Whaling Collections
Books contributed by New Bedford Whaling Museum.
Logbook of the Adeline Gibbs (bark), of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Moses L. Snell, keeper unknown, on voyage from 1875 Aug. 9-1878 Apr. 3
Logbook of the Alaska (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Charles Fisher, keeper unknown, on voyage 28 June 1871 – 4 October 1875
Logbook of the Alaska (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Shubael Hawes Norton, kept by Eliel T. Fish, on voyage from 21 August 1867 – 19 April 1871
Logbook of the Albion (ship), of Fairhaven, Mass., mastered by Jahaziel Jenney and then Smith, kept by Benjamin F. Gibbs, on voyage from 1842 Sept. 9-1844 June 5
Logbook of the Alcyone (Schooner) of Provincetown, Mass., mastered by Antone E. Mello and Colin A. Stevenson, keeper unknown, on six voyages from 1888 August 15-1894 September 11
Logbook of the Alert (Ship) of New London, Conn., mastered by Nathaniel Middleton Jr., kept by P. Latimer Rogers, on voyage from 1845 June 16-1847 May 24
Logbook of the Alexander (ship), of Nantucket, Mass., mastered by George Brown Chase, keeper unknown, on voyage from 1821 Aug. 18-1824 May 3
Logbook of the Alexander (Steam bark) of San Francisco, mastered by B.T. Tilton, kept by W.S. Varnum, on voyage from 1897 March20-1897] November 3
Date: January 1, 1899
Logbook of the Alexander Barclay (ship), of New Bedford, Mass.; mastered by Clement Norton, kept by Levi C. Fisher, 1840 Jan. 3-Dec. 25
Showing 1081-1090 of 1538 results
Subjects in this Collection
- (George Brown)
- --Abraham Barker (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- --Active (Bark : 1839-1874)--Sightings and encounters
- --Eliza (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- --Europa (Ship : 1851-1876)--Sightings and encounters
- --Louisa (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- --Nancy (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- --Portia (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- --Rising Sun (Schooner).--Sightings and encounters
- --Tamerlane (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- --William and Henry (Ship : 1818-1871)--Sightings and encounters
- A.J. Ross (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Abigail (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Accidents
- Accounts
- Addison (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Admiral Berkley (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Aeronaut (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Aids to navigation
- Albion (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Alert (Brig : Active 1807-1824)--Sightings and encounters
- Alice Knowles (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Alliance (Ship : 1811-1828)--Sightings and encounters
- Alliance (Ship : 1822-1825)--Sightings and encounters
- Amazon (Ship : 1815-1856)--Sightings and encounters
- Ambergris
- America (Bark : 1811-1851)--Sightings and encounters
- Amethyst (Ship : 1823-1860)--Sightings and encounters
- Ampannan Bay (Indian Ocean)
- Andaman Islands (India)
- Anne (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Ann Parry (Whaling ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Antoine, Joseph
- Arab (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Arctic Ocean--Description and travel
- Armstrong, William
- Arnolda (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Asia (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Atlantic (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Atlantic (Ship : Launched 1819)--Sightings and encounters
- Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel
- Balaena (Ship).--Sightings and encounters
- Bali
- Barbados
- Barclay (Ship : 1793-1859)--Sightings and encounters
- Barrow, Point (Alaska)
- Bartholomew Gosnold (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Bartholomew Gosnold (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Bear (Ship).--Sightings and encounters
- Belvedere (Ship : 1892-1907).--Sightings and encounters
- Bering Sea--Description and travel
- Bermuda Islands
- Bingham (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Birds
- Blacksmithing
- Block Island (R.I. : Island)
- Blue whale
- Bounty Islands (N.Z.)--Description and travel
- Bourne, Jonathan,--1811-1889
- Bowhead whale
- Brandt (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Brava (Cabo Verde)
- Bremen (Germany)--Description and travel
- Bridgetown (Barbados)
- Brighton (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Brothers (Ship : 1796-1823)--Sightings and encounters
- Brunswick (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Burnham, Lorenzo D
- Cake
- Caledonia (Ship : Active 1828-1848)--Sightings and encounters
- Callao (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Camillus (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Canary Islands
- Cape Chatham (W.A.)
- Cape Horn (Chile)--Description and travel
- Cape Horn Pigeon (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Cape Lisburne (Alaska) Description and travel.
