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American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database

  • Source(s) for Voyage of Union (Schr)

    1856, - 1856, . Sailing from Provincetown, MA to . Sent home Sperm, Whale, 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.
    • 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.
    • Cabral, Reginald W. and James Theriault. Wooden Ships and Iron Men. Provincetown, MA: Trustees of The Heritage Museum, 1994.