Whaling ship account books, logs and other documents, 1789-1920

PMB 829

fonds

Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]

441013

Microfilm : PMB 829

microfilm reel 35 mm

Records of the following ships: Mermaid, 1883-1885; Minnesota (log), 1866-1868; Morning Light, 1856-1857; Bertha, 1913-1920; Bertha D. Nickerson, 1913-1920; Margarett, 1913-1920; Mystic, 1913-1920; Nye, 1868-1873; Wanderer, 1913-1920; Russell (log-not whaling), 1849-1850; Napoleon 1868-1872; Olive Branch (log), 1851; Oread, 1860-1861 includes a description of the wreck of the President on West coast of Africa by J. T. Enos, 1904 May; case relating to the burning of the Robert Edwards, by Thomas P. Pease, 1870, "A lecture given by your great grandfather about his experiences hunting whales..." (ship Milo, 1843); Charles Hitch & Son- "Sail loft Blotter", 1854; Oil sales book, 1880-1882; a spasmodic list of ships, New Bedford, giving arrival dates, places of sailing, masters times absent, ports of origin, 1831-1832; and oil invoices of William Rotch Jnr, 1789-1796

PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 829
Filmed for the New England Microfilming Project
Available for reference
Microfilm copy of originals held by Kendall Whaling Museum, Sharon MA 02067
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