Whaling logbooks and other documents, 1820-1902

PMB 772

fonds

Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]

440986

Microfilm : PMB 772

microfilm reel 35 mm

Includes records of following ships: Europa, memo of Captain Barker, 1880 (includes references to islanders in Kingsmill Group i.e. southern Gilbert Islands); California, 1901-1902; Abraham Barker, 1871-1875 (whale drawings, captain's wife on board, Governor taken to Halapai, Tonga); Albatross USS, 1899 (Record of Agassiz Exploring Expedition); sketches, watercolours and photographs of landfalls; of islanders, tools, boats, etc.; encounters with missionaries and royalty including Tupou II of Tonga; disease in the islands; pearl diving at Kikueru); Aurora, 1858-1860; Pioneer, 1851-1854; Watkins, outfit for whaling voyage, n.d.; Dauphin, record of voyage in poem form, 1820-1822 (good descriptions of ports); rescued survivors of Essex off Cape Horn, 1821 Feb. 23); California, 1851-1854; and a list of ships and barques, 1830-1876

PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 772
Filmed for the New England Microfilming Project
Available for reference
Microfilm copy of originals held by John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
No part of the contents of this microfilm may be reproduced in any way without the written permission of the holding institution
Robert Langdon, ed. American whalers and traders in the Pacific, 1978; and Robert Langdon, ed. Where the whalers went, 1984