- Caroline (Ship : Active 1843-1854)--Sightings and encounters
- Carrie Knowles (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- Ceres (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Charles (Ship : 1817-1855)--Sightings and encounters
- Charles Hodgson (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- Charles Platt (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- Charles W. Morgan (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Chase, George B.
- China Sea
- Christmas
- Cicero (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Civil war--Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island)
- Clark's Point (Mass.)
- Clermont (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Coffin's Isle (W.A.)
- Collisions at sea
- Columbia (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Columbus (Ship : 1809-1858)--Sightings and encounters
- Columbus (Ship : 1819-1833)--Sightings and encounters
- Columbus (Ship : 1820-1851)--Sightings and encounters
- Commodore Morris (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Commodore Morris (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Concordia (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Cone (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Congress (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Connecticut (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Cook Islands--Description and travel
- Cornel, James
- Corvo Island (Azores)
- Cossack (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Courser (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Crew lists
- Criterion (Ship : Active 1802-1829)--Sightings and encounters
- Cross Island (Alaska)--Description and travel
- Cyrus (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- d. 1844
- Dauphin (Ship : 1804-1830)--Sightings and encounters
- Davis, Robert
- Dawn (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Death
- Delta (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Delta (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Desdemona (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Desertion, Naval
- Diomede Islands (Alaska and Russia)
- Dirk Hartog Island (W.A.)
- Diseases
- Dominga (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Dominica
- Draco (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Draper (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Drawings
- Dryad (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Duc D'Orleans (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Duc d'Orleans (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Dutch Harb (Alaska)--Description and travel
- Dutch Harbor (Alaska)--Description and travel
- Eanos, Manuel
- Edgartown (Mass.)--Description and travel
- Edith McIntyre (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- Efate (Vanuatu)
- Eliza Barker (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Elizabeth (Bark : 1841-1856)--Sightings and encounters
- Elizabeth (Ship : 1837-1864)--Sightings and encounters
- Ensign (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Enterprise (Ship : 1807-1855)--Sightings and encounters
- Equator (Ship : 1818-1831)--Sightings and encounters
- Equipment and supplies
- Factor (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Faial Island (Azores)
- Fairhaven--whaling masters--whaling masters
- Falcon (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Falcon (Ship : 1820-1825)--Sightings and encounters
- Fiji
- Finback whale
- Firearms accidents
- Fisher, Charles W., whaling master
- Flinders Bay (W.A.)
- Flora (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Flores Island (Azores)
- Florida (Ship : Active 1821-1823)--Sightings and encounters
- France.--Marine
- Frances A. Barstow (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Francis (Ship : Launched 1816)--Sightings and encounters
- Franklin (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Frates, Joe
- Frederick Augustus (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Galen (Ship : 1820-1846)--Sightings and encounters
- Ganges (Ship : 1809-1858)--Sightings and encounters
- Garden Island (N.S.W.)
- Gardner & Swift (Nantucket, Mass.)
- Gem (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- General Scott (Bark : 1871-1884)--Sightings and encounters
- Geographe Bay (W.A.)
- George and Martha (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- George and Susan (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Georges (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Gideon (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Gilbert, George
- Globicephala
- Golconda 2nd (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Golden City (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- Good Hope, Cape of (South Africa : Cape)--Description and travel
- Gough Island (Tristan da Cunha)
- Governor Troup (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Grampus (Mammals)
- Grand-Gosier (Haiti)
- Gratte (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Gray, George W
- Gray whale
- Grenada
- Guadalupe
- Gustave (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- H. Liebes & Co
- H. Liebes & Company
- Haida Gwaii (B.C.)
- Haiti
- Hallsworth, Paul
- Hamilton (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Hamilton (Ship : Active 1836-1848)--Sightings and encounters
- Hand-to-hand fighting
- Hannibal (Ship : 1819-1849)--Sightings and encounters
- Harrison, William Henry,--1773-1841
- Harvest (Bark : 1831-1861)--Sightings and encounters
- Havens & Smith (New London, Conn.)
