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American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database

  • Source(s) for Voyage of Britannia (Brig)

    1792, - 1793, Aug. Sailing from Nantucket, MA to . Sent home Sperm, 550 Whale, Bone

    • Works Progress Administration. Whaling Masters: Voyages 1731-1925. New Bedford, MA: Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1938. Annotated copy located at the New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.
    • Starbuck, Alexander. History of the American Whale Fishery from its Earliest Inception to the Year 1876. 1876. Reprinted Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1989.
    • Banks, Charles Edward, M.D. The History of Martha's Vineyard. Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, 1966.
    • Townsend, James. Journal of a voyage on the Ship Atlas, 1825-1826. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.