The Marine room of the Peabody Museum of Salem . of theDecks & Two men Drounded ye 19th. of Dec. [1765].t[ This shews the schooner Baltick On the Middle Groundgoing into Cape Fare in a Very hard Gale of Wind with thePilot boat beating out to Her. Feby 16th. 1766. These arethe oldest pictures known to exist of any Salem ship. Belisarius, ship, of Salem, built by Enos Briggs at Salem, 1794,261 tons. Copy by M. Macpherson of original water-color paintingby M. Come. The Belisarius was owned by the Crownin-shields and on her first voyage in 1794 was commanded byGeorge Crowninshield, Jr., later the


The Marine room of the Peabody Museum of Salem . of theDecks & Two men Drounded ye 19th. of Dec. [1765].t[ This shews the schooner Baltick On the Middle Groundgoing into Cape Fare in a Very hard Gale of Wind with thePilot boat beating out to Her. Feby 16th. 1766. These arethe oldest pictures known to exist of any Salem ship. Belisarius, ship, of Salem, built by Enos Briggs at Salem, 1794,261 tons. Copy by M. Macpherson of original water-color paintingby M. Come. The Belisarius was owned by the Crownin-shields and on her first voyage in 1794 was commanded byGeorge Crowninshield, Jr., later the owner of the yacht Cleo-patras Barge. She was afterwards commanded by who was captain of the Barge in her voyage tothe Mediterranean in 1817. Benjamin Howard, ship, built at Camden, Maine, 1857, 650 painting by a Chinese artist, about 1860. Bonetta, ship, of Salem, built at Duxbury, Mass., 1800, 227 tons. Copy by M. Macpherson of original water-color inscribed, —Ship Bonetta of Salem departing from Leghorn. 18. SHIP ??CHARLEMAGNE OF NEW YORK. ADDISON RICHARDSON, MASTERPainting by Frederic Roux, 1828.


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