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The voyage of the Jamestown on her errand of mercy
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Details
- Creator
- [by R.B. Forbes]
- Included Title
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- Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Boston : Eastburn Press, 1847
- Physical Details
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- 27, cliv p. : ill. ; 23 cm
- An account of the preparations for and the actual voyage of the U.S.S. Jamestown in March, 1847, that was carrying relief provisions collected from Boston and other New England merchants for the famine-stricken residents of Ireland. Robert Bennet Forbes was appointed by the New England Committee for the Relief of Ireland and Scotland to command this relief mission, and he lent the U.S.S. Jamestown for that purpose.
- Sabin no. 25051.
- Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects
- Jamestown (Ship)
- New England Committee for the Relief of Ireland and Scotland.
- Charities -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
- United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Ireland.
- Ireland -- Foreign economic relations -- United States.
- Famines -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
- Ireland -- History -- 1837-1901.