A. C. 1818. A voyage to Greenland. The Youth's Voyager and Evangelical Miscellany, March: 81-93. [Account of a voyage starting 14 Mar 1817 in whaleship King George, from London.] |
Adamson, P. ND. The great whale to snare: the whaling trade of Hull. Hull, Kingston upon Hull Museums and Art Galleries. [Well-illustrated and informative booklet on whaling information available in Hull musuems and libraries.] |
Anderson, A. 1801. An historical and chronological deduction of the origin of commerce, from the earliest accounts. In four volumes. Reprinted 1967 by Reprints of Economic Classics, New York. [Published originally in 1764 in two volumes, this work was edited and reissued in 1787-89 in three volumes, with an additional updating volume by William Combe. Contains many references to the whaling industry, particularly in volumes 2 to 4, drawing on contemporary sources. Frequently quoted, and at times amended, by Scoresby (1820).] |
Andrew, D. 2001. The whale fishery of Lynn 1774–1821. Lynn, True’s Yard. [Brief account of whaling from a small East Anglian port.] |
Anon. 1816-25. Accounts of the owners of whaling ships Neptune and Exmouth and of Capt. Martin Munroe with Wright, Bowden and Wright, and other accounts, 2 November 1816 – 31 March 1825. [Holograph in Hull Central Library.] |
Anon. 1836a. The vessels left in the ice. Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle 5 (47): 53-58. [Gives the text of a memorial from a group of Hull ship-owners and others to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty requesting a naval expedition to relieve whaleships caught in the sea ice of Baffin Bay.] |
Anon. 1836b. The vessels left in the ice. Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle 5 (47): 116-117. [Reporting the departure of HMS Cove from Hull Cove on 6 January 1836, to relieve whaleships caught in the sea ice of Baffin Bay.] |
Anon. 1836c. Narrative (in verse) of the loss and burning of the Mary Frances, of Hull, off Home Bay on the 26th of August 1835. By a boat steerer. Hull, W. Kennedy [A far from profound account, but useful in mentioning several other ships seen or spoken on the voyage] |
Anon. No date. An authentic narration of all the occurrences in a voyage to Greenland in the year 1772 in the Volunteer of Whitby. Durham, unknown publisher. [Title continues: 'Containing a particular account of all that happened during perilous though successful voyage, also a description of the islands of Orkney and Shetland, with several others, etc. with a description of Greenland …..Also a description of the different species of whales; all the various fowls...by a gentleman surgeon on the said ship.'] |
Archibald, E. H. H. 2000. The dictionary of sea painters of Europe and America. Woodbridge, Antique Collectors Club. [No whaleships featured, but useful illustrations of contemporary sailing ships.] |
Archibald, M. 2004. Whalehunters: Dundee and the Arctic whalers. Edinburgh, Mercat Press. [Whaling from Dundee, with particular emphasis on whalemen.] |
Arlov, T. B. 1994. A short history of Svalbard. Oslo, Norsk Polarinstitutt. [Compact introduction to geography and history, including three chapters on the development and decline of whaling.] |
Bacstrom, S. 1799. Account of a voyage to Spitsbergen in the year 1780. Philosophical Magazine 4:139-52. Also in Pinkerton's Collection of voyages - London 1808-14. [[Voyage in Rising Sun from London to Svalbard: accounts of the making-off process ashore in Magdalena Bay, and meeting Russian hunters at Smeerenberg.] |
Bain, J. (ed.) 1836. Sufferings of the ice-bound whalers. Edinburgh, Wm. Whyte and Co. Reprinted 1973 by K Book Editions, York. [Voyage to Davis Strait in 1835: the title continues:'Containing copious extracts from a journal taken on the spot by an officer of the Viewforth of Kirkcakdy, and embracing full details of the Jane of Hull and othe wreck of the Middleton of Aberdeen.' Includes the note: 'The season of 1835 will long be remembered as one of the most eventful and disastrous in the history of the whale fishing.' See also Elder 1835-36 and Cooke and Ross 1969. ] |
Baines, E. 1823. History, directory and gazetteer of the County of York. Vol 2 E and N Ridings. Leeds, Leeds Mercury Office. Reprinted 1969 by David and Charles, Newton Abbot. [Includes regional detailsof activities in Hull and Whitby relevant to their historical involvement in the whaling industry.] |
Barron, William. (1970). Old whaling days. Reprinted 1970 by Conway, Conway Maritime Press. [Whaling voyages from 1849 onward in Truelove and other ships, by a whaling master.]
