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{{Short description|Charitable organization}}The '''Boston Marine Society''' (established 1742) is a charitable organization in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], formed "to 'make navigation more safe' and to relieve members and their families in poverty or other 'adverse accidents in life.'"<ref>1754 charter, quoted in: {{cite web |url=http://www.bostonmarinesociety.org/index2.html |title=Boston Marine Society |accessdate=September 10, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090506001155/http://bostonmarinesociety.org/index2.html |archive-date=May 6, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Membership generally consists of current and former ship captains. The society provides financial support to members and their families in times of need; and also actively advises on maritime navigational safety such as the placement of [[lighthouse]]s and [[buoy]]s, and selection of [[Boston Harbor]] [[Maritime pilot|pilots]].
[[Image:Boston harbor and East Boston from State St. block, by Soule, John P., 1827-1904 cropped.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Boston Harbor, 19th c.]]

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The '''Boston Marine Society''' (est. 1742) is a charitable organization in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], formed "to 'make navigation more safe' and to relieve members and their families in poverty or other 'adverse accidents in life.'"<ref>1754 charter, quoted in: http://www.bostonmarinesociety.org/index2.html</ref> Membership generally consists of current and former ship captains. The society provides financial support to members and their families in times of need; and also actively advises on maritime navigational safety such as the placement of [[lighthouse]]s and [[buoy]]s, and selection of [[Boston Harbor]] [[Maritime pilot|pilots]].


==Brief history==
==Brief history==


The society first formed as a fellowship in 1742, and officially incorporated in 1754. Founders included William Starkey, Edward Cahill, Isaac Freeman, Richard Humphreys, Edward Freyer, Moses Bennet, Jonathan Clarke, John Cullum, Joseph Prince, and Abraham Remmick.<ref>Nathaniel Spooner. [http://books.google.com/books?id=bespAAAAYAAJ Gleanings from the records of the Boston Marine Society]: through its first century, 1742 to 1842. The Society, 1879; p.4.</ref>
The society first formed as a fellowship in 1742, and officially incorporated in 1754. Founders included William Starkey, Edward Cahill, Isaac Freeman, Richard Humphreys, Edward Freyer, Moses Bennet, Jonathan Clarke, John Cullum, Joseph Prince, and Abraham Remmick.<ref>{{citation |author=Nathaniel Spooner |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bespAAAAYAAJ |title=Gleanings from the Records of the Boston Marine Society: through its First Century, 1742 to 1842 |publisher= Boston Marine Society |year= 1879 }}</ref> In its first century the society conducted meetings at the [[Concert Hall (Boston, Massachusetts)|Concert Hall]], [[Bunch-of-Grapes]] tavern, and the Sun Tavern. In 1851 it kept an office on Commercial Street<ref>{{cite book |title=Dearborn's Reminiscences of Boston |url=https://archive.org/details/dearbornsremini00deargoog |author=Nathaniel Dearborn |author-link=Nathaniel Dearborn |year=1851 }}</ref> and later in the [[Merchants Exchange (Boston)|Merchants Exchange]]. Since the 1980s it has operated from offices in the [[Boston Navy Yard]].


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According to maritime historian [[Samuel Eliot Morison]], the society's meetings "were common ground where all Bostonians interested in seaborne commerce met. The secretary describes it in 1811 as 'composed of upwards of 100 former shipmasters who have retired from sea with adequate fortunes, many of whom are largely interested in the insurance offices and as underwriters, and about 50 of the most respectable merchants and shipowners and gentlemen of the highest stations in the commonwealth. The rest of the Society is composed of the more active and younger mariners who still follow the seas as a professional business.' These last were the men who made the name of Boston famous from Archangel to Smyrna, and east by west to the River Plate and Calcutta."<ref name=morison1922>{{cite book |author=Samuel Eliot Morison |author-link=Samuel Eliot Morison |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hp0TAAAAYAAJ |title=Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860 |publisher= Houghton Mifflin Company |year= 1922 }}</ref>
In the first century of the society's history the group met at various venues in town, such as the [[Concert Hall (Boston, Massachusetts)|Concert Hall]], [[Bunch-of-Grapes]] tavern, and the Sun Tavern. In 1851 the society conducted its business from quarters on Commercial Street;<ref>Dearborn's reminiscences of Boston.</ref> and later from rooms in the [[Merchants Exchange (Boston, Massachusetts)|Merchants Exchange]]. Since the 1980s the society has operated from offices in the [[Boston Navy Yard]].

