Whale Fishery of New England

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FOREWORD

CONTENTS

THE WHALE

ANCIENT HISTORY OF WHALING

EARLY NEW ENGLAND WHALING

NANTUCKET

NEW BEDFORD

OTHER NEW ENGLAND WHALING PORTS

ABOARD A "BLUBBER HUNTER"

WHALING IMPLEMENTS AND WHALEBOATS

DIFFERENT SPECIES OF WHALES AND THEIR PRODUCTS

METHODS OF CAPTURE AND "TRYING OUT"

THE PERILS OF WHALING

THE "CATALPA" EXPEDITION

DECLINE OF WHALING AND THE CAUSES

WHALING OF TO-DAY

AN ACCOUNT,
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND SOME INTERESTING AND AMUSING
ANECDOTES, OF THE RISE AND FALL OF AN INDUSTRY
WHICH HAS MADE NEW ENGLAND FAMOUS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

sailing ship page decoration

PRINTED FOR THE
STATE STREET TRUST COMPANY
BOSTON, MASS.


Copyrighted 1915
by the
State Street Trust Company

The vignette on the title-page is reproduced from a print of the ship “Maria” of New Bedford, which in 1853 was the oldest whaleship owned in the United States. Her registry was dated 1782. She was built in Pembroke, now called Hanson, for a privateer during the Revolutionary War, and was bought in the year 1783 by William Rotch of Nantucket, afterwards of New Bedford. At one time she was owned by Samuel Rodman, and also by the Russells. In construction she was the typical whaleship of her time. It is said that she earned for her owners $250,000 and made twenty-five voyages, bringing back a full cargo each time. The tailpiece is from a very old print which represents whaling in the seventeenth century.

Compiled, arranged and printed
under the direction of the
Walton Advertising and Printing Company
Boston, Mass.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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