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Barron, William. (1973). An apprentice's remniscences of whaling in Davis's Straits. Reprinted 1973 by K Book Editions, York. [First-hand accounts of mid-19th century whaling.] |
Barrow, Tony. 1989. The Newcastle whaling trade. Mariners Mirror 75(3): 231-40. [Summary based on PhD thesis: for more detailed account see Barrow (2001).] |
Barrow, Tony. 1989. The north-east coast whale fishery 1750-1850. PhD thesis, Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic. [History of whaling from Tyneside ports.] |
Barrow, Tony. 1998. The decline of British whaling in Arctic Canada 1820-1850: a case study of Newcastle upon Tyne. The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du nord 8(4): 35-54. [How difficulties in Davis Strait contributed to the decline in numbers of whalers sailing from British nort-east ports.] |
Barrow, Tony. 2001. The whaling trade of north-east England. Sunderland, University of Sunderland Press. [History of whaling from Tyneside ports Newcastle and North and South Shields: essential background reading.] |
Bell, Allerston. ND. Account book for unnamed ships… Also contains details of the charges for fitting out the Henrietta for the Greenland Seas begun Oct 1775 at Whitby and completed 1777. Unpublished MS in Whitby Museum Library. [Informative listing of whaleship accounts from the period of mid-century boom.] |
Beyerman, H. C. 1995. Walvisvaart, Wijnhandel & Schilderkunst de Rotterdamse reders. Amsterdam, De Bataafsche Leeuw. [Dutch account of Dutch whaling, wine-carrying and art.] |
Brandt, K. 1940. Whale oil: an economic analysis. (Fats and oils studies No. 7). Stanford, Food Research Institute, Stanford University. [Deals mainly with the period in which it was written, but with considerable historic interest and relevance.] |
Brinner, L. 1913. Die Deutsche Grönlandfahrt. Berlin, Karl Curtius. [History in German of Greenland voyages, including whaling from German ports.] |
Brujin, J. R. 1981. From minor to major concern, entrepreneurs in 17th century Dutch whaling. In: Holk, A. G. F. van.(editor): Groningen: Groningen Univ. Arctic Centre. [Account of the 17th century development of Dutch whaling] |
Buckley, J. No date. The outport of Scarborough 1602-1853: a maritime history. Unknown place, and publisher. [Mainly a history of the Scarborough Trinity House, its finances and role as a charitable fund for merchant seamen with scant references to whaling. Probably published by STH for circulation among its members] |
Cass, W. E. 1824. Hull whaler Brunswick. A journal of a voyage to Davis's Straits and Baffin's Bay with a brief description of those regions and the whale fishing. [Typescript of a jprivately-owned journal b the ship's surgeon. Covers the period 17 Mar to 21 June 1824: stops in 74*N near Duck I. at edge of fourth barrier. Includes description of Esquimaux and Danish settlements on Greenland coast. See Credland 1988.] |
Charlton, L. 1779. The history of Whitby, and of Whitby Abbey. York, A. Ward. [Mainly ecclesiastical history, with notes on whaling.] |
Clarkson, T. No date. An account of all the vessels employed in whale fishery from the commencement in 1753 to 1837 when it ended. The information is from a manuscript book kept by his fore-elders.[Unpublished typescript in Whitby Museum: one of several plausible listings that require authentication.] |
Claustre, D. 1982. 'The North-west Passage, or voyage finished': a polar play and musical entertainment. Polar Record 21 (131): 95-115. [Introduction and text of play wriiten by Parry for performance during 1819-20 expedition: includes references to whaleship Brunswick of Hull.] |
