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Ship Electric Spark at the Chincha Islands
Document Type: Photo/Image
Geographic Location: Chincha Islands, Peru
Date: 1865
Creator: unknown
ID Number: Electric_Spark_Chincha
Keywords: Life at Sea, Women at Sea, Children at Sea, PMM0002
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Description:
Photograph taken on board the clipper ship Electric Spark at the Chincha Islands. In this group are four Searsport ship masters with their wives and children: John Pendleton, William Blanchard, Albert Nickels, and Nathan Carver, whose ships were at the Chincha Islands at the time. All of these vessels would have been waiting to load guano, a wait that sometimes took weeks. The 1190 ton Electric Spark was built in Medford, Massachusetts in 1855. Her master, Medford's R.F. D. Candage is second from the left.
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