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American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database

  • Source(s) for Voyage of Aerial (Bark)

    1851, May - 1852, Jun. Sailing from Fall River, MA to Atlantic. Sent home 310 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.
    • 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.
    • "Fall River in the Whale Fishery." "Falmouth in the Whale Fishery." "Providence in the Whale Fishery of the Past." "Somerset in the Whale Fishery." "Record of Newport Whaling Ships." "Bristol in the Whale Fishery." New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA, Scrapbook 17. Undated clippings from unidentified newspapers.
    • Works Progress Administration. Ship Registers of Dighton-Fall River, Massachusetts 1789-1938. Boston: National Archives Project, 1939.
    • "Sailors of Sullivan near Death." unidentified newspaper, n.d. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA. Scrapbook T4, p.135.
    • Jan Parmentier, University of Ghent (pers. comm.): from a presentation entitled "From the Davis Straits to the Falklands: Nantucket Whaling during the period 1772-1777," given at the annual Whaling History Symposium sponsored by the Kendall Institute and New Bedford Whaling Museum, 15-16 October 2005