Coltish, W. ND. Manuscript of Whaling Statistics, 1772–1842. Unpublished typescript, transcribed in 1978 by A. G. Credland from ‘Whale fishery at Hull’, a notebook of whaling statistics, 1772–1841, and ‘An account of the success of the ships at the Greenland and Davis Straits fisheries from the year 1772 to the year1842, both inclusive. N. B. from the year 1772 to the year 1813 inclusive an account is given only of the Hull ships, but afterwards the whole of the ports are named.’ |
Conway, W. M. 1904. Early Dutch and English voyages to Spitsbergen. London, Hakluyt Society. [Classic account of the early whaling period around Spitsbergen: essential reading for students of the period.] |
Conway, W. M. 1906. No man's land; a history of Spitsbergen from its discovery in 1596 to the beginning of the scientific exploration of the country. Cambridge, Cambridge University press. [A useful companion volume to Conway 1904.] |
Conway, W. M. 1908. Some unpublished Spitsbergen MSS. Geographical Journal 15: 628-36. [Includes 'An account of Greenland by Capt. Lancelot Adamson, a Hull merchant who has made 33 voyages thither', dated 1660, and 'The manner of the whale fishing in Groenland, from Mr Gray.] |
Cooke, A. and Ross, W. G. 1969. The drift of the whaler Viewforth in Davis Strait, 1835-36, from William Elder's journal. Polar Record 14 (92): 581-91. [Includes cross-references to articles in Nautical Magazine, etc.] |
Credland, A. C. 1993. Marine painting in Hull through three centuries. Hull, Hull City Museums and Art Galleries and Hutton Press. [Well-illustrated review of marine paintings relating to Hull, based on civic collections, with notes on artists and ships. Includes many whaling ships and scenes.] |
Credland, A. G. (ed). 1988. The journal of Surgeon Cass aboard the whaler Brunswick of Hull 1824. Hull, Humberside Libraries and Arts. Humberside Pubs. 18. [Edited and illustrated version of Cass 1824.] |
Credland, A. G. 1995. The Hull whaling trade: an Arctic enterprise. Hull, Hutton Press. [Concise, well-illustrated history of whaling from Hull.] |
Davey, G. 1832. A narrative of the loss of the Shannon, of Hull, on the 26th of April 1832, on her passage to Davis' Strait. Hull, W. Stephenson. [Account by captain of being hit by an iceberg in 58°20'N: crew survived on the floating hulk until rescued by two Danish brigs.] |
Daw, G. F. 1925. Whale ships and whaling: a pictorial history of whaling during three centuries. Salem, Marine Research Society. [Concerned mostly with American sperm-whalers; good illustrations.] |
De Jong, C. 1983. The hunt of the Greenland whale: a short history and statistical sources. Reports of the International Whaling Commission: Special Report 5: 83-106. [Comprehensive account of North Atlantic bowhead whaling based largely on Dutch and German statistics, deploring the absence of equivalent compiled statistics from Britain, France, Spain and Denmark.] |
De Veer, G. 1876. The three voyages of William Barents to the Arctic regions (1594, 1595 and 1596). London, Hakluyt Society.[Accounts of voyages to Barents Sea in search of the northeast passage.] |
Dellenbaugh, F. S. (ed.) 1917. [See Explorers Club of New York 1917]. |
Dixon, C. 1976. The Exeter Whale Fishing Company 1754-87. Mariners' Mirror 62: 225-31. [Exposition of whaling by this company from Exeter during the mid-to-late century boom.] |
Dudley, N. and Clark, J. G. 1983. Thin ice. Cambridge, Marine Action Centre. [Discussion of Alaskan stocks of the Greenland Right Whale.] |
Dunbar, M. J. 1982. Arctic marine ecosystems. In: Rey, L. and Stonehouse, B. (editors). The Arctic Ocean: the hydrographic environment and the fate of pollutants: 233-61. [Development and characteristics of the Arctic marine ecosystems on which the whaling and sealing industries were based.] |
