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American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database

  • Source(s) for Voyage of Delaware (Bark)

    1852, Jul - 1857, May. Sailing from New London, CT to North Pacific. Sent home 0 Sperm, 2866 Whale, 62200 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.
    • Wood, Dennis. "Abstracts of Whaling Voyages, 1831-1873." Microfilm copy from the original manuscript held by the New Bedford Free Public Library, New Bedford, MA, 1981.
    • Colby, Barnard L. For Oil and Buggy Whips. Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., 1990.
    • Barthelmess, Klaus. "Additions to Sherman." 1994. Kendall Collection, New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.Typewritten list.
    • Shoemaker, Elizabeth ed. Ships Logs and Captains' Diaries of Old Cape Cod. n.p.: Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, 1937.
    • Logs/Journals in the Long Island Collection, East Hampton Library, East Hampton, NY.

    Logbooks

    • Kendall Collection, New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, Massachusetts