whaling – My Waters Family

From Thomas Waters Jr. to his sister Mary Waters (November 12, 1841)

November 12, 1841Letters

[Thomas Waters to his sister Mary] [from a transcript] V 12th Nov. 1841. Barque Fawn South Seas Dear Sister These few lines I write to you in haste, anxious to…

From Thomas Waters Jr. to his mother Elizabeth Waters (November 11, 1842)

November 11, 1842Letters

[Thomas Waters to his mother, Mrs Elizabeth Waters] Addressed to Mrs Waters, King St, Woolwich, Kent, England VII Barque Fawn Woahoo [Oahu]. Nov.r llth/1842 My Dear Mother…

Voyage of Barque Fawn, 1840

April 4, 2022Information Pieces

The information below comes from the records of the New Bedford Whaling Museum. It provides information specific to the 1840 voyage of the whaling ship Barque Fawn. Thomas Waters Jr.…

Building Plans for Barque Fawn

February 28, 2023Source Documents

Blueprints for the design of Barque Fawn, the whaling ship that Thomas Waters Jr. apprenticed on in 1840. A former Navy ship, it was modified from this Cormorant class 16-gun…

Thomas Waters Jr. Sketch of Barque Fawn (1840)

May 22, 2023Artifacts, Letters, Source Documents

Thomas wrote this letter to his mother and father, Thomas Sr & Elizabeth Waters, shortly after he became a teenaged apprentice on the whaling ship Barque Fawn. You can faintly…