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American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database

  • Source(s) for Voyage of Admiral Blake (Schr)

    1853, May - 1853, Oct. Sailing from Sippican, MA to Atlantic. Sent home 140 Sperm, 6 Whale, 0 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.
    • Batchelder, Charles F. Whaleship Index. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA, 1960. Card file.
    • Auction Catalog. Nantucket, MA: Raphael Osana Auctions, Inc., August 7, 1999.
    • Ludlow, Elias. Journal of a voyage on an unidentified whaler, 1806-1807. Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, Sag Harbor, NY.