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American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database

  • Source(s) for Voyage of Superior (Ship)

    1833, Oct - 1837, Apr. Sailing from New London, CT to Pacific. Sent home 2650 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.
    • Batchelder, Charles F. Whaleship Index. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA, 1960. Card file.
    • Wood, Dennis. "Abstracts of Whaling Voyages, 1831-1873." Microfilm copy from the original manuscript held by the New Bedford Free Public Library, New Bedford, MA, 1981.
    • Colby, Barnard L. For Oil and Buggy Whips. Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., 1990.
    • Auction Catalog. East Dennis, MA: Robert C. Eldred & Co., Inc., November 20 and 21, 1998.
    • Barthelmess, Klaus. "Additions to Sherman." 1994. Kendall Collection, New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.Typewritten list.
    • Furtado, Tina. Special Collections Librarian, New Bedford Free Public Library, New Bedford, MA. Personal communication.
    • Owen, Leander C. Journal of Steam Bark North Star, March 3, 1882-September 16, 1882. Privately owned.
    • Tilton, James A. Logbook of a voyage on the Schooner A. M. Nicholson, 1920-1920. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.
    • Annual Report, 2000. New Bedford, MA: New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2001.