Cenotaph in Seamen's Bethel, New Bedford, MA

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Black and white photograph of cenotaph in Seamen's Bethel, New Bedford, MA. Reads: "In Memory of / CAPT. WM. SWAIN, / Associate / Master of the CHRISTOPHER / MITCHELL of Nantucket. / This worthy man / after fastning to a whale, / was carried overboard by / the line, and drowned / May 19th 1844, / in the 49th Year of his age. / Be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye / think no, the Son of Man cometh."