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American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database

  • Source(s) for Voyage of Otter (Brig)

    1827, Sep - 1828, . Sailing from Nantucket, MA to Africa. Sent home 0 Sperm, 0 Whale, 0 Bone

    • Works Progress Administration. Whaling Masters: Voyages 1731-1925. New Bedford, MA: Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1938. Annotated copy located at the New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.
    • Starbuck, Alexander. History of the American Whale Fishery from its Earliest Inception to the Year 1876. 1876. Reprinted Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1989.
    • Batchelder, Charles F. Whaleship Index. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA, 1960. Card file.
    • Auction Catalog. New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., The Barbara Johnson Whaling Collection: Part IV, December 16 and 17, 1983.
    • Downey, Judith M. Librarian, New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA. Personal communication.
    • The Bulletin from Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford, MA: New Bedford Whaling Museum. Summer, 2007.