A. R. Tucker


Updated on 9 August 2026 | Ship’s log for the bark A. R. Tucker, Saturday, 1 July 1899: “Sometimes Captain feels bad. I suppose he take cold going on deck with underware. I tell him Captain put on your pants and shirt because you may get relaps and you are old man.”

Ship’s log, Wednesday, 19 July 1889: “Buried the Captain.”1


1 Wooden Ships and Iron Men (1994), by Reginald W. Cabral and James Theriault, Municipal Collection, Provincetown History Preservation Project Page 4969.

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