Notes, Logs, Statistics etc.'Notes' details the Fields used in the Voyage and Crew databases and provides background information on the fishery. 'Logs' collects all known (manuscript and published) records of voyages in the BSWF. The Bibliography lists other key published sources. Statistics records government and private statistics of the period.
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Notes, Logs and Statistics
Notes and AcknowledgementsThe BSWF Voyage database draws extensively on data contained in Volumes 1 to 3 of Ships Employed in the South Seas Trade by A. G. E. Jones, indexed by Ian Nicholson and typed and prepared for publication by Mr. Jones sister, Gwyneth Jones.
Thanks are also due to Jane Clayton who compiled her own list of pre-1815 voyages to aid her own research and contributed information to 315 entries. Grateful thanks to Graeme Broxam (Hobart, Tasmania) of the Roebuck Society and Navarine Press for permission to re-purpose the original data. The Crew List database of over 16,000 entries was created by Dale Chatwin. Image: South Sea Whale Fishery by W J Huggins - Collection of Dale Chatwin Read more here ... |
List of Logs and BibliographyA rough list of logbooks, published personal accounts and other first hand contemporary records of voyages (updated March 2022) made by British whalers to the south seas arranged alphabetically under the name of the whaleship.
Read more here ... The bibliography (updated March 2022) draws on earlier bibliographies by Jenkins (1948) and Forster (1985 & 1991) as well as other works published subsequently. The majority of entries are for published books and articles. Read more here ... A poem published in 1836 about whaling in the south seas. Read more here ... Image: Page from the Log of the Coronet - Nantucket Historical Association |
Statistics of the BSWFThe outputs of the British Southern Whale Fishery were monitored and well documented by both the Government and private concerns. A strong set of statistical data exists from around 1800 until the Government lost interest in the trade in the late 1830s.
Image: A trypot of 180 gallons manufactured by C. Seal - London. Now in a private collection. Read more here ... |