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American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database

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

    1816, Aug - 1817, Nov. Sailing from Nantucket, MA to Coast of Guinea. Sent home 70 Sperm, 420 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.
    • Downey, Judith M. Librarian, New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA. Personal communication.
    • Coffin, Micajah. Journals of voyages on the Sloop Sandwich, 1762-1763. Providence Public Library, Providence, RI.