Whaling Collections
Books contributed by New Bedford Whaling Museum.
[Abbott Lawrence (Brig) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Joseph A. Mosher, keeper unknown, on voyage 6 April 1880 – 8 September 1881],
[Abby P. Chase (Schooner) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by William Bly, keeper John H. Taber, on voyage 27 November 1849 – 11 May 1850],
[Abigail (Ship) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by William Hathaway Reynard, keeper Michael Cumiskey, on voyage 24 October 1835 – 26 October 1838],
[Abraham Barker (Bark), of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Alden T. Potter, kept by Thomas P. Warren, on voyage from 16 May 1871 – 21 September 1875],
[Adeline Gibbs (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by E.J. Reed, keeper John H. Egan, on voyage 15 December 1880 – 22 April 1885],
[Adeline Gibbs (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Edwin J. Reed, keeper John H. Egan, on voyage 15 December 1880 – 22 April 1885],
[Adeline Gibbs (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Elisha Babcock, keeper unknown, on voyage 10 July 1866 – 13 May 1870],
[Adeline Gibbs (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Jacob L. Cleaveland and then Frederick J. Forman, keeper unknown, on voyage 1 September 1870 – 26 September 1870; 19 October 1870 – 21 May 1875],
[Adeline Gibbs (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by John T. Besse, keeper John H. Egan, on voyage 2 July 1878 – 26 October 1880],
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Subjects in this Collection
- 'Eua Island (Tonga)--Description and travel
- --Coral (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- --Drinking of alcoholic beverages
- --Louisa (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- --William Tell (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- --William Thompson (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- 1811-1889
- A.R. Tucker (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Abbie Bradford (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- Abrolhos (Brazil)
- Accidents
- Addison (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Adeline (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Admiral Cogmon (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Adriana (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Aladdin (Ship)
- Alaska (Bark)
- Alaska (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Albion (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Alice Knowles (Bark)
- Allen, Gilbert--(Shipowner)
- Alpha (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Amy (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Andrew Hicks (Bark)
- Arizona (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- Arnolda (Bark)
- Astoria (Schooner)
- Atafu (Tokelau)--Description and travel
- Atlantic (Bark)
- Atlantic (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Atlantic Ocean
- Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel
- Augusta (Ship)
- Aurora (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Babcock, Elisha
- Balabec (Palawan, Philippines)--Description and travel
- Baltic (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Barkley (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Barter
- Bartholomew Gosnold (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Basilan Island (Philippines)--Description and travel
- Beaver (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Benjamin Cummings (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Benjamin Rush (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Bertha (Bark)
- Besse, John T
- Bly, William--(Shipmaster)
- Borden, Gilbert B
- Bourne, Jonathan,
- Bourne, Jonathan,--1811-1889
- Bowhead whale
- Boy (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Brava (Cabo Verde)--Description and travel
- Bremen (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Brothers (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Bunbury (W.A.)--Description and travel
- Caleb Eaton (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- California (Bark)
- California (Ship : 1842-1889)--Sightings and encounters
- California--Gold discoveries
- Callao (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Canton (Bark)
- Canton (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Carrie W. Clark (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- Cecelia (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Challenger (Ship : 1872-1876)--Sightings and encounters
- Charles W. Morgan (Ship)
- Charlotte Lang (Ship)
- Chatham Island (N.Z.)
- Chatham Island (N.Z.)--Description and travel
- Chaudiere (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Children and the sea
- China (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- China Sea--Description and travel
- Chronometers
- City of Brussels (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Clarice (Bark)
- Cleveland, Jacob L.--(Jacob Luce),--1821-1870--Death and burial
- Cocos Island (Costa Rica)--Description and travel
- Collisions at sea
- Columbus (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Commodore Morris (Bark)
- Commodore Morris (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Concordia (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Congress (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Coral (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Crowninshield (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Crozet Islands--Description and travel
- Cynthia Palmer (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Cyrus (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Daniel Webster (Bark)
- Death
- Description and travel
- Desdemona (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Desertion, Naval
- Desertions, Naval
- Diseases
- Dudley (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- E.F. Dunbar (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Easter Island Description and travel.
