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Captain's papers : a log of whaling and other sea experiences West, Ellsworth Luce 1965 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 639.245.1(744)
Scottish Arctic whaling / Chelsey W. Sanger. A detailed account of the Scottish Arctic whaling industry based on a study of primary sources, including government reports, whaling company statistics, harbour registers, crew agreements, log books and diaries. The author's research also included a study of newspaper articles which provided detailed reports on each year's 'whaling window', defined by the departure and return of the fleet. The author's research suggests that whaling vessels sailing from 16 Scottish ports captured close to 20,000 bowhead whales on the hunting grounds at East Greenland, Davis Strait and Baffin Bay between 1750 and 1900, eventually depleting stocks to an uneconomic level. Crews faced hazardous weather conditions, disease, injury and death. The book is arranged chronologically following the industry's growth from its early development to ultimate collapse. The text is supported by analysis of the vessels, their home ports and catch as well as photographic plates, detailed notes and bibliography. 2016 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 639.245.1(411)
The Tregurtha log : relating the adventurous life of Capt Edward Primrose Tregurtha : the Napoleonic Tregurtha, Edward Primrose 1980 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 656.61
Papers of the Hobart whaling conference : 6-7 May 2019 /editors: Graeme Broxam and Dale Chatwin. "The Inaugural Hobart Whaling Conference held in Hobart in May 2019 and hosted by the Maritime Museum of Tasmania sought to harvest the enormous amount of personal research which occurs outside of the funded university research scholarship and academic system. In addition to contributions by Australian whaling and sealing researchers the conference attracted papers by three British researchers and three New Zealand researchers. The range of topics explored whaling and sealing around Australasia and the Pacific by the British and Colonial Whale and Seal Fisheries. And through American contributions were not sought the Conference still managed to accommodate two papers related to American whaling - one on the American presence in Hobart in the 1840s and 1850s and the other on US bay whaling rock art left behind in norht-western Australia in the 1840s. In this volume you will find three papers on British Southern Whale Fishery. One on whaling to the north of Australia around Indonesia and New Guinea; the second, based on newly uncovered logs, on the remarkable whaling career of British whaling master, James Choyce; and the third on British south sea whaling surgeons who's importance as skilled observers and commentators is becoming ever more significant. This is followed by a three Colonial (Australian and New Zealand) papers including a project to create Track Charts for whaling voyages where no log exists; a paper on the Waiopuka Fishery based at Kaikoura in the 1840s; and a 'viewing' and discussion of the 'Whangamumu Whaling Film' made in the 1930s which sought to re-enact using original whalemen the techniques of chasing and taking humpback whales from open boats. Five papers on Tasmanian and Hobart whaling include a paper seeking to establish the true scale of Tasmania whaling; an examination of the story of Tasmanian whaling presented in popular 'histories'; a look at the whaling and sealing interests of Tasmanian George Meredith; a paper on the activities of the American Consul in Hobart in the 1840s and 1850s; and a paper examining Norwegian interests in the 1920s and 30s when they found Hobart a useful base of Antarctic whaling. Sealing papers include some preliminary thoughts on three Sydney based entrepreneurs from very early days in the Colony including JOhn Grono and a paper on the involvement of the Australian sealer Richard Siddins on the South Shetland Islands. Moving back to whaling the Proceedings final papers include an in-depth examination of whaling in Western Australian from drift to modern whaling and lastly a paper examining British whalers as collectors of cultural and natural history artefacts and specimens. All in all a tremendously varied and unique set of papers on what was the first Colonial industry."--Provided by the publisher. [2020?]. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
Moore" and other 19th century whaling accounts / Samuel Grant Williams, J. Ross Browne, Capt. "In 1873, 21-year-old Sam Williams embarked on a whaling journey on the two-masted F.H. Moore--he steered one of the smaller boats and when in range threw the harpoon. During the 16-month voyage, he kept a personal log and later reworked it into this never-before-published manuscript, now supplemented by additional research and relevant excerpts of the official logbook of the ship. Complementing this are excerpts from three other accounts of whaling voyages: 'Incidents of a Whaling Voyage' by Francis Allyn Olmstead (1841), the oldest in this collection; 'Etchings of a Whaling Cruise' by J. Ross Browne (1846), an expose of the whaling industry; and 'The Gam: Being a Group of Whaling Stories' by Capt. Charles Henry Robbins (1899), a personal story of nearly an entire life at sea. The four accounts open the 19th century world of whaling to modern readers in a realistic and unromantic way and illuminate the current worldwide debate on whaling."-- 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 639.245.1(73)"18"
The nightmare voyage of the Diana : from the journal of the ship's surgeon, Charles Edward Smith /introduction by Marsali Baxter. "The whale ship, Diana, left Lerwick in early May 1866, bound for the Greenland whaling. Thirteen of the crew would perish after the ship was trapped overwinter in the Arctic ice. The toll included nine Shetlanders, two of whom died as the ship arrived in Ronas Voe, and three more in the next few days. The journal of the ship's surgeon, Charles Edward Snith, is an astonishing record of endurance, against the odds, written as the ship was battered and crushed by the "nips" with the crew wasting from starvation and the hideous effects of scurvy. "If the ship is in trouble in the nips, and expected to be stove in at any minute, how can I sit down to this log with my heart in my mouth, and a horrible death staring us in the face?" Yet write he did, scribbling this "poor log" with a pen that "trembles in my hand". No wonder!"--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 639.245.1(98)
Bullen's voyages : the life of Frank T Bullen ; sailor, whaler, author /Alston Kennerley. "Frank Bullen burst on the national and international popular literary scene at the end of the nineteenth century like a supernova which shone for the first decade or so of the next century and then was gone. But the memory of that brilliance lasts, like his fictional whaling epic, The Cruise of the Cachalot, into the present; this is a book still in print in any number of editions. Bullen's Voyages is a long overdue tribute to that memory, focusing on the sea career which is so prominent in his writing. Of the era of his youth he wrote that 'those were the days when boys in Geordie colliers or East Coast fishing smacks were often beaten to insanity and jumped overboard, or were done to death in truly savage fashion, and all that was necessary to account for their non-returning was a line in the log to the effect that they had been washed or had fallen overboard'. It was a brutal world, and a close examination of maritime records shows that the bullying, two shipwrecks and the tropical illnesses he describes so vividly, really occurred before he was even fifteen; and those were just the start. Hardly a voyage passes without similar dramatic episodes. But disentangling truth from fiction is not always easy. At one level The Cruise of the Cachalot is undoubtedly fiction, and there are unanswered questions about his young life as a 'street arab', as he once described himself. Yet Rudyard Kipling could write in 1898 of Cachalot 'it is immense... I've never read anything that equals it... such real and new sea pictures'. Though Bullen conceals the names of several of his ships, this new biography reveals their real identities, while the author carefully distinguishes the fact and the fiction through his sea-going career. Bullen, who wrote more than thirty books, is second to none in his remarkable writing about the days of sail and the lives of merchant seafarers. A literary commentator writing in 1917, two years after his death, asserted: 'Perhaps no writer has ever written so graphically or so sympathetically of the trials and dangers incurred by our merchant sailors than Frank Bullen, and his books today are a living witness to the courage and loyalty of our mercantile marine'. This elegant and highly readable biography is the first to describe his extraordinary life, and Bullen's own vivid writing colours every page."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available.