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American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database
Source(s) for Voyage of Gay Head II (Bark)
1877, Aug - 1881, Oct. Sailing from New Bedford, MA to Atlantic. Sent home 1400 Sperm, 380 Whale, 731 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.
- Sherman, Stuart C., comp. Judith M. Downey and Virginia Adams, eds. with Howard Pasternak. Whaling Logbooks and Journals, 1613-1927: An Inventory of Manuscript Records in Public Collections. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, vol. 682. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1986.
- Returns of Whaling Vessels Sailing from American Ports: A Continuation of Alexander Starbuck's "History of the American Whale Fishery" 1876-1928. New Bedford, MA: Old Dartmouth Historical Society, and Whaling Museum, 1959.
- Adams, Thomas R. "Whaling Vessels Their Voyages and their Log Books, Journals and Abstracts &c. A Concordance." Providence, RI, 1994. Draft copy.
- Ludlow, Elias. Journal of a voyage on an unidentified whaler, 1806-1807. Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, Sag Harbor, NY.
Logbooks
- Kendall Collection, New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, Massachusetts
- New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, Massachusetts