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According to maritime historian [[Samuel Eliot Morison]], the society's meetings "were common ground where all Bostonians interested in seaborne commerce met. The secretary describes it in 1811 as 'composed of upwards of 100 former shipmasters who have retired from sea with adequate fortunes, many of whom are largely interested in the insurance offices and as underwriters, and about 50 of the most respectable merchants and shipowners and gentlemen of the highest stations in the commonwealth. The rest of the Society is composed of the more active and younger mariners who still follow the seas as a professional business.' These last were the men who made the name of Boston famous from Archangel to Smyrna, and east by west to the River Plate and Calcutta."<ref>Samuel Eliot Morison. [http://books.google.com/books?id=hp0TAAAAYAAJ The maritime history of Massachusetts, 1783-1860]. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922; p.132.</ref>


===Navigation safety===
===Navigation safety===


[[Image:NixesMate.JPG|right|thumb|200px|Nixes Mate]]
[[Image:NixesMate.JPG|right|thumb|Nixes Mate]]
[[Image:Boston Waterfront c1906 LOC 09012.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Boston Harbor, ca.1906]]


The society has borne responsibility for safe pilotage in the [[Boston Harbor]] since the 18th century. "Beginning in 1791 and continuing through the present, the society through its trustees is vested with the authority to appoint Pilot Commissioners, who in turn appoint Boston Harbor pilots."<ref>Boston Marine Society brochure. 1982.</ref> It has also published guides such as the 1832 ''Rules and regulations for the pilotage of the harbor of Boston.''<ref>Additional rules and regulations for the pilotage of the harbor of Boston. Approved by the governor, with advice of Council, July 5, 1832. Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, state printers, nos. 1 and 4 Exchange Street, 1832. Approving rules and regulations adopted by the trustees of the Boston Marine Society at their meeting on March 12, 1832.</ref>
The society has borne responsibility for safe pilotage in the Boston Harbor since the 18th century. "Beginning in 1791 and continuing through the present, the society through its trustees is vested with the authority to appoint Pilot Commissioners, who in turn appoint Boston Harbor pilots."<ref name=brochure>{{citation |title=(Brochure) |publisher=Boston Marine Society |year= 1982 }}</ref> It has also published guides such as the 1832 ''Rules and Regulations for the Pilotage of the Harbor of Boston.''<ref>{{citation |title=Additional Rules and Regulations for the Pilotage of the Harbor of Boston |quote= Approved by the governor, with advice of Council, July 5, 1832 |location= Boston |publisher= Dutton and Wentworth |year= 1832 }}</ref>


Along with others, the society caused the creation of the [[Cape Cod Highland Light]] in 1797.<ref>Morison. Maritime history of Massachusetts; p.162.</ref> In 1805, the society built the current granite base of the [[beacon]] on [[Nixes Mate]] in Boston Harbor.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=AuAWAAAAYAAJ King's handbook of Boston Harbor]. M. King, 1882.</ref> The society also conducted numerous studies, including one that led to the building of [[Long Island Head Light]] in 1819.<ref>{{cite uscghist|MA}}</ref>
Along with others, the society caused the creation of the [[Highland Light|Cape Cod Light]] in 1797.<ref name=morison1922 /> In 1805 the society built the current granite base of the [[beacon]] on [[Nixes Mate]] in Boston Harbor.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/kingshandbookbo00copegoog |title=King's Handbook of Boston Harbor |publisher= [[Moses King]] |year= 1882 }}</ref> The society also produced studies including one that led to the building of [[Long Island Head Light]] in 1819.<ref>{{cite uscghist|MA}}</ref>


