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Illuminated Log of the Good Ship “Crown Point”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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A very amusing picture of an East India voyage in the early 'sixties is left us in one of a small collection of log books recently presented to the Society. By the time of the Civil War the importance of sailing craft was already on the wane, but it was not until after the war that the real change from sails to steam power began, and in 1862 a fleet of vessels still made profit of New England handicaps by carrying ice to the tropical ports.

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Business History Review , Volume 2 , Issue 5 , October 1928 , pp. 5 - 8
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1928