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American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database
Source(s) for Voyage of Ganges (Ship)
1853, Oct - 1857, Mar. Sailing from Nantucket, MA to Pacific. Sent home 850 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.
- Druett, Joan. "Women who went A-Whaling: an annotated list." New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.
- Stackpole, Edouard A. The Sea-Hunters: The Great Age of Whaling. Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1953.
- Downey, Judith M. Librarian, New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA. Personal communication.