Among the society's many accomplishments in the area of navigation safety are the publication in 1768 of ''Directions for sailing in and out of Plymouth Harbour;''<ref>Directions for sailing in and out of Plymouth Harbour; taken by Moses Bennet, William Rhodes, Thomas Allen, and Nathaniel Green, being a committee of the Marine Society of Boston, appointed for this survey, by the desire of a committee of the General Court of the Massachusetts-Bay, appointed to build a light-house on the Gurnet, near Plymouth-Harbour, in said province, in July 1768. Boston: 1768.</ref> which was produced in connection with the building of [[Plymouth Light]] in that year; the production in 1790 of charts of the coast of America from Cape Breton to the entrance of the Gulf of Mexico, in collaboration with Osgood Carleton;<ref>[Charts of the coast of America from Cape Breton to the entrance of the gulf of Mexico]. Boston : Published & sold by Matthew Clark, 1790. Each chart certified and signed in manuscript by Osgood Carleton on behalf of the Boston Marine Society.</ref> and the 1797 publication of ''Directions for sailing by Cape-Cod light-house.''<ref>Directions for sailing by Cape-Cod light-house. Boston : Published by the Boston Marine Society, for the benefit of their sea-faring brethren, 1797.</ref>
Among the society's many accomplishments in the area of navigation safety are the publication in 1768 of ''Directions for Sailing in and out of Plymouth Harbour''<ref>{{citation |title=Directions for sailing in and out of Plymouth Harbour |quote =Taken by Moses Bennet, William Rhodes, Thomas Allen, and Nathaniel Green, being a committee of the Marine Society of Boston, appointed for this survey, by the desire of a committee of the General Court of the Massachusetts-Bay, appointed to build a light-house on the Gurnet, near Plymouth-Harbour, in said province, in July 1768 |location= Boston |year= 1768 }}</ref> (issued in connection with the building of [[Plymouth Light]] in that year); the production in 1790 of charts of the coast of North America;<ref>{{citation |title=Charts of the Coast of America from Cape Breton to the Entrance of the Gulf of Mexico |location= Boston |publisher= Matthew Clark |year= 1790 |quote= Each chart certified and signed in manuscript by Osgood Carleton on behalf of the Boston Marine Society }}</ref> and the 1797 publication of ''Directions for Sailing by Cape-Cod Light-House.''<ref>{{citation |title=Directions for Sailing by Cape-Cod Light-House |location= Boston |publisher= Boston Marine Society, for the benefit of their sea-faring brethren |year= 1797 }}</ref>


===Other activities===
===Other activities===


In addition to safety, the society has devoted itself to collection and distribution of funds to aid members and their families in times of financial need.
In addition to maritime safety, the society has devoted itself to collection and distribution of funds to aid members and their families in times of financial need.


[[Image:USS Enterprise (1874) at the New York Navy Yard.jpg|thumb|left|200px|USS Enterprise]]
[[Image:USS Enterprise (1874) at the New York Navy Yard.jpg|thumb|left|USS Enterprise]]


The society has also hosted a number of lectures. In the 19th century, speakers included John Pickering on "telegraphic language" (1833);<ref>John Pickering. [http://books.google.com/books?id=zWQpAAAAYAAJ A lecture on telegraphic language], delivered before the Boston Marine Society, 5 February 1833. Hilliard, Gray, and Co., 1833.</ref> and [[Robert Bennet Forbes]] (1854).<ref>R B Forbe. An appeal to merchants and ship owners on the subject of seamen. A lecture delivered at the request of the Boston marine society, March 7, 1854. Boston, Sleeper & Rogers, 1854.</ref>
The society has also hosted a number of lectures. In the 19th century speakers included John Pickering (on "telegraphic language")<ref>{{citation |author=John Pickering |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zWQpAAAAYAAJ |title=Lecture on Telegraphic Language, delivered before the Boston Marine Society, 5 February 1833 |publisher= Hilliard, Gray, and Co. |year= 1833 }}</ref> and [[Robert Bennet Forbes]].<ref>{{citation |author=R.B. Forbes |title= Appeal to Merchants and Ship Owners on the Subject of Seamen; a lecture delivered at the request of the Boston Marine Society, March 7, 1854 |location= Boston |publisher= Sleeper & Rogers |year= 1854 }}</ref>


