Publications relevant to the study of the BSWF

Ships Employed in the South Seas Trade 1775 - 1861 by A G E Jones

Contains transcriptions and indexes to south seas departures, ‘speakings’ and arrivals from Lloyd's List.  Also included are entries for south sea ships from the Registrar-General of Shipping and Seamen's 'Registers of Shipping' as well as two articles on the nature of the British Southern Whale and Seal Fisheries.
Roebuck Series publication no. 36. 294 pp; 104 pp of indexes.   AUD$25
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Ships Employed in the South Seas Trade 1775 - 1859 Volume 3 by A G E Jones

Contains the final part of Jones’ work on the British Southern Whale Fishery.  Including an introductory sketch of the trade; a series of annual reviews; a long series detailing the movement in the price of whale oil; cargoes for ships in the trade prior to 1815 prepared by the Enderby's and, post 1816 compiled from the Customs Bills of Entry ; information on the expenses incurred during preparation for, and outfitting of a whaling voyage and; statistical tables compiled by contemporary observers inside and outside of the whaling trade.  
Published by Navarine Press as Roebuck Series publication no. 53. 165 pp; AUD$30.
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London and the Whaling Trade. Edited by Chris Ellmers and Charles Payton.

London’s Arctic and South Sea Whaling trades employed hundreds of ships and many thousands of men and consumed capital resources worth millions of pounds both directly and in related supported services.  The proceedings  covers a  wide range of subjects including the merchants involved in the trade, the Greenland Dock, the uses of the produce from the whale and some of the whales that were stranded in the River Thames.
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Sealing in the Southern Oceans by Rhys Richards

A global review of the southern sealing fishery using previously unexplored sources of the trade, which shows that sealers killed at least 7 million seals prior to 1833, which is far more than previously estimated.;  
Published by Paremata Press.  278 pp;  NZD$70. 
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Ships Employed in the South Seas Trade 1775 - 1859 Volume 2

Contains transcriptions and indexes to South Seas whaling ships in Lloyds Register of Shipping Part I); Admiralty Protections from Impressment (Part II) ; and, Aspects of the South Seas Trade (PartIII). 

Roebuck Series publication no. 46. 720 pp

Out of Print

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