- Hawaii
- Hawaii--Description and travel
- Helen Mar (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Heman Smith (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Henry Duke (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Henry Lee (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Henry Pratt (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Herald (Ship : 1798-1854)--Sightings and encounters
- Herald (Ship : 1798-1855)--Sightings and encounters
- Hercules (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Hercules (Ship : 1816-1857)--Sightings and encounters
- Herschel Island (Yukon)--Description and travel
- Hibernia (Ship : 1811-1860)--Sightings and encounters
- Honolulu (Hawaii)
- Hope (Ship : 1822-1863)--Sightings and encounters
- Hope On (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Horn, Cape (Chile)--Description and travel
- Humpback whale
- Huntress (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Huron (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Hycso (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Hydaspe (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Icebergs
- Illinois (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Illustrations
- Inagua (Bahamas)
- Independence (Ship : 1811-1837)--Sightings and encounters
- Indian Ocean--Description and travel
- Indigenous peoples
- Insubordination
- Inventories
- Iris (Ship : 1818-1855)--Sightings and encounters
- Iron Pot Lighthouse (Tasmania)
- Isaac Howland, Jr. & Company (New Bedford, Mass.)
- Isle de France (Mauritius)
- Janus (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Jason (Ship : Active 1832-1848)--Sightings and encounters
- Jasper (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Java (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Java (Ship : 1818-1855)--Sightings and encounters
- Jeannette (Ship).--Sightings and encounters
- Jenney, Jahaziel,
- Jepson, John
- Jireh Perry (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- John, Antonio
- John Adams (Whaling ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Jones (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Joseph, John
- Josephine (Ship : 1824-1852)--Sightings and encounters
- Josephine (Ship : 1856-1876)--Sightings and encounters
- Joseph Maxwell (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Julian (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Julius Caesar (Ship : Active 1820-1822)--Sightings and encounters
- Juno (Brig : Active 1818-1845)--Sightings and encounters
- Kaktovik Village--Description and travel
- Karluk (Ship).--Sightings and encounters
- Kathleen (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Kempton, M. C
- Killer whale
- Kingston (Jamaica)
- Knowles, George O
- Lagoda (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Lancer (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Lawrence, Mathias
- Leeuwin, Cape (W.A.)
- Leo (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Leonidas (Ship : Active 1816-1851)--Sightings and encounters
- Lewis (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Lightning
- Limes
- Lion (Ship : Active 1821-1822)--Sightings and encounters
- Lisburne, Cape (Alaska)
- Liverpool (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Logbooks
- Loper (Ship : Launched 1821)--Sightings and encounters
- Lydia (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Madagascar
- Maine (ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Maintenance and repair
- Mangaia (Cook Islands)--Description and travel
- Marcia (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Marengo (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Maria Teresa (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Marie Galante (Guadaloupe)
- Marine accidents
- Mary (Ship : 1820-1860)--Sightings and encounters
- Mary Ann (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Mary Frazier (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Maryland (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Mary Mitchell (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Mary Willis (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- Massachusetts
- Mattapoisett (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Maui (Hawaii)--Description and travel
- McDougal, William
- Medicine, Naval
- Mello, Antone E
- Mercator (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Merchant ships
- Merlin (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Merrimac (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Meuse (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Midas (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Middleton, Nathaniel
- Miller, Augustus
- Milton (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Minerva Smyth (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Mintelle, Joe
- Mobulidae
- Monmouth (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Montauk (N.Y.)
- Montauk Point (N.Y.)
- Montpelier (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Moon
- Mount Vernon (Ship : 1820-1856)--Sightings and encounters
- Mount Wollaston (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Murray, Thomas
- Myra (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Nantucket--whaling masters
- Napoleon (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Natal Bay (South Africa)
- Nautilus (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Navarch (Steam bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Navy (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Neptune (Ship : 1809-1850)--Sightings and encounters
- New Bedford
- New Bedford--whaling masters
- New Zealand--Description and travel
- Niger (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Ninus (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- North America (Ship : Active 1816-1827)--Sightings and encounters
- Norton, Clement
- Norton, Shubael H
- Observations
- Ocean Steed (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Octavia (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Ontario (Ship : 1820-1853)--Sightings and encounters
- Onward (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Orca (Steam bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Orion (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Otago (N.Z.)--Description and travel
- Pacific (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Pacific (Ship : 1818-1840 and 1850-1858)--Sightings and encounters
- Pacific (Ship : 1818-1855)--Sightings and encounters
- Pacific Ocean--Description and travel
- Palladium (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Pallas (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Palmetto (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Pembroke (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Penguin Island (W.A.)
