Vessel
O'Cain
O'Cain: 6 recorded visits to the Californias, 1804 to 1806, calling at San Quintín, Trinidad, Big Lagoon (Washington Sound), Humboldt Bay. Flag United States. Every visit cited to its source.
- Flag
- United States
- Recorded span
- 1804 to 1806
- Recorded visits
- 6
- Name as written
- O'Cain (4), O'CAIN, O'Cain (1), O'CAIN (1)
- Anchorages
- San Quintín, Trinidad, Big Lagoon (Washington Sound), Humboldt Bay, San Diego
- Record status
- reviewed
Recorded visits
★ DECLARATION OF DESERTER FROM *O'CAIN* — testimony of 'Negro Anglo-American' Es Brown (sic), deserter from Fragata *O'C
★ FRAGATA *O'CAIN* — departed San Quintín May 26; Captain sent canoes ahead with fishermen visiting the coast; believes
Winship's O'Cain in and near Trinidad Bay 12 days (10-22 June 1806): trade + hunting under the ship's guns; the RAC contract voyage (100 Aleuts, 50 ba
- Published secondary source: Bancroft, HoC II, ch. 2 (pp. 39-40), from the Winship log
'Washington Sound, now Big Lagoon, was discovered, named, and partially explored' — the O'Cain, June 1806 (Bancroft, from the Winship log)
- Published secondary source: Bancroft, HoC II, ch. 2 (pp. 39-40), from the Winship log
HUMBOLDT BAY ENTRY (disputed identification): the tradition holds Winship's O'Cain entered Humboldt Bay June 1806 ('Bay of the Indians')
- Published secondary source: Bancroft, HoC II, ch. 2 (pp. 39-40), from the Winship log
Sources disagree: Bancroft (from the Winship log) locates the June-1806 discovery at Washington Sound = Big Lagoon, NORTH of Trinidad; the Humboldt-Bay identification is the local tradition — settle from the Winship log ('Solid Men of Boston', Bancroft MS)
American whaler 'O'Cain' at San Diego. A frigate from Nantucket (18 guns, 35 crew, Capt. José O'Cain — recognized by art
- Archives of California (BANC MSS C-A), C-A 12, doc 125 (scan n129–n131)
- Bancroft, History of California: Bancroft HoC II narrates this vessel in 1806 (Bodega, San Blas, San Diego, Santa Bárbara, Trinidad)
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