East India Marine Society

Not to be confused with Salem Marine Society.

The East India Marine Society (est. 1799) of Salem, Massachusetts, United States, was "composed of persons who have actually navigated the seas beyond the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn, as masters or supercargoes of vessels belonging to Salem." It functioned as a charitable and educational organization, and maintained a library and museum. It flourished especially in the 1800s–1830s, a heyday of foreign trade.[1]

East India Marine Hall in 2013, now part of the Peabody Essex Museum

In 1910 the society reincorporated as "Trustees of the Salem East India Marine Society."[2]

  1. ^ Walter Muir Whitehill (1949). East India Marine Society and the Peabody Museum of Salem; a Sesquicentennial History. Salem, Mass.: Peabody Museum.
  2. ^ Massachusetts (1912), Private and Special Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, vol. 21