- Penguins
- Perry, Jose
- Persia (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Peruvian (Ship : 1818-1857)--Sightings and encounters
- Peters, Charles
- Phenix (Ship : 1830-1849)--Sightings and encounters
- Phenix (Ship : Active 1830-1849)--Sightings and encounters
- Phoenix (Ship : 1827-1861)--Sightings and encounters
- Pico Island (Azores)
- Pitt Island (N.Z.)
- Planter (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Pleiades (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Pocahontas (Ship : 1821-1857)--Sightings and encounters
- Poems
- Point Hope (Alaska)--Description and travel
- Polar bear hunting
- Policy (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Porpoises
- Port-au-Prince Bay (Haiti)
- Port-Salut (Haiti)
- Port Clarence (Alaska)--Description and travel
- Portsmouth (Dominica)
- Praya, Frank
- President (Bark : 1859-1880)--Sightings and encounters
- Price, Eben
- Progress (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Provincetown (Mass.)--Description and travel
- Punishment
- Quail, Thurches
- Rainbow (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Rainstorms
- Recherche Bay (Tas.)
- Recovery (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Resolution (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Rich, William
- Richmond (Ship : Launched 1816)--Sightings and encounters
- Right Whales
- Rodires, John
- Rodrigues (Mauritius)
- Roland (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Rosalie (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Roscoe (Bark : 1833-1859)--Sightings and encounters
- Roscoe (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Rose, Ben
- Roxana (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Russell (N.Z.)--Description and travel
- Russell (Ship : 1804-1831)--Sightings and encounters
- Réunion
- Sabarrey, Joseph
- Sabastiano, Manuel
- Sailor Boy (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- Saint-Augustin, Bay of (Madagascar)by
- Saint-Pierre (Martinique)
- Saint George (Ship : 1828-1876)--Sightings and encounters
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Paul Island (W.A.)
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Sally (Ship : Active 1788-1823)--Sightings and encounters
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Santiago de Cuba (Cuba)
- Santo Antao Island (Cabo Verde)
- Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)
- Sawin, Ezekiel
- Sayers, Joe
- Sea Breeze (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Seafaring life
- Sea Lion (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Seals (Animals)
- Sea Ranger (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Selma (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Sharks
- Sheppard, William F
- Ships
- Shipwrecks
- Shumagin Islands (Alaska)
- Silva, John
- Sint Eustatius
- Smith,--shipmaster
- Snell, Moses L
- Society Islands (French Polynesia)--Description and travel
- South Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel
- South Boston (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Spartan (Ship : 1821-1864)--Sightings and encounters
- Spermo (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Sperm whale
- St. Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
- St. Mary, Cape (W.A.)
- Stafford (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- States (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Sternman, Fred
- Stevenson, Colin A
- Sunfishes
- Superior (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Sylvia, Joe
- Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island)--Description and travel
- Tahiti--Description and travel
- Tahitu, John
- Tarquin (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Tasmania
- Tenedos (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Thomas (Ship : Active 1819-1825)--Sightings and encounters
- Thomas Dickason (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Thrasher (Steam bark).--Sightings and encounters
- Three Brothers (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Tiburon (Haiti)
- Tilton, B.T
- Tonga
- Topaz (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- Torpedo (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Tortoise (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Trafalgar (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Trinidad
- Tromelin Island
- Turtles
- Two People's Bay (W.A.)
- Uncas (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Union (Ship : Launched 1804)--Sightings and encounters
- Vache Island (Haiti)
- Varnum, W.S.
- Vineyard Haven (Mass.)
- Virginia (Ship : 1836-1851)--Sightings and encounters
- Volant (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Voyages and travels
- Walrus
- Warsaw (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Washington (Ship : 1819-1861)--Sightings and encounters
- Washington (Ship : 1832-1851)--Sightings and encounters
- Watson, Robert
- Wave (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Welcome Home (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- Weymouth (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Whalebone
- Whale oil
- Whalers (Persons)
- Whalers (Persons)--Death
- Whales
- Whaling
- Whaling--California--San Francisco
- Whaling--Connecticut--New London
- Whaling--Massachusetts--Provincetown
- Whaling masters
- Whaling ships
- Whaling ships--Equipment and supplies
- White Oak (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- White whale
- William A. Grozier (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- William Baylies (Steam bark).--Sightings and encounters
- Wilmington and Liverpool Packet (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Winslow (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Women and the sea
- Woodworth, Gilford D