Whaling Collections
Books contributed by New Bedford Whaling Museum.
[Sharon (Ship) of Fairhaven, Mass., mastered by Howes N. Norris and then Thomas Harlock Smith Jr., keeper Benjamin Clough, on voyage 25 May 1841 – 10 February 1845]
Date: May 25, 1841
[Smyrna (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Grafton Hillman, keeper Jared F. Norton, on voyage 21 October 1845 – 5 June 1849],
[Smyrna (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Isaac P. Webb, kept by Marshall Keith, on voyage 3 September 1859 – 11 June 1863],
[Solomon Saltus (Ship) of Fall River, Mass., mastered by James C. Stafford, keeper James C. Stafford, on voyage 9 September 1848 – 3 September 1850],
[Solon (Bark) of Westport, Mass., mastered by Joseph E. Smith, on voyage from 29 July 1858-28 Mar. 1860]
[South America (Ship) of Nantucket, Mass., mastered by Edmund Gardner, keeper Edmund Gardner, on voyage 21 August 1823 – 14 May 1824]
Date: August 21, 1823
[South Boston (Ship) of Fairhaven, Mass., mastered by Edward P. Randolph, keeper unknown, on voyage 8 October 1858 – 1862],
[St. George (Ship) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by George W. Slocum, keeper Henry A. Slocum, on voyage 10 June 1845 – 22 April 1847]
[St. George (Ship) of New Bedford, mastered by Joseph Dias, Jr., on voyage from 10 Sept. 1853-6 May 1857]
Date: January 1, 1853
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Subjects in this Collection
- (Argentina and Uruguay)--Description and travel
- (Shipmaster)
- --Barker, Abraham
- --Drinking of alcoholic beverages
- --Florida (Ship : 1827-1870)--Sightings and encounters
- --Norfolk Island--Description and travel
- --Timor (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- --Tonga--Description and travel
- --Upolu (Samoa)--Description and travel
- Abigail (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Accidents
- Acushnet (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Adeline Gibbs (Ship)
- Aids to navigation
- Alexander (Ship : 1821-1858)--Sightings and encounters
- Almira (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Amazon (Ship : 1815-1856)--Sightings and encounters
- America (Ship : 1822-1862)
- Amsterdam Island (Terres australes et antarctiques fran�aises)--Description and travel
- Angra do Hero�smo (Azores)--Description and travel
- Ann Maria (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Ann Mary Ann (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Annob�on (Equatorial Guinea) Description and travel.
- Ansel Gibbs (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Arctic Ocean--Description and travel
- Argonaut (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel
- Atlas (Ship : 1793-18288)--Sightings and encounters
- Aurora (Ship : 1819-1861)--Sightings and encounters
- Australia--Description and travel
- Azores -- Description and travel
- Babcock, George--Death and burial
- Banaba (Kiribati)
- Banaba (Kiribati)--Description and travel
- Barbados--Description and travel
- Barbara (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Barter
- Batan (Aklan, Philippines)
- Bayley (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Bermuda Islands--Description and travel
- Blackfish
- Blue whale
- Bostonian (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Bowhead whale
- Brava (Cabo Verde)--Description and travel
- Brava (Cape Verde)--Description and travel
- Bunbury (W.A.)--Description and travel
- California (Ship : 1842-1889)
- Callao (Callao, Peru)--Description and travel
- Canton (Ship : 1808-1865)--Sightings and encounters
- Carolina (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Caroline (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Caroline Islands--Description and travel
- Cestino, John--Death and burial
- Champion (Ship : 1833-1871)--Sightings and encounters
- Charles (Ship : 1817-1855)--Sightings and encounters
- Charles Carter (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Charles Phelps (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Charles W. Morgan (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Charlotte (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Chatham Island (N.Z.)--Description and travel
- Chelsea (Ship)--Sightings and encounter
- Christmas Island (Indian Ocean)--Description and travel
- Cincinnati (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Clarkson (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Clifford Wayne (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Coconut Island (Hawaii)--Description and travel
- Columbine (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- Columbus (Brig : 1822-1850)--Sightings and encounters
- Columbus (Ship : 1820-1851)--Sightings and encounters
- Commodore Preble (Whaling ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Congress (Ship : 1831-1865)
- Coriolanus (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Corvo Island (Azores)--Description and travel
- Cruelty
- Cumberland Bay (Chile)--Description and travel
- Dampier Archipelago (W.A.)--Description and travel
- Death
- Delta (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Description and travel
- Desertion
- Diana (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Dias, Joseph
- Diseases
- Draper (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Drowning
- Drowning victims
- Dunbarton (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Durfee, Nathan, 1799-1896
- Eagle (Ship : 1816-1869)--Sightings and encounters
- Edward Cary (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Ellen Snow (Bark)
- Emanuel (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Emee (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Emily Morgan (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Endeavor (ship)
- Eugenia (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Euphrates (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Exiett (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Factor (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Faial (Azores)--Description and travel
- Faial Island (Azores)--Description and travel
- Faial Island (Azores)--Description and travel --Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands)--Description and travel --Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel
- Fairhaven
- Falcon (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Fame (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Finback whale
- Finback whale --Humpback whale --Right whales --Accidents --Christmas cooking --Marine accidents --Seafaring life --Whalers (Persons) --Whaling--Massachusetts--New Bedford --Whaling masters
- Florence (Bark)
- Flores (Azores)--Description and travel
- Flores Island (Azores)--Description and travel
- Florida (Ship : 1827-1870)
- Fogo (Cape Verde)--Description and travel
- Fortitude (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Fortune (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Frances (Bark : 1845-1846)--Sightings and encounters
- Frederick Augustus (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Galapagos Islands--Description and travel
- Gem (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- General Williams (Ship)
