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American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database

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Vessel #	Vessel Name	Date Built	Place Built	Fate
812	A
791	A. B. Cook			Lost off Point Manglares in June of 1873.
743	A. E. Whyland	1888	Essex, MA	Torpedoed off Teneriffe, 1918
807	A. Houghton	1853	Robbinston, ME	Sold for California, then to US Navy
431	A. J. Ross	1858	Searsport, ME	Lost, Hudson Bay, 1877
808	A. L. Putnam	1863	Essex, MA	Withdr 1869
745	A. M. Nicholson	1863	Essex, MA	Withdr 1869
809	A. M. Simpson
810	A. Nickerson	1845	Essex, MA	Withdr 1852; lost Manatilk Reef, July 16, 1852
20	A. R. Tucker	1851	Dartmouth, MA	Broken up, 1908
811	A. T. Gifford	1883	Essex, MA	Lost in Hudson Bay
45	Abbie Bradford	1860	Scituate, MA	Cond & sold at Santos, Brazil, 1888
793	Abbie H. Brown	1861	Salisbury, MA	Withdr 1869
48	Abbott Lawrence	1849	Duxbury, MA	Withdr for freighting, 1872; sold to New Bedford 1874
22	Abby	1792	Amesbury, MA	Cond & sold at St Johns, N 1881
2658	Abigail
2890	Abigail
813	Abigail	1793	Newport, RI	Broken up at Sag Harbor
1	Abigail	1810	Amesbury, MA	Burned by Shenandoah in the Okhotsk
19	Abraham Barker	1845	Fairhaven, MA	Lost off Cape Navarin, May 1894
15	Abraham H. Howland	1845	New Bedford, MA	Lost at Honolulu, 1852
814	Acasta	1818	Athens, NY	Foundered at sea, September 1840; crew picked up by the Java of Fairhaven.
815	Acasta	1821	Salem, MA	Withdr, went to California, 1850
816	Acorn	1837	Charlestown, MA	Withdr for merchant service, 1863
49	Acors Barns	1866	New London, CT	Aband in Arctic
817	Active			Taken by French 1799, retaken by English privateer, carried into Halifax.
25	Active	1839	Baltimore, MD	Condemned at Yokohama Apr 25, 1874
818	Actor	1845	Waterford, CT	Withdr 1864; lost 1867
52	Acushnet	1804	New Bedford, MA
819	Acushnet	1840	Mattapoisett, MA	Stove by a whale, 1847; lost Aug 16, 1851
820	Ada M. Dyer	1865	Essex, MA	Withdr 1872
742	Ada S. Babson	1888	Boothbay, ME
2889	Adams		Mystic, CT
3	Addison	1816	Philadelphia, PA	Lost at Fayal, freighting, 1875
706	Adelia Chase	1875	Bath, ME	Aband at Brava, CVI, not then whaling
2	Adeline	1825	Newcastle, ME	Sold to Manchester, MA and then foreign
33	Adeline Gibbs	1841	Fairhaven, MA	Wrecked in a hurricane off Bermuda, Aug, 1890
821	Adirondack
822	Admiral Blake	1843	Derby, CT	Broken up 1889
823	Adolphus
824	Adventure
825	Aerial	1849	Waldoboro, ME	Lost at sea, 1859
826	Aeronaut	1822	Amesbury, MA	Lost, 1856
827	Africa
2740	Africa
28	Afton	1846	Eastport, ME	Sold to New York, 1862
795	Agate			Sold to Honolulu, 1859; broken up there 1861
4	Agate	1826	Mattapoisett, MA	Lost Isle of Sal, CVI, Dec 29, 1844
828	Agate	1853	Essex, MA	Condemned in Australia
829	Agenora			Withdrawn for merchant service and then sunk off Bermuda in 1818.
796	Alabama	1846	Medford, MA	Lost off Chatham Islands
831	Alabama Packet	1819	Groton, CT
832	Alaska			Lost Bering Sea, 1883
41	Alaska	1867	Mattapoisett, MA	Lost Cape Nome, June, 1900
833	Albert Clarence	1863	Portsmouth, NH	Withdr, 1870
42	Albion	1815	Haverhill, MA	Sold to NY for merchant service, then foreign
797	Alciope		Bought from Boston, 1842
798	Alcyone	1866	Provincetown, MA	Withdr 1871, returned 1872
799	Alert
834	Alert	1828	Boston, MA	Burned by Alabama, 1862
839	Alexander
840	Alexander
5	Alexander	1821	Chatham, CT	Lost, coast of NZ, Jan 3, 1857
837	Alexander	1830	Portsmouth, NH
838	Alexander	1847	Scituate, MA	Withdr 1870
841	Alexander	1855	New York, NY	ex SS Astoria ex SS Alexander of Russia
