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American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database

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

    1819, Jul - 1821, Apr. Sailing from Nantucket, MA to Brazil. Sent home 80 Sperm, 500 Whale, 1600 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.
    • Sherman, Stuart C., comp. Judith M. Downey and Virginia Adams, eds. with Howard Pasternak. Whaling Logbooks and Journals, 1613-1927: An Inventory of Manuscript Records in Public Collections. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, vol. 682. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1986.
    • Downey, Judith M. Librarian, New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA. Personal communication.
    • Banks, Charles Edward, M.D. The History of Martha's Vineyard. Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, 1966.

    Logbooks

    • Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, Massachusetts