- George & Mary (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- George (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- George and Martha (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- George and Susan (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Gibbs and Jenney
- Gideon Howland (Ship)
- Globicephala
- Good Hope, Cape of (South Africa : Cape)--Description and travel
- Good Return (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Governor Wolcott (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Graciosa Island (Azores)--Description and travel
- Grampus (Mammals)
- Gratitude (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Hakodate-ku (Japan)
- Hand-to-hand fighting
- Harrison (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Harvest (Bark : 1831-1861)
- Hecla (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Hector (Ship : 1818-1866)--Sightings and encounter
- Heroine (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Hibernia (Ship : 1830-1870)
- Hillman, Grafton
- Hilo (Hawaii)
- Honolulu (Hawaii)
- Horn, Cape (Chile)--Description and travel
- Hoxie, Asa
- Humpback whale
- Huntress (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Huntsville (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Improvement (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Indian Ocean--Description and travel
- Indigenous peoples
- Indigenous peoples--Sightings and encounters
- Indus (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Iris (Ship : 1818-1855)--Sightings and encounters
- Isaac Howland (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- James Maury (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- John Howland (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Juan Fern�andez Islands--Description and travel
- Juan Fern�ndez Islands--Description and travel
- Julian (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Killer whale
- Knowles, John Pepper,--1830-1891
- Lagrange (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Lancaster (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Laurens (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Leeuwin, Cape (W.A.)--Description and travel
- Leonore (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Levi Starbuck (Ship)
- Liverpool (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Logbooks
- London Packet (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- London Packet (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Magnolia (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Maio (Cabo Verde)--Description and travel
- Maria Theresa (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Marine accidents
- Mars (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Massachusetts
- Maui (Hawaii)
- Medicine, Naval
- Menkar (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Mental Illness
- Metacom (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Midas (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Mokil Atoll (Micronesia)
- Morea (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Morning Star (Bark)
- Mullen, William--Death and burial
- Murder
- Mutiny
- Narwhal (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Naturaliste, Cape (W.A.)--Description and travel
- Nauru--Description and travel
- Naval
- Navy (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- New Caledonia--Description and travel
- Newton (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Nimrod (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Norris, Howes, -1842--Death and burial
- North Pacific Ocean--Description and travel
- Oahu (Hawaii)
- Oahu (Hawaii)--Description and travel
- Okhotsk, Sea of
- Omega (Ship)
- Pacific (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Pacific (Ship : 1818-185)--Sightings and encounters
- Pacific Ocean--Description and travel
- Paita (Peru)--Description and travel
- Pearl (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Philetus (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Pico Island (Azores)--Description and travel
- Pleiades (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Poetry
- Pohnpei Island (Micronesia)--Description and travel
- Ponta Delgada (Azores)--Description and travel
- Porpoises
- Port Jackson (N.S.W.)--Description and travel
- Punishment
- Race relations
- Raduga (Ship)
- Randall, Charles S.,--b. 1824 --Webb, Isaac P
- Randolph, Edward F.
- Reindeer (Ship : 1853-1871)
- Richard Mitchell (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Ricketson, Barton
- Right Whales
- Rio de la Plata
- Robert Edwards (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Robert Morrison (Ship)
- Roman (Ship)
- Roman (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Roscoe (Bark : 1833-1859)--Sightings and encounters
- Rotuma Island (Fiji)--Description and travel
- Rousseau (Ship)
- Russell (Ship : 1833-1847)--Sightings and encounters
- Saint Paul Island (Terres australes et antarctiques francaises)--Description and travel
- Saint Paul Island (Terres australes et antarctiques fran�aises)--Description and travel
- Salvador (Brazil)--Description and travel
- San Cristbal Island (Galapagos Islands)--Description and travel
- Sao Miguel Island (Azores)--Description and travel
- Sawin, Ezekiel
- Seafaring life
- Shipwrecks
- Shiverick, Edward P
- Sightings and encounters
- Silsby, Thomas--Death and burial
- Slocum, George W.
- Smith, Henry,--shipowner
- Smith, Thomas Harlock, Jr.
- South Carolina (Ship : 1815-1852)--Sightings and encounters
- South Pacific Ocean--Description and travel
- Sperm whale
- Splendid (Ship)
- St. George (Ship : 1828-1876)--Sightings and encounters
- St. Peter (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Storms
- Suicide
- Suicide victims
- Swift (Ship : 1805-1863)--Sightings and encounters
- Sydney (N.S.W.)--Description and travel
- São Jorge Island (Azores)--Description and trave
- Tasman Sea--Description and travel
- Tempest (Bark)
- Tenedos (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Terceira Island (Azores)--Description and travel
- Thames (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Thomas Dickason (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Thorn (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Timor Island--Description and travel
- Triad (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Triton (Ship : 1816-1848)--Sightings and encounters
- Tumbes (Peru)--Description and travel
- Valparaíso (Chile)--Description and travel
- Venice (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Victory (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Voyages and travels
- W.C. Taber & Son
- Walrus
- Ward, John D.--Death and burial
- Warren (Ship)
- Whalebone
- Whale oil
- Whalers (Persons)
- Whalers (Persons)--Death
- Whales
- Whaling
- Whaling--Massachusetts--Fairhaven
- Whaling--Massachusetts--Fall River
- Whaling--Massachusetts--Nantucket
- Whaling--Massachusetts--New Bedford
- Whaling--Massachusetts--Westport
- Whaling masters
- Whaling masters--Death
- Whaling ships--Equipment and supplies
- Whaling ships--Maintenance and repair
- Wilhemina Suey (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- William and Eliza (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- William Hamilton (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Wind damage
- Windstorms
- Women and the sea