The Watch's Wild Cry: A Voyage Aboard the Whaling Vessel Clara Bell

by Robert F. Weir and Mystic Seaport Museum

At the age of nineteen, Robert F. Weir of West Point, New York, ran away to sea, where he spent the next ten years. Assuming the pseudonym Robert Wallace, Weir sailed aboard the bark Clara Bell out of Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, in 1855 for a voyage to the whaling grounds of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Upon the death of the boatsteerer, Weir was promoted to his position. Recording daily events aboard ship over the course of nearly three...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493081047
• ISBN13: 9781493081042
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 224 Pages