In 1893 the society began supervising "the operation of school ships "[[USS Enterprise (1874)|Enterprise]]" (1892-1909) and her successor "[[USS Nantucket (IX-18)|Nantucket]]" (1909-1917, 1921-1940)," affiliated with the [[Massachusetts Maritime Academy|Massachusetts Nautical Training School]].<ref>Boston Marine Society brochure. 1982.</ref>
In 1893 the society began supervising "the operation of school ships ''[[USS Enterprise (1874)|Enterprise]]'' (1892-1909) and her successor ''[[USS Nantucket (IX-18)|Nantucket]]'' (1909-1917, 1921-1940)," affiliated with the [[Massachusetts Maritime Academy|Massachusetts Nautical Training School]].<ref name=brochure />


As a focal point for seafaring in general, numerous members have donated various items to the society—model ships; navigation instruments such as telescopes; paintings; [[scrimshaw]]; travel souvenirs; and so on. Visitors to the society's present-day quarters in [[Charlestown, Boston|Charlestown]] may view some of these objects on display.
As a focal point for seafaring in general the society has stewarded donations of model ships, telescopes, paintings, [[scrimshaw]], and travel souvenirs. Visitors to the society's present-day quarters in [[Charlestown, Boston|Charlestown]] may view some of these objects on display.


===Members and officers===
===Members and officers===


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Members in the 18th century included William Furness, Daniel Malcom,<ref>{{citation |author=Benjamin L. Carp |title= Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution |publisher= Oxford University Press |year= 2007 }}</ref> [[John Foster Williams]],<ref name=brochure /> [[James Magee (sea captain)|James Magee]];<ref>{{cite journal |last=Lee |first=Henry |title=The Magee Family and the Origins of the China Trade |journal=Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society |volume=81 |date=1969 |pages=104–109 |jstor= 25080670}}</ref> 18th-century presidents included Thomas Dennie and [[Mungo Mackay]]. Among the members in the 19th century: J.D. Farrell,<ref name=brochure /> F.W. Macondray,<ref name=brochure /> and Daniel McLaughlin.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ship Captains in the Port of San Francisco |url=http://www.maritimeheritage.org/captains/mclaughlinDaniel.html |work=Maritime Heritage Project |editor=D. Blethen Adams Levy |location=San Francisco |accessdate= September 10, 2009 }}</ref> In the heyday of the [[clipper|clipper ship]] "many were captained or owned by such society members as Bacon, Eldridge, Emmons, Forbes, [[William T. Glidden|Glidden]], Howes, Lodge, Ropes, Upton, Wales, Watkins and Weld."<ref name=brochure /> Some of the 19th-century presidents were Jonathan Chapman, Eben Davis,<ref>{{citation |title=Boston Marine Society |work= Boston Daily Globe |date= November 7, 1874 |page=8 }}</ref> Charles Emery,<ref name=dine1887>{{citation |title=Boston Marine Society meet; Many Commanders of the 'Noble East-Indiamen.' Dine at the Quincy |work= Boston Daily Globe |date= November 10, 1887 |page=3 }}</ref> Luther Fisk, Robert Bennett Forbes,<ref>{{cite web |author=Boston Marine Society |title=About |url=http://www.bostonmarinesociety.org/about/index.html }}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Honors to Captain Forbes; His Sixtieth Anniversary of Membership in the Boston Marine Society |work= Boston Daily Globe |date= December 6, 1887 |page=4 }}</ref> William Humphrey,<ref>{{citation |title=Opposed to a Bridge; Boston Marine Society in Annual Meeting Appoints a Committee to Say so --New Officers |work= Boston Daily Globe |date= November 11, 1891 |page=5 }}</ref> James P. Martin,<ref name=dine1887 /> [[William F. Sturgis]], and Israel Whitney. Members and officers in recent years include [[William A. Baker]], [[Barry Clifford]], [[William M. Fowler, Jr.]], and Soren Willensen.<ref>{{citation |title=Boston Marine Society Names New President |work= New York Times |date= November 23, 1958 |page=S14 }}</ref>
Members in the 18th century included William Furness; Daniel Malcom;<ref>Benjamin L. Carp. Rebels rising: cities and the American Revolution. Oxford University Press US, 2007.</ref> and [[John Foster Williams]]<ref>Boston Marine Society brochure. 1982.</ref> Some 18th-century presidents were Thomas Dennie; and [[Mungo Mackay]].

