Whaling Collections
Books contributed by New Bedford Whaling Museum.
[Zephyr (Ship) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Abraham Gardner, keeper Michael Cumiskey, on voyage 29 June 1839 – 19 March 1843],
[Zoroaster (Brig) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Joseph Seabury, on voyage 6 July 1843 – 19 May 1845],
Albert Van Beest sketchbook
Date: January 1, 1843
Alert (Ship : 1816-1818), merchant vessel, out of Boston, Mass.; mastered by Samuel Porter, on multiple voyages 10 Nov. 1816-29 Aug. 1818, log kept by chief officer Spencer Leonard
Date: November 10, 1816
American Whalers In The Western Arctic
Date: January 1, 1983
An Arctic Whaling Sketchbook
Date: January 1, 1983
Atkins Adams (Bark) whaling vessel, out of Fairhaven, Mass., mastered by William Wilson, kept by William A. Abbe, on voyage 8 Oct. 1858-16 June 1863 to the North Atlantic, Archer, Offshore, Galapagos, and Massafuera whaling grounds
Barclay (Bark) of Westport, Mass., mastered by James King, on voyage from 1 June 1849-1 Sept. 1850
Champion (Ship) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Joseph Bailey (dies Feb. 1852 of stroke) and then William B. Waterman. Kept by Charles R. Cary, William B. Waterman, and N.P. Gray. 1850 June 18-1853 Mar. 24 :
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- --England--Commerce
- --Nancy (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- --Ship captains
- --William Thompson (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- 1796-
- 1810-
- Abigail (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Accidents
- Accounts
- Aldabra Island (Seychelles)
- Alexander (Ship)
- Alexander Coffin (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Amazon (Ship)
- Amethyst (Ship : 1823-1860)
- Ann Parry (Whaling ship)
- Arab (Ship)
- Atlanta Fisher (Ship)
- Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel
- Audley Clarke (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Bailey, Joseph,--d. 1852
- Balaena (Ship)
- Baltic (Ship : 1827-1843)
- Barlow, Francis
- Bartholomew Gosnold (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Beaver (Brig)
- Bengal (Ship)
- Blackler, William Greenleaf,--1803-1880
- Bowline, Jack--Death and burial
- Braganza (Ship)
- C.G. & H. Coffin (Nantucket, Mass.)
- Cadmus (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Caledonia (Ship)
- Cambra (Ship)
- Canton (Ship : 1808-1854)
- Cargo ships
- Carter, James
- Catherine (Bark)
- Chariot (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Charles and Henry (Ship)
- Charles Drew (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Clementine (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Coleman, John B.
- Collisions at sea
- Columbus (Ship : 1809-1858)
- Columbus (Ship : 1809-1858)--Sightings and encounters
- Comoros
- Corey, Alexander H.
- Corinthian (Ship)
- Cosmoledo Group (Seychelles)
- Courier (Ship : 1817-1861)
- Courier (Ship : 1817-1861)--Sightings and encounters
- Crew lists
- Cruelty
- Cyrus (Ship)
- Daniel Webster (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Death
- Deserters
- Deserters, Naval
- Desertion, Naval
- Diseases
- Dominica--Description and travel
- Drake (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Drowning
- Drowning victims
- Eagle (Ship : 1816-1869)
- Eagle (Ship : 1816-1869)--Sightings and encounters
- Elephant seals
- Elizabeth (Ship : 1837-1864)--Sightings and encounters
- Emerald (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Enterprise (Brig : 1812-1823)
- Faial Island (Azores)
- Faial Island (Azores)--Description and travel
- Finback whale
- Flores Island (Azores)
- Flores Island (Azores)--Description and travel
- Flyingfishes
- Fop, Daniel
- Fortune (Bark)
- Franklin (Ship)
- Frederick Augustus (Ship)
- Galapagos Islands--Description and travel
- Galen (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Gardner, Abraham
- General Jackson (Ship)
- George and Mary (Ship)
- Gibbs, Alexander
- Gilkerson, William
- Globicephala
- Good Hope, Cape of (South Africa : Cape)
- Graciosa Island (Azores)
- Grampus (Mammals)
- Gratitude (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Hadley Clarke (Ship)
- Hand-to-hand fighting
- Hawaii
- Hawaii--Commerce
- Helvetius (Ship)
- Henry Astor (Ship)
- Herald (Ship : 1818-1873)
- Hercules (Ship : 1816-1857)
- Hesper (Ship)
- Hobomok (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Hong Kong (China)--Description and travel
- Honolulu (Hawaii)--Description and travel
- Hope (Bark : 1815-1862)
- Horn, Cape (Chile)
- Howard (Ship)
- Humpback whale
- Huron (Ship)
- Illustrations
- Indian (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Indian Ocean--Description and travel
- Indigenous peoples
- Insubordination
- Inventories
- Iris (Ship : 1818-1855)
- Iris (Ship : 1818-1855)--Sightings and encounters
- Isabella (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Isabella (Ship : 1804-1850)
- James Henry (Ship)
- Java (Ship : 1818-1855)--Sightings and encounters
- Jenny, Joseph
- John Coggeshall (Ship)
- Juan Fernandez Islands--Description and travel
- Juan Fern�andez Islands Description and travel.
