Whaling Collections
Books contributed by New Bedford Whaling Museum.
[Aeronaut (Whaling ship) of Mystic, Conn., mastered by B.F. Holmes, keeper unknown, on voyage 13 October 1845 – 14 August 1848],
[Agate (Brig) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Joseph Spooner, keeper John M. Tripp, on voyage 31 October 1840 – 25 March 1841],
[Alaska (Bark), of New Bedford, Mass.; mastered by Charles W. Fisher, kept by Thomas F. Pease on voyage from 14 Sept. 1880-1 Nov. 1884].
[Albatross (Ship) of Plymouth, England, mastered by Arthur Farquhar, keeper P.M. Rattent, on voyage 15 February 1847 – 28 September 1850],
[Albion (Ship) of Fairhaven, Mass., mastered by John E. Coggeshall, keeper John E. Coggeshall, on voyage 6 May 1833 – 13 April 1834],
[Alexander (Brig) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Benjamin C. Blossom, keeper John C. Freeman, on voyage 6 July 1886 – 27 September 1887],
[Alexander (Ship : 1821-1858) of Nantucket, Mass., mastered by Samuel Bunker, keeper unknown, on voyage 24 July 1824 – 17 June 1827],
[Alexander (Steam bark) of San Francisco, Calif., mastered by B. T. Tilton, keeper W. S. Varnum, on voyage 5 April 1900 – 5 November 1900,
[Alexander (Steam bark) of San Francisco, Calif., mastered by B. T. Tilton, keeper W.S. Varnum, on voyage 16 March 1899 – 11 November 1899],
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Subjects in this Collection
- --Drinking of alcoholic beverages
- 1796-1882
- Acasta (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Accidents
- Addison (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Adonis (Schooner)
- Africa
- Ambergris
- Annob�n (Equatorial Guinea)--Description and travel
- Arctic Ocean--Description and travel
- Argentina
- Ascension Island (Atlantic Ocean)--Description and travel
- Atlantic Ocean
- Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel
- Atlas (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Atlas (Ship : 1793-1828)
- Balaena (Ship).--Sightings and encounters
- Barbados--Description and travel
- Bartholomew Gosnold (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Baseball
- Bear (Ship).--Sightings and encounters
- Beluga (Steam bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Belvedere (Ship : 1892-1907).--Sightings and encounters
- Blossom, Benjamin C
- Bourne, Jonathan,--1811-1889
- Bowhead (Steam bark).--Sightings and encounters
- Bowhead whale
- Brava (Cabo Verde)
- Brazil
- Bunker, Samuel
- Cabinda (Angola : Province)--Description and travel
- Cabinda Bay (Angola)--Description and travel
- Cabo San Lucas (Baja California Sur, Mexico)
- Cape Nome (Alaska : Cape)--Description and travel
- Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)--Description and travel
- Cape Verde--Description and travel
- Carriacou Island (Grenada)--Description and travel
- Celia (Ship)
- Ceres (Ship : 1804-1849)--Sightings and encounters
- Charles Platt (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- Charles W. Morgan (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Chatham Islands (N.Z.)
- Chatham Islands (N.Z.)--Description and travel
- Chile
- Cicero (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Clay (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Collisions at sea
- Commodore Decatur (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Commodore Morris (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Commodore Perry (Ship)
- Commodore Rodgers (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Connecticut
- Constitution (Ship)
- Corvo Island (Azores)
- Courier (Ship : 1817-1861)--Sightings and encounters
- Cyrus (Ship)
- Deer hunting
- Description and travel
- Desertion, Naval
- Dido (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Diligence (Schooner)
- Diomede (Alaska)--Description and travel
- Diomede Islands (Alaska and Russia)--Description and travel
- Diseases
- Dolphins
- Draco (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Dragon (Brig)
- Drowning
- Drowning victims
- Dutch Harbor (Alaska)--Description and travel
- East Indies
- Electra (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Emerald (Whaling ship)--Sightings and encounters
- England
- Equator (Ship)
- Equipment and supplies
- Factor (Ship)
- Faial (Azores)--Description and travel
- Faial Island (Azores)
- Faial Island (Azores)--Description and travel
- Falcon (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Fanning Island (Kiribati)
- Fanny (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Farquhar, Arthur
- Favorite (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Fearless (Steam bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Finback whale
- Fisher, Charles W., whaling master
- Flores Island (Azores)
- Flores Island (Azores)--Description and travel
- Fogo (Cabo Verde)
- Food preferences
- Foot--Amputation
- Fortune (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Fortune (Ship : Maine)
- Frances (Ship : 1824-1846)
- Frances (Ship : 1824-1846)--Sightings and encounters
- Francis A. Barstow (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Frostbite
- Gallant (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- General Scott (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- George and Susan (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Gibraltar
- Globe (Ship : 1824-1851)
- Globicephala
- Good Hope, Cape of (South Africa : Cape)
- Gray whale
- Greenland--Description and travel
- Guam
- Hand-to-hand fighting
- Harriet (Ship)
- Hawaii
- Herman Smith (Brig)--Sightings and encounters
- Hero (Ship : 1802-1859)
- Heroine (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Herschel Island (Yukon)--Description and travel
- Holmes, Benjamin Franklin
- Hope On (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Huahine Island (French Polynesia)
- Hudson Bay--Description and travel
- Humpback whale
- Hurricanes
- Ice
- Improvement (Ship)
- Indian Ocean
- Indigenous peoples
- Inventories
- Isaac Hicks (Ship)
- Isabela Island (Galapagos Islands)
- Islands, Bay of (N.Z.)--Description and travel
- James Munroe (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Janus (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Japan.
