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Cape Verdeans in America: Our
Story from Tchuba, the American
Committee for Cape Verde, 1978.
Introduction
(1.35M)
Early
Contacts (2.02M)
Whaling
(3.15M)
Cape
Verdean American Packet Trade (4.59M)
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New Life in America (3.23M)
Footnotes
and Bibliography (529K))
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Historic Landmark Study 1990
HTML Text Version
PDF Download (376K)
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Historical Park Legislation
1996
PDF Download (120K)
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Cape Verdean Image Library
Traudy Coli has scanned and launched
part of her extensive collection of images on the
internet. If you have particular key words like a
family name or a place like an island in Cape Verde,
you can go to a searchable image file click here... If you would like to view a gallery of
images grouped by place click here...
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The Fishing Wonsons, the
original owners of the Morrissey
In 1894, when the John
F. Wonson company had the Effie M. Morrissey
built, she was one of seventeen schooners sailing
under the John F. Wonson flag. If you would like to
read more about the Wonson Family click here...
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Gloucester Captains and the
Shipbuilder
"Capt. Clayton Morrissey
took his first command when he was but 19 years of
age. He was on the Effie M.
Morrissey, named after his sister, when
his father was taken sick, after the first
baiting. The youthful fisherman assumed command
and astonished the waterfront when he arrived after
two months on the banks with a big fare of salt
fish. He made good from the start and before
many years had passed, ascended to the pinnacle of
the slat fishing fleet of the North
Atlantic...."
You can read about many of the Gloucester Captains on
the Out-of-GloucesterWebsite in transcibed
obituaries:
Clayton
Morrissey
Josh McInnis
Ben Pine
Everett James, Shipbuilder of the Morrissey
in 1894
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The Log of a Record Run
Frederick William Wallace was a Canadian Historian
who documented the fishing industry of the American
and Canadian Maritimes in 1911-1924. Click
here to read his story aboard the Schooner Effie
M. Morrissey, skippered by Capt. Harry Ross, for
a fast run between Portland, Maine and Yarmouth, N.S.
in December 1912. The Morrissey inspired
Wallace's ballad sung in many a fo'c'sl to this day.
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Arctic Exploration Image
Library
Bill Wilcox recently sent some scanned images to us
from his father's voyage on the Morrissey to
Greenland in 1926. This was the first trip for the Effie
M. Morrissey as an Arctic explorer sponsored by
the Publicist George Palmer Putnam sailing under the
auspices of the American Museum of Natural History
and the University of Michigan. Click here to view the
photos.
Laura van der Meulen recently sent
some scanned images of her father, Donald E. Clark,
aboard the Morrissey to Northwest Greenland
in 1938 and 1939 for the New York Zoological Society
and Smithsonian Institution. Apparently Donald, in
his mid-eighties and living in California today,
still talks about his adventures on the Morrissey
with Capt. 'Bob.' Donald was the youngest member of
the crew and served as Radio Telephone Operator. Click here
to see a picture of Donald and get a look at a FCC
(Federal Communications Commission) Radio Telegraph
Operators License.
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The Logbook of Monroe Grey
Barnard
Monroe Barnard came aboard the Schooner Effie M.
Morrissey in 1927 for a voyage into the far
north into Fury and Hecla Straits for the American
Geographical Society, Museum of the American Indian
and the Heye Foundation. This was the second trip
funded by Publisher George Palmer Putnam and written
about in David Putnam's book David Goes to Baffin
Land. Click here to read about
Monroe's exploits aboard the Morrissey as
transcribed from his hand written journal by his son
George Barnard II. If you are curious about some
Innuit (Eskimo) words you can go to Monroe's dictionary
pages in his log. You can find David's book in
your local library to read about the trip from his
perspective....
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The Logbook of John P.
Pitcairn
John P. Pitcairn came aboard the Schooner Effie
M. Morrissey in 1940 as a teenager for a voyage
into the far north for the Smithsonian Institution,
Vasser College and the U.S. Navy Department. Little
did he know they would take the ship farther north
than any sailing vessel had been! Click
here to read about John's exploits aboard the Morrissey
for a trip into into Davis Straits and beyond
along the West Coast of Greenland and back along
Ellesmere Island, Baffin Island and the Labrador.
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The Story of Captain Alexandre
Fortes
Alexandre Fortes came aboard Schooner Ernestina as
captain for the 1960-'61 voyages across the Atlantic
between Providence, RI and the Cape Verde Islands. To
read a story about his life written by two of his
grandchildren click here....
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The Logbook of Ernestina 1954
and 1955
Click here
to explore three transatlantic voyages in detail....
Thanks to a grant from the Island Foundation, Gil
Pires translated and transcribed this logbook
recording three trans-Atlantic voyages.