800	Alexander	1886	Cambridge, MD	Lost off St Paul’s Island
59	Alexander Barclay	1827	Rochester, MA	Sold to Bremen, 1839
13	Alexander Coffin	1832	Rochester, MA	Wrecked, cond, sold, 1856
835	Alexander Mansfield	1818	Westerly, RI	Condemned at Tahiti, Aug, 1840
836	Alexander Tillinghast
16	Alfred	1845	Baltimore, MD	Sold to Boston for Fayal packet, 1855, to Fairhaven, 1856.Lost, Hurd’s Is, Dec 29, 1856
24	Alfred Gibbs	1851	Bath, ME	Sold to New York, 1873
801	Alfred Tyler/Eureka	1836	Medford, MA	Name changed from Alfred Tyler to Eureka, 1857; sold to Boston, 1861
802	Alibree	1826	Haverhill, MA	Withdr 1849
842	Alice	1830	Newbury, MA
32	Alice Frazier	1841	Richmond, ME	Lost, Okhotsk, Jan 1860
44	Alice Knowles	1878	Weymouth, MA	Lost in a hurricane, Sept, 1917
21	Alice Mandell	1851	Mattapoisett, MA	Lost, China Sea, Mar, 1857
843	Alknomac			Withdr 1871
803	Alleghania	1865	Hingham, MA	Withdr 1871
844	Allegro
804	Alliance
2742	Alliance
54	Alliance	1810	Chatham, CT	Cond at Buenos Ayres, Dec 1825
2743	Alliance	1811	Berkley, MA	Broken up, prob at Newport
2730	Alliance	1884	Astoria, OR
805	Allie B. Dyer	1866	Salisbury, MA	Withdr 1871
845	Alligator			Capt by British 1812, full of sperm oil
806	Almira	1821	Mattapoisett, MA	Lost in the Arctic, 1870
846	Almy	1818	Berkley, MA
36	Alpha	1834	Mattapoisett, MA	Sold and broken up, 1872
848	Altair
849	Altamaha	1836	Mattapoisett, MA	Capt and burned by Alabama
12	Alto	1826	Tiverton, RI	Lost near Falkland Is, 1870
850	Alton	1886	Marshfield, OR
58	Amanda	1826	Lubec, ME	Cond at Mahe, 1834
851	Amaret	1849	Robbinston, ME	Lost in Cumberland Sts, 1860
852	Amawah
854	Amazon
855	Amazon
55	Amazon
2744	Amazon
853	Amazon	1815	Berkley, MA	Sunk at Charleston, 1861, Stone Fleet
856	Amazon	1817	Lyme, CT	Lost, 1840
858	Amelia
857	Amelia	1842	Brookhaven, NY	Withdr, 1861; wrecked and aband, 1863
61	Amelia	1852	Newburyport, MA	Lost, Albrohas Is, 1882
860	America
861	America
862	America
14	America	1818	Duxbury, MA	Sold to New Bedford 1865 to be broken up
6	America	1822	Newbury, MA	Stone Fleet #2
56	America	1823	New Bedford, MA
2745	America	1827	Fairfield, CT	Condemned at Teneriffe, July, 1855
47	America II	1811	Philadelphia, PA	Crushed by ice, Anadir Sea, 1851
865	American	1822	New York, NY	Sunk off Charleston, Stone Fleet
867	American	1827		Condemned at St. Thomas, Aug, 1848
866	American	1842	Portland, ME
863	American Hero		Hudson, NY
868	Ames
8	Amethyst	1823	Boston, MA	Sold to San Francisco, 1860; lost in the Arctic
871	Amphibious	1804	Rochester, MA
872	Amstel	1814	Haverhill, MA
2731	Amy
873	Amy and Polly	1817	Westport, MA
746	Amy M. Sacker	1886	Cambridge, MD
26	Anaconda	1852	Baltimore, MD
60	Anadir		ex US store ship Erie
874	Andes			Condemned, wrecked and burned
703	Andrew Hicks	1867	Fairhaven, MA	Sunk after collision off Virginia Capes, 1917
34	Andrews	1850	New Bedford, MA	Lost, Cumberland Inlet, Nov, 1867
875	Angelia B. Nickerson
737	Ann
882	Ann
883	Ann
51	Ann	1788	Exeter, NH
885	Ann	1823		Cond at St Helena Feb 25, 1858
884	Ann	1827	Rochester, MA	Lost on Timor, 1842
7	Ann Alexander	1805	Dartmouth, MA	Lost, 1851; sunk by a whale
876	Ann Eliza
877	Ann Howard	1821	Ocracoke, NC	Sold foreign, 1842
879	Ann Maria	1810	Philadelphia, PA	Lost off St Paul’s, Aug, 1842
878	Ann Maria	1822	Somerset, MA	Lost, thought wrecked
880	Ann Mary Ann			Sent to California with lumber and lime; sank, SF Bay
881	Ann Parry	1824	Kittery, ME	Sold to Salem, 1848
886	Annawan
887	Annawan	1823	New Bedford, MA	Lost at sea in a gale, Mar, 1839
35	Annawan II	1841	Mattapoisett, MA	Lost near Bermuda, July, 1873
