BRITISH SOUTHERN WHALE FISHERY VOYAGE AND CREW DATABASESThe Voyage and Crew databases are the heart of the British Southern Whale Fishery website. The Voyage database which is primarily the work of A G E Jones documents the events of over 2550 voyages to the south of Britain in over 900 different vessels. The Crew database which is primarily the work of Dale Chatwin contains over 15,750 entries for men who served in the British Southern Whale Fishery between 1775 and 1859. The datsets were last updated 2 February 2020. Access the BSWF Voyage Database Access the BSWF Crew Database Citation form for databases Research articles should properly acknowledge the research team which extracted and collated the data. Short citation:- BSWF Databases - A. G. E. Jones; Dale Chatwin; and, Rhys Richards Full citation:- Compilers - A. G. E. Jones (Tunbridge Wells, deceased); Dale Chatwin (Brisbane, Australia); Rhys Richards (Paremata, New Zealand) ** Contributors – Jane Clayton (Crete, Greece); Mark Howard (Melbourne, Australia) Acknowledgements for contributions to the Voyage or Crew List datasets:- Robert Warneke (Yolla, Tasmania), Judy Lund (Dartmouth, Massachusetts); Betsy Tyler (Nantucket Historical Association); and, Adrian Tschoegl (Philadelphia) have contributed information for specific voyages and profiles. Susanne Jenks undertook copying work of the crew lists in BT98 in the Public Record Office in London. Many thanks to Chris Maxworthy (Sydney, Australia) for the introduction. Dr Janet West and Martin Evans (Scott Polar Research Institute); Veronica Lisle for contributing crew list information. Jocelyn Chisholm (Wellington, NZ, Deceased), Kelvin Wilson (Netherlands) and Julie Papworth and Roger Stark (England), for biographies of relatives who served as masters of British whaleships. Thanks also to Tom Tyler (USA); Joan Druett (NZ); Dorothy Heinrich (Adelaide) for each contributing a Master’s biography. Myra Stanbury (Western Australia Museum) for contributing the very valuable biography on the Bennett family, owners in the BSWF. Gary L. Sturgess and Kenneth Cozens for other owner biographies. |