Dykes, J. 1980. Yorkshire’s whaling days. Clapham, Dalesman Books. [Some historical interest, many ripping yarns]. |
Eber, D. H. 1989. When the whalers were up north: Inuit memories from the eastern Arctic. Montreal, McGill University Press. [Contacts between whalers and Baffin Islanders from 1817 onward.] |
Elder, W. 1835-36. Overwintering in Arctic of Viewforth [Unpublished MS journal in 2 vols. [Account of overwintering in ice of Viewforth of Kirkcaldy: see also Bain (1836) and Cooke and Ross 1969.] |
Elking, Henry. 1772. A view of the Greenland trade and whale fishery, with the national and private advantages thereof. Reprinted 1980 by Whitby, Caedmon. [Early classic pamphlet that helped persuade the British Government to introduce a bounty scheme to support whaling.] |
Evans, Martin. 2005. Statutory requirements regarding surgeons on British whale-ships. The Mariner's Mirror 91(1): 7-12. [Review of legislation covering employment of surgeons on 18th and 19th century whaling ships.] |
Explorers' Club, New York. 1917. Seven log books concerning the Arctic voyages of Capt. William Scoresby Senior of Whitby, England. New York, the Explorers' Club. [Boxed volume of folios: limited edition facsimile presentation of logbooks for voyages of Henrietta commanded by Bean 1786, 1787, and by Scoresby 1791-95, with a short introduction by F. S Dellenbaugh and miscellaneous information on Wm. Scoresby Sen.'s career.] |
Fisher, A. 1819. Journal of a voyage of discovery to the Arctic regions, performed between the 4th of April and the 18th of November, 1818, in His Majesty’s Ship Alexander. Wm. Edw. Parry esq. Lieut. And commander. London, Richard Phillips. [Account of classic naval voyage to Davis Strait.] |
Fisher, A. 1821. A journal of a voyage of discovery to the Arctic regions, in His Majesty’s ships Hecla and Griper in the years 1819 and 1820. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. [Account of classic naval voyage to Davis Strait.] |
Fotherby, R. 1860. Narrative of a voyage to Spitsbergen 1613 at the charge of the Fellowship of English Merchants for the Discovery of New Trades; commonly called the Muscovy Company. Boston, American Antiquarian Society. [One of the earliest first-hand accounts of a whaling voyage, to Spitsbergen in the ship Mathew in 1613. Title continues: '…with a description of the country, and the operation of the whale fishery. Now first printed from the original manuscript. With an introduction and notes by S. F. Haven.] |
Fraser, F. C. 1949. Some letters of William Scoresby junior. Polar Record 5(37): 306-08. [Reviews copies of eight letters from Scoresby in the library of the British Museum (Natural History) one to Sir Joseph Banks, seven to Everard Home, a prominent London surgeon and anatomist, concerning anatomical specimens from Arctic whales.] |
Gambell, R. 1983. Outstanding whale assessment problems requiring analysis of historic data. Reports of the International Whaling Commission: Special Issue 5: 15-17. [Includes summary of current status of bowhead whales in the Arctic, at risk from human activities on the continental shelf.] |
Gauldie, E. 1987. The Dundee jute industry. In: Butt, J. and Ponting, K. (editors). Scottish textile history. Aberdeen, Aberdeen Univ. Press.[Account of the industry that kept Scottish whaling viable into the late 19th century.] |
Gordon, W. J. 1907. Round about the North Pole. New York, E. P. Dutton. [General popular account of Arctic exploration.] |
Gosche, C. C. A. (ed.). 1897. Danish Arctic expeditions, 1605-20. London, Hakluyt Society. [Details voyages by Hall and others to Greenland and in search of the northeast and northwest passages.] |