- Eliza (Bark : 1856-1890)--Sightings and encounters
- Eliza Adams (Ship)
- Eliza Adams (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Elizabeth (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Elizabeth Starbuck (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Emma C. Jones (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Equator (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Era (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- Erastus Corning (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Faial Island (Azores)
- Faial Island (Azores)--Description and travel
- Falcon (Bark : 1817-1895)
- Falkland Islands--Description and travel
- Fanny Fisher (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Finback whale
- Flores Island (Azores)
- Flores Island (Azores)--Description and travel
- Fon (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Forester (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Forman, Frederick
- Frances (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Frostbite
- Galapagos Islands--Description and travel
- Ganges (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Gardner Pinnacles (Hawaii)--Description and travel
- Gay Head (Bark)
- George & Mary (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- George & Mary (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- George (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- George and Susan (Bark)
- Globicephala
- Golconda (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Gold miners
- Gold mines and mining
- Good Hope, Cape of (South Africa : Cape)--Description and travel
- Grampus (Mammals)
- Great Fish Bay (Angola)
- Greenland
- Greyhound (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Hadley (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Halmahera (Indonesia)--Description and travel
- Harvest (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Helvetia (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Henry Astor (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Hercules (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Hero (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Horn, Cape (Chile)
- Horn, Cape (Chile)--Description and travel
- Horta (Steamer)--Sightings and encounters
- Hudson (Ship : Active 1875)--Sightings and encounters
- Hudson Bay--Description and travel
- Humpback wale
- Humpback whale
- Hunter (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Hurricanes
- Ice
- Inaccessible Island (Tristan da Cunha)--Description and travel
- Indian Ocean--Description and travel
- Indigenous peoples
- Irene (Ship)
- Isabella (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Isabella (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Islands, Bay of (N.Z.)--Description and travel
- Isle of France (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- J. & W.R. Wing & Co. (New Bedford, Mass.)
- James Arnold (Ship)
- James Arnold (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- James Colvin (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Janet (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Japan -- Description and travel
- Java (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Java--Description and travel
- Java Sea (Indonesia)
- Jireh Perry (Ship)
- John A. Lewis (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- John Howland (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Josephine (Bark)
- Josephine (Ship : 1856-1876)--Sightings and encounters
- Joseph Maxwell (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Kathleen (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Kenilworth (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Killer whale
- Kingston (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Klio (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Labuan (Malaysia)--Description and travel
- Laconia (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Lagoda (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Lahaina (Hawaii)--Description and travel
- Leader (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Lifuka Island (Tonga)--Description and travel
- Lochnagar (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Lydia (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Magnet (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Maluku (Indonesia)--Description and travel
- Manawat?whi/Three Kings Islands (N.Z.)--Description and travel
- Marble Island (Nunavut)--Description and travel
- Marcus (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Maria (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Marine accidents
- Mars (Bark)
- Martha (Bark : 1850-1874)--Sightings and encounters
- Mary (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Mary Ann Wilson (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Mary Frazier (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Massachusetts
- Masts and rigging
- Matilda (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Matilda Sears (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Mattapoisett (Bark)
- Mattapoisett (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Maui (Hawaii)--Description and travel
- Mercury (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Merlin (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Milo (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Milton (Ship)
- Milton (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Milwood (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Mindanao Island (Philippines)--Description and travel
- Minerva (Bark)
- Mobile (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Mollowell (Ship)
- Molucca Sea--Description and travel
- Montevideo (Uruguay)
- Morgan, Charles Waln, 1796-1861
- Morning Star (Bark)
- Mosher, Joseph A
- Mount Maunganui (Tauranga, N.Z.)--Description and travel
- Murry (Steamer)--Sightings and encounters
- Mutiny
- Naturaliste, Cape (W.A.)--Description and travel
- New Bedford
- New Caledonia--Description and travel
- New Ireland Island (Papua New Guinea)--Description and travel
- Nieu
- Niger (Ship)
- Niger (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Norfolk Island
- Nye (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Ocean (Bark)
- Ocean Steed (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Ohio (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Orion (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Orlando (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Orray Taft (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Oscar (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Osmanli (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Pacifc Ocean--Description and travel
- Pacific Ocean--Description and travel
- Panama (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Panama, Bay of (Panama)--Description and travel
- Panay Island (Philippines)--Description and travel
- Passenger ships--Equipment and supplies
- Penguin Island (W.A.)--Description and travel
- Pernambuco (Brazil)--Description and travel
- Perseverance (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Peruvian (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Petrel (Bark)
- Phoenix (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Pico Island (Azores)--Description and travel
- Pitt Island (N.Z.)
