Title:
Progress: Saga of Westerly-built whaler
Author:
Carol W. Kimball
Subjects:
whaleships
Progress and Charles Phelps
World's Columbian Exposition
Chicago
Progress and Charles Phelps
World's Columbian Exposition
Chicago
Object ID:
Kim03-093
Object Name:
Scrapbook
Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Subcategory:
Documentary Artifact
Publisher:
The Day
Publication Place:
New London, CT
Pubication Date:
02/07/1991
Collection:
Carol W. Kimball
Summary:
Before her appearance at the Columbian Exposition at Chicago, the whaleship Progress began life as Charles Phelps, built at Westerly by Silas Greenman for Stonington whaling agent Charles P. Williams. She made her first voyage under command of Capt. Palmer Hall and would later serve as a coal vessel during the Civil War before being sold to W.C. Brownell of New Bedford who rebuilt her and renamed her Progress. At Blossom Shoals she and Captain Dowden would rescue 226 people. In 1902 she was finally broken up and her figurehead, the likeness of Charles Phelps, was returned to the Greenman family at Westerly. The adventures of the whaleship would fill a book and it is rumored that Dwight Brown of Bradford is writing one.
People:
Phelps, Charles
Williams, Charles P.
Hall, Palmer (Capt.)
Brownell, W. C.
Dowden, (Capt.)
Greenman, Silas
Brown, Dwight
Williams, Charles P.
Hall, Palmer (Capt.)
Brownell, W. C.
Dowden, (Capt.)
Greenman, Silas
Brown, Dwight
Search Terms:
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Westerly
Stonington
World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago
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Civil War
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Blossom Shoals
Progress
Charles Phelps
Westerly
Stonington
World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago
book
Civil War
rescue
Blossom Shoals