- Juan Fern�ndez Islands--Description and travel
- Killer whale
- King, James, whaling master.
- Kingston (Ship)
- Lahaina (Hawaii)
- Lahaina (Hawaii)--Description and travel
- Lakeman, William
- Lemuel C. Richmond (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Leonidas (Brig)
- Levant (Bark)
- Levi Starbuck (Ship)
- Lincoln, Henry
- Loan (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Logbooks
- Madagascar
- Magnolia (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Maine (Bark)
- Manchester, Gideon
- Maria Theresa (Ship)
- Marine accidents
- Mariner (Ship)
- Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia)
- Marshall Islands
- Martha (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Martha (Ship : 1810-1849)
- Mary Mitchell (Ship)
- Massachusetts
- Maui (Hawaii)
- Maui (Hawaii)--Description and travel
- Mayotte
- Mechanic (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Medicine, Naval
- Mental Illness
- Mentor (Bark)
- Merchant mariners
- Messenger (Ship)
- Milo (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Missionaries
- Missionaries--Death
- Moctezuma (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Montezuma (Bark)
- Mutiny
- Nantucket
- Nantucket (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Nassau (Ship : 1824-1865)--Sightings and encounters
- Nautilus (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Naval
- Navy (Bark)
- New Bedford
- New Bedford (Mass.)--Description and travel
- North America (Ship)
- Oahu (Hawaii)--Description and travel
- Ocean (Bark)
- Ohio (Ship)
- Ontario (Ship : 1820-1853)
- Orion (Ship)
- Pacific (Ship : 1818-1855)--Sightings and encounters
- Pacific (Ship : 1826-1849)
- Pacific Ocean--Description and travel
- Paita (Peru)
- Paita (Peru)--Description and travel
- Parachute (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Peruvian (Ship : 1818-1857)
- Phenix (Ship : 1830-1849)--Sightings and encounters
- Pico Island (Azores)
- Pocahontas (Ship : 1821-1857)
- Poems
- Poetry
- Porpoises
- Porter,Samuel (Shipmaster)
- Praia (Cabo Verde)--Description and travel
- Praia (Cape Verde)--Description and travel
- Prayers
- Profile portraits
- Punishment
- Rambler (Ship : 1818-1855)
- Rambler (Ship : 1818-1855)--Sightings and encounters
- Rarotonga (Cook Islands)--Description and travel
- Raven (Ship)
- Rebecca Sims (Ship)
- Recall, James
- Religion
- Richard Mitchell (Ship)
- Right Whales
- Robbins, Nathaniel
- Rodman (Ship)
- Russell (Bark)
- Saint Thomas (V.I.) Description and travel.
- Sandalwood
- San Tiago Island (Cape Verde) Description and travel.
- Sao Jorge Island (Azores)
- Sao Tiago Island (Cabo Verde)--Description and travel
- Sarah Parker (Ship)
- Sargent, John
- Seabury, Joseph
- Seabury, Pardon G.
- Seafaring life
- Sea songs
- Ship captains' spouses
- Shipping--Massachusetts--Boston
- Shipwrecks
- Sightings and encounters
- Sims, Manuel
- Sketchbooks
- Slop chest
- Slop chests
- Smallpox
- South Pacific Ocean--Description and travel
- Spartan (Brig)
- Sperm whale
- Stafford, William
- Stony, Shepard
- Suicide
- S�o Tiago Island (Cabo Verde)--Description and travel
- S�ao Vicente Island (Cape Verde) Description and travel.
- Taber, John
- Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island)--Description and travel
- Talcahuano (Chile)--Description and travel
- Taylor, John
- Terceira Island (Azores)
- Thompson, James Davis, 1807-1880
- Timoleon (Ship)
- Tolman, Moses
- Tuberculosis
- Tumbes (Peru)--Description and travel
- Uncas (Ship)
- Vasquez--Description and travel
- Vineyard (Ship)
- Voyages and travels
- Walter Scott (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Watson, Mark
- Whale oil
- Whalers' spouses
- Whalers (Persons)
- Whalers (Persons)--Death
- Whalers (Persons)--Wounds and injuries
- Whales
- Whaling
- Whaling--Arctic regions--Pictorial works
- Whaling--History--19th century--Arctic regions
- Whaling--History--19th century--United States
- Whaling--Massachusetts--Fairhaven
- Whaling--Massachusetts--New Bedford
- Whaling--Massachusetts--Westport
- Whaling in art
- Whaling masters
- Whaling ships--Equipment and supplies
- Whaling ships--Maintenance and repair
- William (Brig : 1819-1846)
- William Rotch (Ship)
- William Wallace (Ship)
- Wilson, William (Shipmaster)
- Windstorms
- Wiscasset (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Women and the sea
- Wounds and injuries
- Xenophon (Ship)
- Young Eagle (Ship)
- Zone (Ship)--Sightings and encounters