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Captain of HMHS Britannic Commodore Charles Alfred Bartlett CB CBE RD (21 August 1868 – 15 February 1945) was a merchant seaman and Royal Naval Reserve officer, who achieved command status with the White Star Line shipping company, including as captain of HMHS Britannic .
Robert Bennet Forbes (September 18, 1804 – November 23, 1889), was an American sea captain, China merchant and ship owner. [1] He was active in ship construction, maritime safety, the opium trade, and charitable activities, including food aid to Ireland, which became known as America's first major disaster relief effort.
William T. Shorey (July 13, 1859 – April 15, 1919) was a late 19th-century American whaling ship captain known to his crew as the Black Ahab. [1] He was born in Barbados July 13, 1859. He was of African descent through Barbados . [ 2 ]
View history; Tools. Tools. move to ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... 1769 – April 23, 1841) was an American explorer and sea captain, known as the ...
An important person on the captain's staff that Bradford oddly neglected to mention was the ship's surgeon, a young man just out of apprenticeship as a London barber-surgeon by the name of Giles Heale. His name appears as a witness to the death-bed will of William Mullins in February 1621.
Waterman was born in Hudson, New York, the son of a Nantucket whaling captain. His father died at sea when the boy was eight, and the family moved to Fairfield, Connecticut. [ 1 ] Waterman first went to sea at age 12 aboard a China trader, and spent most of the next nine years aboard transatlantic packet ships.
He made his first voyage to Australia as captain of Boa Vista in 1827. [3] He was a regular trader to Australia by the time he arrived in command of the Brothers (325 tons) in August 1832. [4] In 1838 he took command of Royal Saxon for London shipowner, merchant and banker Robert Brooks. [5] Towns was also part-owner of the vessel.
Eschels, a great-great-grandchild of whaling captain Matthias Petersen, [1] was born in Nieblum on the North Frisian island of Föhr, where many seafarers of the early modern era came from. He was the son of a penniless family; his father often sailed "before the mast" for the Dutch East India Company .