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'Canton Packet' - Some Ships of the Clipper Ship Era 0014
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The Canton Packet, bark built for J. & T. H. Perkins of Boston. Quote: Page 9, at the age of thirteen Robert Bennett Forbes went as a cabin boy on the Canton Packet under Captain John King and he was on her for altogether six years, becoming an officer at the age of sixteen.
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2016
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