OTHER NEW ENGLAND WHALING PORTS WHALING IMPLEMENTS AND WHALEBOATS DIFFERENT SPECIES OF WHALES AND THEIR PRODUCTS METHODS OF CAPTURE AND "TRYING OUT" DECLINE OF WHALING AND THE CAUSES AN ACCOUNT, sailing ship page decoration PRINTED FOR THE Copyrighted 1915 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 |