Whaling Collections

Books contributed by New Bedford Whaling Museum.
[Alexander (Steam bark) of San Francisco, Calif., mastered by B.T. Tilton, keeper W.S. Varnum, on voyage 29 March 1898 – 7 December 1898],
Creator: Alexander (Steam bark), Varnum, W. S
[Belvedere (Steam bark) of San Francisco, mastered by M.V.B. Millard, on voyage 10 Mar. 1897-7 Nov. 1898]
Logbook of the Pantheon (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Weston Jenney, kept by George Nye, on voyage 15 May 1845 – 13 May 1849
Creator: Pantheon (Bark), Jenney, Weston, Nye, George
[Northern Light (Bark) of New Bedford mastered by Gilbert L. Smith and then Thomas Mellen and then West Mitchell, keeper Robert Conley, on voyage 10 October 1871 – 17 May 1880],
Creator: Northern Light (Bark), Conley, Robert J.--mate
[William Baylies (Steam bark) of San Francisco, Calif., mastered by S.F. Cottle, keeper George Fred Tilton, on voyage 10 March 1900 – 17 November 1900],
Creator: William Baylies (Steam bark), Tilton, George Fred,--1861-1932
Logbook of the Andrew Hicks (Bark) of San Francisco, Calif., mastered by Charles S. Church, kept by Charlotte E. Church (Mrs. C.S.), on voyage 6 December 1905 – 16 November 1906
Creator: Andrew Hicks (Bark), Church, Charles S., Church, Charlotte E.
Logbook of the Helen Snow (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by George H. Macomber, kept by Joseph S. Worth, on voyage from 1871 October 17-1872 August 19 (abandoned in Arctic)
[Logboook of the Alaska (Bark) of San Francisco, mastered by Charles W. Fisher, W.T. Macomber, B.B. Worth, and George W. Porter, on voyage from 4 Dec. 1890-8 Nov. 1891]
Logbook of the Avola (bark) and Emma C. Jones (ship), of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Zenas E. Bourne and Sylvanus B. Potter, kept by Andrew C. Briggs, on two voyages from 1867 October 26-1879 July 12
Creator: Avola (Bark), Emma C. Jones (Ship), Bourne, Zenas E., Potter, Sylvanus B., Briggs, Andrew C.
[Vermont (Bark) of Mystic, Conn., mastered by Jonathan Nash, keeper Thomas Barrett, on voyage 20 November 1843 – 14 April 1846],
Creator: Vermont (Bark)
[William Baylies (Steam bark), of San Francisco, Calif., mastered by Hartson H. Bodfish, kept by Hartson H. Bodfish, on voyage from 10 Mar. 1906-7 Nov. 1906]
Creator: William Baylies (Steam bark); Hartson H. (Hartson Hartlett), logkeeper
Date: January 1, 1906
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Subjects in this Collection
- --Abraham Barker (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- --Louisa (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- 1796-1882
- Accidents
- Acushnet (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Acushnet (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Adeline Gibbs (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Aladdin (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Alaska (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Alaska Natives
- Albacore
- Albatrosses
- Alcyone (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- Alejandro Selkirk Island (Juan Fern�ndez Islands)--Description and travel
- Alexander (Steam bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Anne Dymes (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Ann Mary Ann (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Ansel Gibbs (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Ansel Gibbs (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Arctic Ocean--Description and travel
- Arrest
- Arthur Pickering (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel
- Australia
- Australia (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Baack, Fred--Death and burial
- Balaena (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Balaena (Ship).--Sightings and encounters
- Balaena (Steam bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Barclay (Ship : 1819-1856)--Sightings and encounters
- Barrow, Point (Alaska)--Description and travel
- Bear (Ship).--Sightings and encounters
- Belle (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Beluga (Steam bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Belvedere (Ship : 1892-1907).--Sightings and encounters
- Belvedere (Steam bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Bering Sea--Description and travel
- Bertha (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Blackfish
- Blue whale
- Bone
- Bonito
- Bonzer (Schooner).--Sightings and encounters
- Borgia, Joe
- Bourne, J. Jr.
- Bourne, Jonathan,--1811-1889
- Bourne, Zenas
- Bowhead (Steam whaler)--Sightings and encounters
- Bowhead whale
- Brava (Cabo Verde)--Description and travel
- Burkhart, William
- Cabo San Lucas (Baja California Sur, Mexico)
- Cabo Verde
- Canton Packet (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Cape Smyth (Alaska)--Description and travel
- Cape Verde--Description and travel
- Carman, Robert
- Cassandra (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Chandler Price (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Charles (Ship : 1817-1855)--Sightings and encounters
- Charles and Henry (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Chronometers
- Chukchi Sea
- Church, Charles S
- Collisions at sea
- Commander Preble (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Connecticut
- Coral (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Corvo Island (Azores)
- Cottle, Stephen F.
