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American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database

  • Source(s) for Voyage of American (Ship)

    1842, Jul - 1843, . Sailing from Sag Harbor, NY to Crozetts. Sent home 50 Sperm, 1000 Whale, 6000 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.
    • Ship Registers of the District of Gloucester, Massachusetts 1789-1875. With an introduction by Stephen Willard Phillips. Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1944.
    • Manuscripts Collections Computer File. Edouard A. Stackpole Research Center, Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, MA.
    • Hain, James. "Woods Hole Whaling." Woods Hole Reflections, M. L. Smith, ed. Woods Hole Historical Collection, 1983.
    • Webb, Robert Lloyd. On the Northwest Coast: Commercial Whaling in the Pacific Northwest 1790-1967. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 1988.
    • Ripley, Edward S. Contract with Samuel Osborn & Sons, January 24, 1883. Nicholson Collection, Providence Public Library, Providence, RI. Manuscript.

    Logbooks

    • Privately owned