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Among the many members in the 19th century: J.D. Farrell;<ref>Boston Marine Society brochure. 1982.</ref> F.W. Macondray;<ref>Boston Marine Society brochure. 1982.</ref> and Daniel McLaughlin.<ref>http://www.maritimeheritage.org/captains/mclaughlinDaniel.html</ref> In the heyday of the [[clipper|clipper ship]], "many were captained or owned by such society members as Bacon, Eldridge, Emmons, Forbes, Glidden, Howes, Lodge, Ropes, Upton, Wales, Watkins and Weld."<ref>Boston Marine Society brochure. 1982.</ref> Some of the 19th-century presidents were Jonathan Chapman; Eben Davis;<ref>Boston Marine Society. Boston Daily Globe, Nov 7, 1874. p.8.</ref> Charles Emery;<ref>Boston Marine Society meet; Many Commanders of the "Noble East-Indiamen." Dine at the Quincy. Boston Daily Globe, Nov 10, 1887. p.3.</ref> Luther Fisk; Robert Bennett Forbes;<ref>http://www.bostonmarinesociety.org/about/index.html</ref><ref>Honors to Captain Forbes; His Sixtieth Anniversary of Membership in the Boston Marine Society. Boston Daily Globe, Dec 6, 1887. p.4.</ref> William Humphrey;<ref>Opposed to a bridge; Boston Marine Society in Annual Meeting Appoints a Committee to Say so --New Officers. Boston Daily Globe, Nov 11, 1891. p.5.</ref> James P. Martin;<ref>Boston Marine Society meet; Many Commanders of the "Noble East-Indiamen." Dine at the Quincy. Boston Daily Globe, Nov 10, 1887. p.3.</ref> [[William F. Sturgis]]; and Israel Whitney.

Members and officers in recent years include [[William A. Baker]]; [[Barry Clifford]]; [[William M. Fowler, Jr.]]; and Soren Willensen.<ref>Boston Marine Society Names New President. New York Times, Nov 23, 1958. p.S14.</ref>


==References==
==References==
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== Further reading ==
== Further reading ==
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* {{citation |title=Pleasant Little Breeze; Annual Meeting and Election of Officers of the Boston Marine Society Held Yesterday |work= Boston Daily Globe |date= November 15, 1893 |page=8 }}
* Nathaniel Spooner. [http://books.google.com/books?id=bespAAAAYAAJ Gleanings from the records of the Boston Marine Society]: through its first century, 1742 to 1842. The Society, 1879.
* {{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tTIXAAAAYAAJ |title=Manual of the Constitution and By-Laws of the Boston Marine Society ... with a Brief History of the Society |publisher= Rockwell and Churchill |year= 1896 }}
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* Pleasant little breeze; Annual Meeting and Election of Officers of the Boston Marine Society Held Yesterday. Boston Daily Globe, Nov 15, 1893. p.&nbsp;8.
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* {{citation |author=William A. Baker |title= History of the Boston Marine Society, 1742-1967 |location= Boston |year= 1968 |oclc= 2228754 }}
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=tTIXAAAAYAAJ Manual of the constitution and by-laws of the Boston Marine Society], began June 1, 1742, incorporated February 2, 1754: Together with a brief history of the society ... its condition April 1, 1896, lists of members and other statistical information. Rockwell and Churchill, 1896.
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* William A. Baker. A History of the Boston Marine Society, 1742-1967. Boston, 1968.


