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<div>Name of Vessel: Sarah Parker</div><div>Type of Vessel:</div><div>Dates of Log: June 24, 1852–May 10, 1855</div><div>Keeper: Charlotte Coffin Gardner</div><div>Purpose of Voyage: Trading</div><div>Port of Origin: Nantucket, Mass.</div><div>Master: William B. Gardner</div><div>Range of Voyage: Chile; San Francisco, Calif.; Northwest Coast Mentions many Nantucket ships and captains.</div><div><br></div><div>TRANSCRIPT, Original in Papers of William Bunker Gardner, Huntington Library Manuscripts Dept., San Marino, CA.</div><div><br></div><div>William B. Gardner (1811-1856), New England shipmaster, commanded whaling ships which made voyages to the Pacific Coast from 1839-1850. In 1852 he became master of the ship "Sarah Parker" and sailed from New Bedford, Mass., to the Pacific Coast. Gardner's wife, Charlotte Coffin Gardner, and their son accompanied him on this journey, and another son was born in San Francisco before their return to Nantucket in 1855.</div>
<br>Subjects: Sailors; Seafaring life; Trade; Voyages and travels; Logbooks</div>
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Gardner, Charlotte Coffin</div>
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