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Albert (Ketch) Logbook in the Dartmouth College Library

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Descriptive Summary
	Title:	ALBERT (KETCH) LOGBOOK in the Dartmouth College Library, 1981
	Dates:	1981
	ID:	STEM 3

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Administrative Information

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INTRODUCTION

Two logbooks provide a record of the auxiliary ketch Albert on two separate voyages from Petershead, Scotland to Baffin Island. Under the command of Captain Henry Toke Munn, the Albert was owned by the Arctic Gold Exploration Syndicate.

The log kept by the engineer John Mackindoe is an account of a voyage from July 6, 1914 to October 27, 1914, to Albert Harbour, Baffin Island. Mackindoe included comments on the functioning of the engines and some calculations, as well as a day to day account of the journey. The log is 67 pages, with some confusion in dates and pagination. The original of this photocopy is in the Scott Polar Research Institute.

The second log, of a voyage from June 10 to September 10, 1920, was kept by an engineer Dines. This log is a personal narrative of events on land and aboard ship, and is particularly interesting for its detail and style. This copy of 41 pages is a typescript of the original.

The logbooks of the Albert are contained in one Hollinger box and are housed in the Vilhjalmur Stefansson Collection on the Polar Regions.