== External links ==
== External links ==
* http://www.bostonmarinesociety.org Official website
* {{Official website|http://www.bostonmarinesociety.org}}
* http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/node/486 Kiribati spearhead, given by the society to Harvard's Peabody Museum
* Harvard University. [http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/node/486 Kiribati spearhead], given by the society to Harvard's Peabody Museum
* http://www.flickr.com/photos/macie_tx/3512195750 Photo of headquarters in Charlestown, MA
* Flickr. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/macie_tx/3512195750 Photo of headquarters] in Charlestown, MA

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The Boston Marine Society (established 1742) is a charitable organization in Boston, Massachusetts, formed "to 'make navigation more safe' and to relieve members and their families in poverty or other 'adverse accidents in life.'"[1] Membership generally consists of current and former ship captains. The society provides financial support to members and their families in times of need; and also actively advises on maritime navigational safety such as the placement of lighthouses and buoys, and selection of Boston Harbor pilots.

Brief history[edit]

The society first formed as a fellowship in 1742, and officially incorporated in 1754. Founders included William Starkey, Edward Cahill, Isaac Freeman, Richard Humphreys, Edward Freyer, Moses Bennet, Jonathan Clarke, John Cullum, Joseph Prince, and Abraham Remmick.[2] In its first century the society conducted meetings at the Concert Hall, Bunch-of-Grapes tavern, and the Sun Tavern. In 1851 it kept an office on Commercial Street[3] and later in the Merchants Exchange. Since the 1980s it has operated from offices in the Boston Navy Yard.

According to maritime historian Samuel Eliot Morison, the society's meetings "were common ground where all Bostonians interested in seaborne commerce met. The secretary describes it in 1811 as 'composed of upwards of 100 former shipmasters who have retired from sea with adequate fortunes, many of whom are largely interested in the insurance offices and as underwriters, and about 50 of the most respectable merchants and shipowners and gentlemen of the highest stations in the commonwealth. The rest of the Society is composed of the more active and younger mariners who still follow the seas as a professional business.' These last were the men who made the name of Boston famous from Archangel to Smyrna, and east by west to the River Plate and Calcutta."[4]

Navigation safety[edit]

Nixes Mate

The society has borne responsibility for safe pilotage in the Boston Harbor since the 18th century. "Beginning in 1791 and continuing through the present, the society through its trustees is vested with the authority to appoint Pilot Commissioners, who in turn appoint Boston Harbor pilots."[5] It has also published guides such as the 1832 Rules and Regulations for the Pilotage of the Harbor of Boston.[6]

Along with others, the society caused the creation of the Cape Cod Light in 1797.[4] In 1805 the society built the current granite base of the beacon on Nixes Mate in Boston Harbor.[7] The society also produced studies including one that led to the building of Long Island Head Light in 1819.[8]

Among the society's many accomplishments in the area of navigation safety are the publication in 1768 of Directions for Sailing in and out of Plymouth Harbour[9] (issued in connection with the building of Plymouth Light in that year); the production in 1790 of charts of the coast of North America;[10] and the 1797 publication of Directions for Sailing by Cape-Cod Light-House.[11]

Other activities[edit]

In addition to maritime safety, the society has devoted itself to collection and distribution of funds to aid members and their families in times of financial need.

USS Enterprise

The society has also hosted a number of lectures. In the 19th century speakers included John Pickering (on "telegraphic language")[12] and Robert Bennet Forbes.[13]

In 1893 the society began supervising "the operation of school ships Enterprise (1892-1909) and her successor Nantucket (1909-1917, 1921-1940)," affiliated with the Massachusetts Nautical Training School.[5]

As a focal point for seafaring in general the society has stewarded donations of model ships, telescopes, paintings, scrimshaw, and travel souvenirs. Visitors to the society's present-day quarters in Charlestown may view some of these objects on display.

