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American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database

  • Source(s) for Voyage of Highland Mary (Brig)

    1867, Jul - 1872, . Sailing from Sag Harbor, NY to Atlantic. Sent home 180 Sperm, 400 Whale, 2200 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.
    • 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.
    • Adams, James Truslow. History of the Town of Southampton (East End of Canoe Place). Bridgehampton, NY: Hampton Press, 1918.
    • West, Ellsworth Luce as told to Eleanor Ransom Mayhew. Captain's Papers: A Log of Whaling and Other Sea Experiences. Barre, MA: Barre Publishers, 1965.
    • Manuscripts Index. Library Reading Room, Peabody Essex Museum Library, Salem, MA. Card File.
    • Auction Catalog. Nantucket, MA: Raphael Osana Auctions, Inc., August 16, 1997.