- Jeannette (Ship).--Sightings and encounters
- Jones (Ship : 1830)--Sightings and encounters
- Josephine (Ship : 1856-1876)--Sightings and encounters
- Karluk (Ship).--Sightings and encounters
- Kathleen (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Keef, Charles--Death and burial
- Kerguelen Islands--Description and travel
- Killer whale
- Kingston (Jamaica)--Description and travel
- Kiribati
- Korluk (Ship).--Sightings and encounters
- Lady Hamilton (Ship)
- Lagos (Portugal)
- Lahaina (Hawaii)
- Leeward Islands (Federation)
- Leonidas (Ship : 1816-1852)--Sightings and encounters
- Lewis, Thomas
- Lewis, William--(Shipowner)
- Logbooks
- Lorentzen, A. P
- Louisa (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Luanda (Luanda, Angola)--Description and travel
- Maintenance and repair
- Mallory, Charles,
- Marble Island (Nunavut)--Description and travel
- Marine accidents
- Martha (Ship : 1810-1849)
- Mary (Ship)
- Massachusetts
- Medicine, Naval
- Mental Illness
- Midas (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Mustique (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)--Description and travel
- Mystic
- Nantucket
- Narwhal (Steam bark)--Sightings and encounters
- New Zealand--Description and travel
- Nome (Alaska)--Description and travel
- Ocean (Ship : 1822-1869)
- Ocean travel
- Ontario (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Osmanli (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Ospray (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Pacific (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Pacific (Ship : 1818-1855)
- Pacific Ocean--Description and travel
- Pernambuco (Brazil)
- Peru
- Peters.--Sightings and encounters
- Pico Island (Azores)
- Plymouth
- Point Hope (Alaska)--Description and travel
- Porpoises
- Port Clarence (Alaska)--Description and travel
- Portways (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- President (Bark : 1811-1880)--Sightings and encounters
- Punishment
- Rescues
- Right Whales
- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)--Description and travel
- Roscoe (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Sabotage
- Saint Helena--Description and travel
- Saint Vincent--Description and travel
- Sal (Cabo Verde)--Description and travel
- Sally Ann (Ship)
- Santa Luzia Island (Cabo Verde)
- Santa Maria Island (Azores)
- Sao Nicolau Island (Cabo Verde)
- Sao Vicente Island (Cabo Verde)
- Sawin, Ezekiel
- Seabury, A. H.--(Alexander Hamilton),--1806-
- Seafaring life
- Sealing--Massachusetts--New Bedford
- Seals (Animals)
- Sea Ranger (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Ships
- Ships--Equipment and supplies
- Sightings and encounters
- Snell, Moses L
- Snowblindness
- Society Islands (French Polynesia)
- South Carolina (Ship : 1815-1852)--Sightings and encounters
- Sperm whale
- Sperm whales
- Spooner, Joseph--(Shipmaster)
- St. Michael (Alaska)--Description and travel
- St. Peter (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Stafford (Bark)--Sightings and encounters
- Stanton (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- Stanton Howland (Ship)
- Stowaways
- Suicide
- Suicide victims
- Sultan (Ship)
- Swordfish
- S�o Nicolau Island (Cabo Verde)--Description and travel
- S�o Tiago Island (Cabo Verde)--Description and travel
- Tahiti (French Polynesia)
- Tenerife (Canary Islands)--Description and travel
- Thrasher (Steambark)--Sightings and encounters
- Thrasher (Steam bark).--Sightings and encounters
- Tilton, B.T
- Treeland (Schooner)
- Turtles
- Two Brothers (Ship : 1816-1858)--Sightings and encounters
- Voyages and travels
- Walrus
- Welcome (Schooner)--Sightings and encounters
- Weymouth (Ship)
- Whaleboats
- Whalebone
- Whale oil
- Whalers' spouses
- Whalers (Persons)
- Whalers (Persons)--Death
- Whalers (Persons)--Health and hygiene
- Whalers (Persons)--Wounds and injuries
- Whales
- Whaling
- Whaling--California--San Francisco
- Whaling--Massachusetts--Fairhaven
- Whaling--Massachusetts--New Bedford
- Whaling masters
- Whaling masters--Health and hygiene
- Whaling ships
- Whaling ships--Equipment and supplies
- Whaling ships--Maintenance and repair
- White Oak (Ship)--Sightings and encounters
- White whale
- William Baylies (Steam bark).--Sightings and encounters
- William Howland (Ship)
- Wilson, William--Death and burial
- Wind damage
- Windstorms
- Women and the sea
- Wounds and injuries