Whaling Collections
Books contributed by New Bedford Whaling Museum.
Logbook of the William (Brig) of Fall River, Mass., mastered by Elisha G. Cudworth, relief master, Capt. Endsworth, keeper unknown, on voyage 25 June 1838 – 19 December 1838
Logbook of the William and Eliza (Ship) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Cornelius Howland, kept by Allen Howland, on two voyages from 1810 January 28-1811 May 26
Logbook of the William and Eliza (ship) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by William H. Whitfield, keeper Francis M. Shaw, on voyage 6 October 1844 – 4 July
Logbook of the William Baylies (Steam bark) of San Francisco, Calif., mastered by C.E. Buckley and then S.F. Cottle, kept by S.F. Cottle, on voyage from 1899 February 28-1899 November 16
Date: January 1, 1899
Logbook of the William Baylies (Steam bark) of San Francisco, mastered by John MacInnis, keeper unknown, on voyage from 1894 March 31-1895 November 7
Date: January 1, 1894
Logbook of the William Hamilton (Ship) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Captain Fisher, kept by Abraham W. Pierce, on voyage 10 July 1845 – 14 January 1848
Logbook of the William Ivy (Bark) of New York, NY, mastered by Hall, kept by Volney A. Farr, on voyage from 1849 January 25-1849 July 23
Logbook of the William Thompson (Ship) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Peter Childs, kept George D. Kirby, on voyage from 1857 August 4-1860 September 6
Logbook of the William Thompson (Ship) of New Bedford, Mass.; mastered by Hiram Weeks, kept by Lyman Healy, on voyage from 18 June 1835-31 Aug. 1838],
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Subjects in this Collection
- --Florida (Ship : 1827-1870)--Sightings and encounters
- --John and Elizabeth (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- --Phoenix (Ship : 1821-1860)--Sightings and encounters
- Accidents
- Adams (Steamer)--Sightings and encounters
- Aitutake Atoll (Cook Islands)
- Alaska Natives
- Albacore
- Alexander (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Alexander (Steam bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Alliance (Steamship)--Sightings and encounters
- Aloha (Steam bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Amsterdam Island (Terres australes et antarctiques françaises)
- Anchors
- Annawan (Bark : 1823-1839)--Sightings and encounters
- Archer (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Arctic Ocean--Descripion and travel
- Arctic Ocean--Description and travel
- Assumption Island (Seychelles)
- Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel
- Baily, John
- Balaena (Steam bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Baptism
- Barker, William
- Barnard, J. S
- Barrow, Point (Alaska)--Description and travel
- Baseball
- Bay of Islands (N.Z.)--Description and travel
- Bear (Cutter)--Sightings and encounters
- Beluga (Steam bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Belvedere (Steam bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Benjamin Rush (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Bering Sea--Description and travel
- Black Warrior (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Block Island (R.I. : Island)
- Blue whale
- Bonanza (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- Bonin Islands (Japan)--Description and travel
- Bowditch (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Bowhead (Steam whaler)--Sightings and encounters
- Bowhead whale
- Brock, John C.
- Brooklin (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Buckley, C. E.,---1899--Death and burial
- Buckley, C.E. d. 1899
- Cabinet (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- California (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- California (Ship : 1842-1889)--Sightings and encounters
- Canton (Ship : 1808-1854)--Sightings and encounters
- Caroline (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Carrolton, Henry
- Champion (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Champion (Ship : 1833-1871)--Sightings and encounters
- Charles (Ship : 1817-1855)--Sightings and encounters
- Charles Nelson (Steamship)--Sightings and encounters
- Charles Phelps (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Charleston Packet (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Children and the sea
- Childs, Peter
- Christmas
- Church attendance
- Cole, Josiah
- Commodore Preble (Whaling ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Concordia (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Condon (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Corvo (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Corvo Island (Azores)
- Cottle, S.F. (Stephen F.)
- Courier (Ship : 1817-1861)--Sightings and encounters
- Covington (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Cudworth, Elisha G
- Death
- Deer hunting
- Desertion, Naval
- Diamond Head (Hawaii)
- Diseases
- Dover (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Drowning
- Drowning victims
- Dutch Harbor (Alaska)--Description and travel
- East Hampton (N.Y.)
- Edward Cory (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Elizabeth (Ship : 1827-1841)--Sightings and encounters
- Empire (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Equipment and supplies
- Eugene (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- F. H. Moore (Brig)
- Falkland Islands--Description and travel
- Fall River
- Farr, Volney A.
- Fearless (Steam bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Ferdinand (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Fernando de Noronha (Brazil)
- Finback whale
- Firearms
- Fisher, Lorenzoi
- Fortuna (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Fourth of July celebrations
- Fredonia (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Friends (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Frohn, Gus--Death and burial
- G. E. Donnel (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- General Fest (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- George S. Homer (Steam bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Globicephala
- Gold Rush
- Good Return (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Graciosa Island (Azores)
- Grampus (Mammals)
- Grampus (Steam barkentine)--Sightings and encounters
- Grand Turk (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Grant (Cutter)--Sightings and encounters
- Guam
- Gulf of Mexico--Description and travel
- Gypsy (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Hamilton (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Harrison (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Hawaii
- Heiss Island (Russia)
- Henry (Whaleship)--Sightings and encounters
- Henry Taber & Company (New Bedford, Mass.)
