Identifier: oldshippingdaysi018stat (find matches)
Title: Old shipping days in Boston
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.) Walton Advertising and Printing Company
Subjects: Shipping Clipper ships
Publisher: Boston, Mass., Printed for the State Street Trust Company
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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d so much in the cause may be able to go home and keep myself warm. SHIPS THAT PLIED BETWEEN BOSTON AND FAYAL From early in the nineteenth century to the end of the eighties, many American-built ships plied between the ports of Boston and Fayal. They were built for Charles W. Dabney (1794-1871), US consul in the Azores 1826-1871, industrialist, who was one of the three Dabneys who for many years held the post of American consul in the Azores. The ships carried a limited number of first class passengers and a considerably larger number of third class,the cargoes consisting of oranges and Island wines, sent often as presents to friends in Boston, and at certain seasons of the year, thousands of barrels of whale oil which the whale-ships deposited at Fayal to be delivered at New Bedford and other American ports. Sometimes these Fayal vessels were sent to Russia, Smyrna, France, or England, but direct communication between Fayal and Boston was never interrupted. Some of the best known ships were the Boston, Swiftsure, Sarah, Harbinger, lo, Hortense, Azor, 37
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Bark "Azor" The most popular of all the Fayal ships. OLD SHIPPING DAYS IN BOSTON Azorean, and Fredonia. Each of these vessels had a character of its own, and all were looked upon by the people of Fayal as being almost human. On one occasion, when the Azor was overdue, anxiety and grief spread over the whole island, and prayers were offered for her safety. This noble bark was the most beloved of all the ships that brought friends, letters, money, and provisions from America. During the Civil War the Azor had many narrow escapes when Captain Semmes of the Alabama was scouring the seas.The Southerner was determined to send her to the bottom, but never succeeded in doing so. The Azor was built in Maine in 1854 and was commanded during most of her long career by Captain Burke. At one time her name was changed to Fredonia. In 1866 she saved many immigrants bound from Liverpool to Boston,and during the famine in the Azores a few years before, Mr. Dabney sent her to Boston at his own expense, where ten thousand bushels of grain were procured through the gen

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