890	Anne	1807	Braintree, MA	Sold for California, 1848
889	Anne Mary
43	Annie Ann		ex British brig Jane	Cond at Mauritius, 1871
46	Ansel Gibbs	1835	Rochester, MA	Lost Marble Is, Hudson’s Bay, Oct 19, 1872
893	Antarctic	1851	Scituate, MA	Aband and burned at Popes Is, NB, 1894
27	Antarctic	1852	New Bedford, MA	Lost near Chatham Is, 1853
29	Antelope	1846	Nobleboro, ME	Lost, Cumberland Inlet, 1866
894	Antoinette
895	Apollo
897	Apphia Maria	1846		Condemnedat Valparaiso, Mar, 1859
898	Aquetnet	1834	Medford, MA	Withdr for merchant service; cond and sold at Panama, 1855
899	Arab	1818	Ipswich, MA	Sold to Boston, 1862
39	Arab	1823	Bath, ME	Condemned, 1871
17	Arabella	1827	Sag Harbor, NY	Lost in the ice near East Cape, 1851
900	Arbella	1825	Bath, ME	Withdr for freighting, 1838
9	Archer	1831	Philadelphia, PA	Stone Fleet #1
901	Archimedes	1811	Falmouth, MA
902	Architect	1855	Thomaston, ME	Withdr at Honolulu, 1859
905	Arctic			Wrecked 5 mi south of Cape Smythe, August 1924
903	Arctic	1850	Mattapoisett, MA	Transferred to Honolulu
906	Ardent	1815	Duxbury, MA	Wrecked at sea, 1823
908	Argo
909	Argonaut	1812	Sag Harbor, NY	Condemned Aug, 1830
910	Arizona	1858	Salisbury, MA	Lost St Helena, Aug, 1878
911	Ark	1818		Broken up, New Bedford, 1822
38	Armadillo	1832	Franklin, ME	Lost at St Eustacia
912	Armata	1811	New York, NY	Lost on a reef near Cape North, Jul 1851.
913	Armida
18	Arnolda	1844	Mattapoisett, MA	Aband, 1894
914	Arthur Clifford
915	Arthur Pickering
750	Arthur V. S. Woodruff	1888	Essex, MA	Lost, Barbados, Apr, 1920
916	Asia
2738	Asia
432	Astoria	1858	Hancock, ME	Condemned, Cape of Good Hope, 1880
918	Athalia			Withdrawn for merchant service.
919	Athenian	1828	Mystic, CT	Lost, Crozettes, 1841
748	Athlete	1905	Essex, MA
920	Atkins Adams	1846	Mattapoisett, MA	Sold to New York, 1863, sold foreign
2736	Atlantic
2867	Atlantic
50	Atlantic
925	Atlantic	1817	Newbury, MA	Lost off New Zealand, June 12, 1839
922	Atlantic	1819	Haddam, CT	Sold to New York and foreign
921	Atlantic	1825	Philadelphia, PA	Lost at Fayal, 1847
923	Atlantic	1836	New York, NY
924	Atlantic	1849	Smithtown, NY
23	Atlantic	1851	New Bedford, MA	Wrecked in San Francisco, Dec 17, 1886
927	Atlas			Sold 1823.
926	Atlas	1793	New York, NY	Condemned, Isle de France, Sept, 1836
930	Atlas	1815	Providence, RI	Lost, Two People’s Bay, Aug, 1842
929	Atlas	1826	Troy (Fall River), MA	Withdr for trading at NZ, 1839
928	Atlas	1833	Sussex Co, DE	Lost Desolation Island, 1858.
438	Attleboro			Lost off the island of Mocha.
931	Audley Clarke	1833	Newport, RI	Sold for California, 1848
932	Augusta			Condemned as a slaver; sold at auction in NY
10	Augusta	1814	Medford, MA	Cond at Rio, Oct, 1845
933	Augustine Heard
934	Augustine Kobbe	1866	Searsport, ME	Sold foreign, 1901
53	Augustus	1810	New Bedford, MA	Broken up, 1824
749	Aurelia	1849	Falmouth, MA	Sold at St Vincent, CVI, 1879
935	Aurora		ex E. H. Hatfield	Cond at Bermuda
939	Aurora
940	Aurora		Virginia	Lost, NZ, 1821
2875	Aurora
938	Aurora	1795	Newburgh, NY
57	Aurora	1817	Barnstable, MA	Sold foreign, 1832
936	Aurora	1819	Haddam, CT	Withdr, sailed for Calif, 1849, Lost in Oregon
37	Aurora	1856	Dartmouth, MA
941	Australia	1849	Medford, MA
942	Autumn	1827	Plymouth, MA	Sold for California, 1849
11	Averick	1828	Fairhaven, MA	Whaled under Chilean flag renamed Recovery
773	Averick Heinecken	1832	Baltimore, MD
943	Avis	1827	Bath, ME	Lost
40	Avola	1841	Waldoboro, ME	Cond at Mahe, Mar 5, 1877
31	Awashonks	1830	Falmouth, MA	Lost in the Arctic, Sept 8,1871