Graham, G. 1935. The migrations of the Nantucket whale fishery: an episode in British colonial policy. New England Quarterly: 179-202. [How whaling families from New England returned to Britain to establish whaling in Milford.] |
Gray, R. W. 1932-33. Peterhead sealers and whalers: a contribution to the history of the whaling industry. Scottish Naturalist [1932] 198: 131-33, 157-62; [1933] 199: 1-10, 33-38, 97-104: 129-38, 161-69. [Very readable account with emphasis on particular whalers.] |
Hacquebord, L. 1984. The history of early Dutch whaling: a study from the ecological angle. In: s'Jacob, H. K., Snoeijing, K. and Vaughan, R. (eds.) Arctic whaling: proceedings of the international symposium Arctic whaling, February 1983. Groningen, Arctic Centre, University of Groningen: 121–134. [History of 17th century Dutch Arctic whaling from Svalbard, examining evidence for climate shifts and possible effects on the industry.] |
Hacquebord, L. 1980. The Smeerenberg Project: an investigation of 17th century Dutch whaling settlements on Svalbard. Polar Record 20 (126): 284-87. [Report on long-term investigation of the Smeerenberg site.] |
Hepton, P. A. 1983. Profile: Captain William Wells. Polar Record 21 (133): 383-86. [Biography with portrait of the master of Truelove, the last whaleship to sail from Hull in 1869.] |
Hepton, P. A. 1984. Capt. William Wells and the last years of the Hull whaling fleet 1844-1869. Hull, Malet Lambert Local History originals Vol. 17.[Brief but interesting summary of the late whaling period.] |
Hepton, P. A. 1985. Sailings of the Hull whaling fleet from the port of Hull 1843-69. Malet Lambert Local History Originals Vol 24.[1821 was a disastrous season: from 61 ships, nine lost, also Earl Fauconberg from Grimsby, James of Newcastle, Larkins and Dexterity of Leith, and Elizabeth of Aberdeen.] |
Hjort, J. 1932. A brief history of whaling. Polar Record 1(3): 28-32. [Brief indeed, but comprehensive.] |
HM Stationery Office. 1968. National Maritime Museum Catalolgue of the Library. Vol. 1, Voyages and travels. London, HMSO. [Interesting reading, with many references to Arctic whaling, but for practical purposes almost entirely overtaken by the on-line catalogue.] |
Holland, C. 1970. William Penny, 1809-92. Arctic whaling master. Polar Record 15(94): 25-43. [Thoughtful account of Arctic whaling in 1820s and 30s: useful bibliography.] |
Hopkins, D. M. and Marincovich, L. Jr. 1984. Whale biogeography and the history of the Arctic Basin. In: s'Jacob, H. K., Snoeijing, K. and Vaughan, R. (eds.) Arctic whaling: proceedings of the international symposium Arctic whaling, February 1983. Groningen, Arctic Centre, University of Groningen: 7-24. [Palaeogeography, oceanography and whale biogeography of the Arctic basin and environs.] |
Howard, M. 1996. Coopers and casks in the whaling trade 1800-1850. Mariners Mirror 82(4): 436-50. [Comprehensive account of casks, their manufacture and materials, stowage, and the cooper's trade.] |
J. H. W. 1837. A narrative of the sufferings of the crew of the Dee while beset in the ice of Davis Straits during the winter of 1836; with other interesting and important particulars , drawn up from notes taken at the time by one of the seamen aboard. Aberdeen, unknown publisher. [Based on notes by seaman David Gibb.] |
Jackson, C. I. 2003. The Arctic whaling journals of William Scoresby the younger. Vol. 1. The voyages of 1811, 1812 and 1813. London, Hakluyt Society. [Informative introduction on Scoresby, followed by well-annotated edited versions of the three voyages. |