- Crew lists
- Crown Prince (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Davis, William
- Death and burial
- Description and travel
- Desertion
- Desertions, Naval
- Diseases
- Dolphins
- Drawings
- Dromedary, Mount (Eurobodalla Shire, N.S.W.)
- Drowning
- Drowning victims
- Dutch Harbor (Alaska)--Description and travel
- Edwin Fox (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Efate (Vanuatu)
- Elizabeth Firth (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Endeavor (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Endeavor (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Endeavour (Bark : 1841-1873)--Sightings and encounters
- Enterprise (Ship : 1821-1858)--Sightings and encounters
- Faial Island (Azores)--Description and travel
- Falcon (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Fanning Island (Kiribati)
- Fatu Hiva (French Polynesia)
- Fearless (Steam bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Fenelon (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Finback whale
- Fisher, Charles W., whaling master
- Fisher, Thomas N .
- Flores Island (Azores)
- Flores Island (Azores)--Description and travel
- Fortitude (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Fox Islands (Alaska)
- Frances (Bark : 1845-1846)--Sightings and encounters
- George and Martha (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- George Brown (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- George Champlain (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- George Champlin (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- George Washington (Ship : 1832-1860)--Sightings and encounters
- Globicephala
- Golconda (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Gomes, Peter
- Good Hope, Cape of (South Africa : Cape)--Description and travel
- Governor Troup (Ship)--Sightings and encounte
- Grampus (Mammals)
- Grampus (Schooner).--Sightings and encounters
- Grampus (Steam barkentine)--Sightings and encounters
- Grant, Ulysses S.--(Ulysses Simpson),--1822-1885
- Guadalupe Island (Mexico)
- Guam--Description and travel
- Gustave (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- H. Liebes & Co
- Halmahera (Indonesia)--Description and travel
- Hanseat (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Harrison (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Havre (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Hawaii--Description and travel
- Helen Jane (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Henry (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Herschel Island (Yukon)--Description and travel
- Hier, Thomas--Death and burial
- Hochega (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Honolulu (Hawaii)
- Honolulu (Hawaii)--Description and travel
- Hoogly (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Hope (Bark : 1815-1862)--Sightings and encounters
- Horn, Cape (Chile)--Description and travel
- Huaheine Island (French Polynesia)
- Humpback whale
- Huntress (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Huntsville (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Ice
- Illustrations
- Indian Ocean--Description and travel
- Indigenous peoples
- Indigenous peoples--Sightings and encounters
- Indonesia--Description and travel
- Insubordination
- Inventories
- J. & W.R. Wing & Co. (New Bedford, Mass.)
- James Arnold (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Jane (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Jane (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Janie (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Janus (Ship : 1804-1865)--Sightings and encounters
- Japan, Sea of--Description and travel
- Java (Bark : 1857-1876)--Sightings and encounters
- Java 2nd (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Jeanette (Steam brigantine)--Sightings and encounters
- Jeannette (Ship).--Sightings and encounters
- Jenney, Weston
- Jireh Perry (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- John, William
- John P. West (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Joseph Maxwell (Bark)--Sightings and encounter
- Joseph Starbuck (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Journals (accounts)
- Juan Fernndez Islands--Description and travel
- Juan Fernâandez Islands--Description and travel
- Juan Fern�ndez Islands
- Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia)
- Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia)--Description and travel
- Karluk (Ship).--Sightings and encounters
- Karluk (Steam brigantine)--Sightings and encounters
- Kathleen (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Kayak Island (Alaska)
- Kealakekua Bay (Hawaii)--Description and travel
- Kenai Peninsula (Alaska)--Description and travel
- Killer whale
- Kodiak (Alaska)
- Kodiak Island (Alaska)
- Kutusoff (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- La Grange (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Lahaina (Hawaii)
- Lancaster (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Lewis (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Lewis, William
- Lewis, William--(Shipowner)
- Lexington (Ship : 1807-1809)--Sightings and encounters
- Lightning--Sightings and encounters
- Lindsay (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Lisbourne, Cape (Alaska)--Description and travel
- Lisburne, Cape (Alaska)--Description and travel
- Liverpool (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Logbooks
- London Packet (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Loum Snow
- Loum Snow & Son (New Bedford, Mass.)
- Lunar eclipses
- Macauley Island (Kermadec Islands)
- Macomber, George H.
- Macomber, W.T.