- Hercules (Ship : 1816-1857)--Sightings and encounters
- Herschel Island (Yukon)--Description and travel
- Hibernia (Ship : 1830-1862)--Sightings and encounters
- Honolulu (Hawaii)
- Hope (Ship : 1821-1862)--Sightings and encounters
- Howard (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Howland, Allen
- Howland, Cornelius,
- Humpback whale
- Hunting
- Huntress (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Hussey, Oliver C.
- Illustrations
- Indian Ocean--Description and travel
- Indigenous peoples
- Isaac Howland (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Isaac Howland, Jr. & Company (New Bedford, Mass.)
- Isabella (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Jasper (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Jeanette (Steam brigantine)--Sightings and encounters
- Jenney, Isaac H
- John Howland (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Joseph, Jesse
- Joseph, Lauro
- Karluk (Steam brigantine)--Sightings and encounters
- Kent (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Kirby, George D.
- Lagrange (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- LaGrange (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Lahaina (Hawaii)
- Lalla Rookh (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Lancaster (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Leader (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Lewis, William
- Lewis, William--(Shipowner)
- Little, John O
- Logbooks
- Macaulay Island (Kermadec Islands)
- MacInnis, John--(Shipmaster)
- Magnolia (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Manchester (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Margaret (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Maria (Ship : 1822-1844)--Sightings and encounters
- Marine accidents
- Mariner (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Martha (Ship : 1826-1860)--Sightings and encounters
- Massachusetts
- Maui (Hawaii)
- Medicine, Naval
- Mentor (Ship : 1830-1848)--Sightings and encounters
- Messenger (Ship)
- Metacom (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Munroe, William M.
- N. D. Chase (Bark)
- Narwal (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Narwhal (Steam bark)--Sightings and encounters
- New Bedford
- New Bedford--whaling masters
- Newport (Steam barkentine).--Sightings and encounters
- Nimrod (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Noble (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- Norman (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Norse, Anthony
- North America (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Oahu (Hawaii)
- Ocmulgee (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Ocumulgee (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Olinda (Brazil)
- Ontario (Ship : 1820-1853)--Sightings and encounters
- Orocimbo (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Pacific Ocean--Description and travel
- Peck, John
- Pernambuco (Brazil)
- Perry, Jireh, 1795-1849
- Peruvian (Ship : 1818-1857)--Sightings and encounters
- Pitcairn Island
- Poetry
- Point Hope (Alaska)--Description and travel
- Pope, John
- Porpoises
- Portsmouth (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Prudence (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Punishment
- Quid Pool (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Quinto (Brig)
- Racing
- Ranger (Screw steamer)--Sightings and encounters
- Raoul Island (Kermadec Islands)
- Redding, Henry P
- Reindeer (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Religion
- Rescues
- Right Whales
- Robert Brown (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Rush (Cutter)--Sightings and encounters
- Ryukyu Islands--Description and travel
- Sabbath
- Sal (Cabo Verde)
- Samoa
- Sao Jorge (Azores)
- Sao Tiago Island (Cabo Verde)
- Sara (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Sarah and Julia (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Seafaring life
- Seals (Animals)
- Sharks
- Sherman, Helen Herschel--Birth
- Shipwrecks
- Smith, John
- Smoking cessation
- Soper, Robert
- South Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel
- South Pacific Ocean--Description and travel
- Sperm whale
- St. George (Ship : 1828-1876)--Sightings and encounters
- Steiglits (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Stephania (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Stewart Island/Rakiura (N.Z.)
- Suicide
- Suicide victims
- Superior (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Sussex (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Swift & Perry
- Tasmania
- Terceira Island (Azores)
- Thrasher (Steam bark).--Sightings and encounters
- Tiger (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Townsend, E
- Triton (Ship : 1816-1848)--Sightings and encounters
- Tutuila Island (American Samoa)
- Unalaska (Alaska)--Description and travel
- Upolu (Samoa)
- Valparaiso (Chile)
- Vineyard (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Voyages and travels
- Walrus
- Warren (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Waverly (Ship)
- Weeks, Charles E.--Death and burial
- Weeks, Hiram,--1804-1864
- West Indies--Description and travel
- Whalers' spouses
- Whalers (Persons)
- Whalers (Persons)--Death
- Whalers (Persons)--Religious life
- Whales
- Whaling
- Whaling--California--San Francisco
- Whaling--Massachuetts--Beverly
- Whaling--Massachuetts--Nantucket
- Whaling--Massachuetts--New Bedford
- Whaling--New York--New York
- WhalingCaliforniaSan Francisco
- Whaling masters
- Whaling masters--Death
- Whaling ships
- Whaling ships--Equipment and supplies
- Whaling ships--Maintenance and repair
- Whitfield, William H
- Wilson, David
- Winslow (Bark : 1833-1858)--Sightings and encounters
- Women and the sea
- Wounds and injuries
- Wright, Henry