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Robert Bennet Forbes (September 18, 1804 – November 23, 1889), was an American sea captain, China merchant and ship owner. He was active in ship construction, maritime safety, the opium trade, and charitable activities, including food aid to Ireland, which became known as America's first major disaster relief effort. Opium ships at ...
Guide to the Collection. Collection Summary. Abstract. This collection consists of correspondence, financial records, and diaries kept by Robert Bennet Forbes, ship captain, China Trade merchant, shipbuilder, and philanthropist of Milton and Boston, Massachusetts. Biographical Sketch.
- 1817-1889
- 1817-1967
- Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889
- Robert Bennet Forbes papers
21. Nov. 2018 · Robert Bennet Forbes Courtesy: www.geni.com The second brother, Robert Bennet Forbes, sailed to China as a 13 year-old cabin boy on his uncle Handasyd Perkins’ ship, the Canton Packet , in 1817. A master mariner, and later the inventor of the Forbes rig for sailing ships, he commanded his own vessel in a three-year voyage around ...
Another grandson of John Forbes Robert Bennet Forbes (1804–1889), Partner of Russell & Company, and later associated with Yale University development and endowment. Noted as politicians and activists. Many Forbes family members are influential in local or national politics in France, the US and the Philippines:
Das Captain Robert Bennet Forbes House (ehem. auch American China Trade Museum) ist ein öffentlich zugängliches Museum in Milton im Bundesstaat Massachusetts der Vereinigten Staaten. Es ist seit 1966 als National Historic Landmark im National Register of Historic Places eingetragen.
1813. Birth of John Murray Forbes (JMF) 1815. T.H. Perkins enters opium trade with brother James. 1817. Robert Bennet Forbes goes to sea at age 13. 1825. RBF gets first command and goes on a 3-year voyage around the world.
With remarkable speed and harmony the people of Boston. labored to ready Jamestown for her voyage. There could not have been a better choice for captain than Robert Bennet Forbes. At 43 Forbes was, by his own admission, a bit old to command at sea. He had first gone to sea at age 13 and was in command at 20.
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