- Poetry
- Porpoises
- Port Louis (Mauritius)--Description and travel
- Potter, Alden T.--(Alden Tillinghast),--b. 1832
- Prayers
- Punishment
- Qikiqtaaluk Region (Nunavut)--Description and travel
- Rainbow (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Raoul Island (Kermadec Islands)--Description and travel
- Rats--Control
- Recovery (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Reed, Edwin G
- Reed, Edwin J
- Religion
- Rescues
- Reynard, William Hathaway
- Rheumatism
- Right Whales
- Robert Edwards (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Robert Morrison (Bark)
- Roman (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Roscius (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Rousseau (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Rowena (Steamer)--Sightings and encounters
- Runnymede (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Saint George (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Saint Helena
- Saint Helena--Description and travel
- Saint Paul Island (Terres australes et antarctiques fran�aises)--Description and travel
- Samuel Wright (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Description and travel
- Santa Maria Island (Galapagos Islands)--Description and travel
- Sao Tiago Island (Cabo Verde)
- Sappho (Bark)
- Scrimshaws
- Scurvy
- Seafaring life
- Sea Fox (Bark : Launched 1851)--Sightings and encounters
- Sealing--Massachusetts--New Bedford
- Seals (Animals)
- Sea Ranger (Bark)
- Sea Ranger (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Shalimar (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Sharon (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Ships--Fires and fire prevention
- Ships--Passenger lists
- Shipwrecks
- Sightings and encounters
- Sir Ralph Abercromby (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Solomon Islands--Description and travel
- Spartan (Bark : 1864-1876)--Sightings and encounters
- Spartan (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Sperm whale
- Splendid (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Splendid (Ship)
- Splendid (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Springfield (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- St. John's (N.L.)--Description and travel
- Stafford (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Stanton (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Stealing
- Stonington (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Stowaways
- Suicide
- Suicide victims
- Sulu Sea--Description and travel
- Sunbeam (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Swallow (Bark)
- S�o Nicolau Island (Cabo Verde)--Description and travel
- Taber, Jabez
- Talcahuano (Chile)--Description and travel
- Tamerlane (Bark)
- Tenerife (Canary Islands)
- Ternate (Indonesia)--Description and travel
- Thomas Williams (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Three Brothers (Bark : 1869-1877)--Sightings and encounters
- Three Brothers (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Thriver (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- Timoleon (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Tiuanau (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- Tonga
- Tongatapu--Description and travel
- Tongatapu Island (Tonga)--Description and travel
- Tower Castle (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Trident (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Trinidad--Description and travel
- Triton (Bark)
- Triton (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Tumbes (Peru)--Description and travel
- Typhoid fever
- Uncas (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Union (Bark : 1847-1868)--Sightings and encounters
- Union (Schooner : 1847-1883)--Sightings and encounters
- United States.--Consulate (St. John's, N.L.)
- Vava?u Island (Tonga)--Description and travel
- Victory (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Walrus
- Walter Palmer (Ship)
- Walter Scott (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Washington (Bark : 1826-1867)--Sightings and encounters
- Wave (Bark)
- Whalebone
- Whale oil
- Whalers' spouses
- Whalers (Persons)
- Whalers (Persons)--Death
- Whalers (Persons)--Health and hygiene
- Whaling
- Whaling--Massachusetts--New Bedford
- Whaling masters
- Whaling masters--Death
- Whaling ships--Equipment and supplies
- Whaling ships--Maintenance and repair
- White whale
- William A. Grozier (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- William and Henry (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- William C. Nye (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- William H. Besse (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Wind damage
- Windstorms
- Winslow (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Women and the sea
- Woodlark Island (Papua New Guinea)--Description and travel
- Young Eagle (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Young Phenix (Ship)--Sightings and encounters