- Maggie Hill (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Maintenance and repair
- Mallory, Charles,
- Marcia (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Marcus (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Marine accidents
- Mariner (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia)--Description and travel
- Martha's Vineyard (Mass.)--Social life and customs
- Martha (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Martinique (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Mary and Susan (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Massachusetts
- Massachusetts (Ship : 1841-1871)--Sightings and encounters
- Mauritius--Description and trave
- McNeil, James
- Medicine, Naval
- Mellen, Thomas H
- Mercator (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Merlin (Bark)--Sightings and encounter
- Middleton Island (Alaska)
- Millard, M.V.B. (Bartin Van Buren)
- Minerva (Ship : 1816-1860)--Sightings and encounters
- Mitchell, West
- Mobile (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Mocha Island (Chile)--Description and travel
- Mogul (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Mohawk (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Mokil Atoll (Micronesia)--Description and travel
- Mount Wollaston (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Murder
- Mutiny
- Myra (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Mystic
- Narwhal (Steam bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Nash, Jonathan
- Naval Diseases
- New Bedford
- Newport (Steam barkentine).--Sightings and encounters
- New Zealand
- Niger (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Nome (Alaska)--Description and travel
- Northern Mariana Islands--Description and travel
- North Pacific Ocean--Description and travel
- Oahu (Hawaii)
- Oahu (Hawaii)--Description and travel
- Ocean (Ship : 1822-1869)--Sightings and encounters
- Ocmulgee (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Ohio (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Okhotsk, Sea of--Description and travel
- Olympia (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Oregon (Ship : 1841-1867)--Sightings and encounters
- Orlando (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Osprey (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Pacific (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Pacific Ocean--Description and travel
- Palmetto (Bark)--Sightings and encounter
- Panama (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Panama--Description and travel
- Penelope (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- Pioneer (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Pleiades (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Pocahontas (Ship : 1821-1857)--Sightings and encounters
- Pohnpei Island (Micronesia)--Description and travel
- Port Clarence (Alaska)--Description and travel
- Porter, George W., shipmaster
- Potter, Sylvanus B
- Punishment
- Rajah (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Raoul Island (Kermadec Islands)
- Rats
- Rescues
- Right Whales
- Robert Bourne (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Robert Brown (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Robert Morrison (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Rodman (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Roman (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Rosa Baker (Brig)--Sightings and encounter
- Russell (Ship : 1833-1847)--Sightings and encounters
- Sabbath
- Saint Lawrence Island (Alaska)--Description and travel
- Saint Paul Island (Terres australes et antarctiques fran�aises)--Description and travel
- San Carlos (Nuble, Chile)--Description and travel
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Description and travel
- San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906
- Sao Tiago Island (Cabo Verde)--Description and travel
- Sapphire (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Sarah Parker (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Sarah Russell (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Sea Breeze (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Seafaring life
- Sealing--California--San Francisco
- Seals (Animals)
- Selah (Bark)--Sightings and encounter
- Ships--Fire and fire prevention
- Ships Abandoning of
- Shipwrecks
- Skipjacks
- Smallpox
- Smith, Gilbert L
- Solomon Islands--Description and travel
- Sophie (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- South Carolina (Ship : 1815-1852)--Sightings and encounters
- South Pacific Ocean--Description and travel
- Spencer (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Sperm whale
- Squids
- Stafford (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Sulawesi (Indonesia)--Description and travel
- Sulu Archipelago (Philippines)--Description and travel
- Swift, Frederick 1852-1915
- Sydney (Australia)
- Talcahuano (Chile)--Description and travel
- Tasmania
- Tawitawi (Philippines)--Description and travel
- Ternate (Indonesia)--Description and travel
- Thrasher (Steam bark).--Sightings and encounters
- Tierra del Fuego (Argentina and Chile)
- Tilton, B.T
- Timoleon (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Tristan da Cunha
- Triton (Ship : 1816-1848)--Sightings and encounters
- Tumbez (Peru)--Description and travel
- Turtles
- Unalaska (Alaska)--Description and travel
- Vineyard (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Voyages and travels
- Walrus
- Wanderer (Bark)f.--Sightings and encounters
- Whalebone
- Whale oil
- Whalers' spouses
- Whalers (Persons)
- Whalers (Persons)--Death
- Whalers (Persons)--Health and hygiene
- Whales
- Whaling
- Whaling--California--San Francisco
- Whaling--Massachusetts--New Bedford
- WhalingCaliforniaSan Francisco
- Whaling masters
- Whaling ships
- Whaling ships--Abandoning of
- Whaling ships--Equipment and supplies
- White whale
- William Baylies (Steam bark).--Sightings and encounters
- William Lewis & Son (San Francisco, Calif.)
- Women's clothing--19th century--Indonesia
- Women's rights--19th century--Indonesia
- Women and the sea
- Worth, B.B.
- Yokohama, Port of (Japan)--Description and travel