Members and officers[edit]

Members in the 18th century included William Furness, Daniel Malcom,[14] John Foster Williams,[5] James Magee;[15] 18th-century presidents included Thomas Dennie and Mungo Mackay. Among the members in the 19th century: J.D. Farrell,[5] F.W. Macondray,[5] and Daniel McLaughlin.[16] In the heyday of the clipper ship "many were captained or owned by such society members as Bacon, Eldridge, Emmons, Forbes, Glidden, Howes, Lodge, Ropes, Upton, Wales, Watkins and Weld."[5] Some of the 19th-century presidents were Jonathan Chapman, Eben Davis,[17] Charles Emery,[18] Luther Fisk, Robert Bennett Forbes,[19][20] William Humphrey,[21] James P. Martin,[18] William F. Sturgis, and Israel Whitney. Members and officers in recent years include William A. Baker, Barry Clifford, William M. Fowler, Jr., and Soren Willensen.[22]

References[edit]

  1. ^ 1754 charter, quoted in: "Boston Marine Society". Archived from the original on May 6, 2009. Retrieved September 10, 2009.
  2. ^ Nathaniel Spooner (1879), Gleanings from the Records of the Boston Marine Society: through its First Century, 1742 to 1842, Boston Marine Society
  3. ^ Nathaniel Dearborn (1851). Dearborn's Reminiscences of Boston.
  4. ^ a b Samuel Eliot Morison (1922). Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860. Houghton Mifflin Company.
  5. ^ a b c d e f (Brochure), Boston Marine Society, 1982
  6. ^ Additional Rules and Regulations for the Pilotage of the Harbor of Boston, Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1832, Approved by the governor, with advice of Council, July 5, 1832
  7. ^ King's Handbook of Boston Harbor. Moses King. 1882.
  8. ^ "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Massachusetts". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.
  9. ^ Directions for sailing in and out of Plymouth Harbour, Boston, 1768, Taken by Moses Bennet, William Rhodes, Thomas Allen, and Nathaniel Green, being a committee of the Marine Society of Boston, appointed for this survey, by the desire of a committee of the General Court of the Massachusetts-Bay, appointed to build a light-house on the Gurnet, near Plymouth-Harbour, in said province, in July 1768
  10. ^ Charts of the Coast of America from Cape Breton to the Entrance of the Gulf of Mexico, Boston: Matthew Clark, 1790, Each chart certified and signed in manuscript by Osgood Carleton on behalf of the Boston Marine Society
  11. ^ Directions for Sailing by Cape-Cod Light-House, Boston: Boston Marine Society, for the benefit of their sea-faring brethren, 1797
  12. ^ John Pickering (1833), Lecture on Telegraphic Language, delivered before the Boston Marine Society, 5 February 1833, Hilliard, Gray, and Co.
  13. ^ R.B. Forbes (1854), Appeal to Merchants and Ship Owners on the Subject of Seamen; a lecture delivered at the request of the Boston Marine Society, March 7, 1854, Boston: Sleeper & Rogers
  14. ^ Benjamin L. Carp (2007), Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution, Oxford University Press
  15. ^ Lee, Henry (1969). "The Magee Family and the Origins of the China Trade". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 81: 104–109. JSTOR 25080670.
  16. ^ D. Blethen Adams Levy (ed.). "Ship Captains in the Port of San Francisco". Maritime Heritage Project. San Francisco. Retrieved September 10, 2009.
  17. ^ "Boston Marine Society", Boston Daily Globe, p. 8, November 7, 1874
  18. ^ a b "Boston Marine Society meet; Many Commanders of the 'Noble East-Indiamen.' Dine at the Quincy", Boston Daily Globe, p. 3, November 10, 1887
  19. ^ Boston Marine Society. "About".
  20. ^ "Honors to Captain Forbes; His Sixtieth Anniversary of Membership in the Boston Marine Society", Boston Daily Globe, p. 4, December 6, 1887
  21. ^ "Opposed to a Bridge; Boston Marine Society in Annual Meeting Appoints a Committee to Say so --New Officers", Boston Daily Globe, p. 5, November 11, 1891
  22. ^ "Boston Marine Society Names New President", New York Times, p. S14, November 23, 1958

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