and dimensions, names and
towns of masters (captains) and owner(s). The masters and owners
names are indexed for each volume.
There were 20 other districts in Massachusetts, in addition to
New Bedford. However, ships built in New Bedford were usually
temporarily registered there, as were other ships temporarily
registered there for various reasons. For example the 1796-1850
registrations include over 1200 ships from 182 different ports.
There are three search parameters: person name, ship name, time
period. I can search with only a person's name in the index of each
of the three volumes. If you know a time period, 1796-1850,
1851-1865, or 1866-1939, that will narrow the search. If you know
the ship, they are alphabetized in each volume. Depending on the
number of citations I find, we can decide what to do. The entries
are only about 10 lines long, but some ships were reregistered
several times.
In addition to having a ship named after him, (i.e. the whaling ship
in Mystic Seaport, Connecticut), Charles W. Morgan was owner or part
owner of four or five other ships. Anyone related to an Edward D.
Mandell has about 80 entries in one volume (about 13 ships) and about
the same number in another volume.
Clifford L. SAYRE, Jr.; 1415 Ladd St. ; Silver Spring, MD;
ZIP 20902; phone: (301)-649-3968
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