Jenkins, J. T. 1921. A history of the whale fisheries, from the Basque fisheries of the 10th century to the hunting of the finner whale at the present date. London, Witherby. Reprinted 1971 by Kennikat Press. [Comprehensive coverage, including chapters on 17th and 18th century Arctic whaling.] |
Jenkins, J. T. 1948. Bibliography of Whaling. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 2(4): 71-166. [Very extensive bibliography of worldwide whaling, including many obscure references to British Arctic whaling.] |
Jones, A. G. E. 1950. The voyage of HMS Cove, Captain James Clark Ross, 1835-36. Polar Record 5(40): 543-56. [Account of voyage by an experienced Arctic naval officer to relieve Viewforth and other whalers trapped in Davis Strait ice.] |
Jones, A. G. E. 1954. The whaling trade of Ipswich 1786-1793. In: Jones, A. G. E. (ed.) Polar Portraits: collected papers. Whitby, Caedmon of Whitby: 139-45. Reprinted from Mariners Mirror 1954, 40:297-303. [Port history based almost entirely on contemporary articles and notes in local papers.] |
Jones, A. G. E. 1983. Lloyd's List and the whaling trade 1750-1777. Mariner's Mirror 69 (1): 20. [Brief justifications of Lubbock's The Arctic Whalers, and for using Lloyd's Registry as a source of whaling voyages: see Jones 1996] |
Jones, A. G. E. 1992. Captain Robert Martin: a Peterhead whaling master in the nineteenth century. In: Jones, A. G. E. (ed.) Polar Portraits: collected papers 1992. Whitby, Caedmon of Whitby: 186-92. [Reprinted from Scottish Geographical Magazine 1969. [Includes detals of Peterhead whaling history and table of whaling and sealing returns 1788-1873.] |
Jones, A. G. E. 1992. Harry Mackay, master of the Terra Nova. In: Jones, A. G. E. (ed.) Polar Portraits, collected papers. Whitby, Caedmon of Whitby: 67-172. Reprinted from Antarctic 1973. [Dundee whaling master who sailed south in Terra Nova to help break Scott's Discovery out of McMurdo Sound ice.] |
Jones, A. G. E. 1992. Henry Mapleton, Staff Commander,RN. In: Jones, A. G. E. (ed.) Polar Portraits: collected papers. Whitby, Caedmon of Whitby: 181-85. Reprinted from Notes and Queries 1974. [Biography of naval officer who as second master in HMS Cove, under Capt. J. C. Ross, on a voyage of 1835-36 to relieve whaleships trapped in the ice of Davis Strait, contributed to an informative Master's Log.] |
Jones, A. G. E. 1992. High Arctic latitudes. In: Jones, A. G. E. (ed.) Polar Portraits: collected papers. Whitby, Caedmon of Whitby: 8-9. Reprinted from Notes and Queries 1951. [Includes a fanciful account of a visit to the North Pole by Capt. Wyatt in the whaleship Whale.] |
Jones, A. G. E. 1992. Polar Portraits. Whitby, Caedmon of Whitby. (A useful compendium republishing 40 articles, some in obscure journals, many of which refer to Arctic whaling.] |
Jones, A. G. E. 1992. The 18th century whaling trade of Bristol. In: Jones, A. G. E. (ed.) Polar Portraits: collected papers. Whitby, Caedmon of Whitby: 115-17. Reprinted from Notes and queries (NS) 1957. 4(6):258-60. [Brief summary of Bristol's involvement in Arctic whaling.] |
Jones, A. G. E. 1992. The steam yacht Discovery. In: Jones, A. G. E. (ed.) Polar Portraits: collected papers. Whitby, Caedmon of Whitby: 127-29. Reprinted from Mariners Mirror 1980. [Profile of an unfortunate ship - ill-conceived when built for Scott's first Antarctic expedtion (1901-04), subsequently 'an incubus to all who owned her', now a museum display in her home town of Dundee.] |
Jones, A. G. E. 1996. The Greenland and Davis Strait trade 1740–1865, from Lloyd's Register of Shipping and the Register of the Society of Merchants, Ship-owners and Underwriters. Cambridge, Bluntisham. [Catalogue of whaling ships, with details of rig, tonnage, where built, age, ownership, port of registry, destination and class, compiled from both registers. Useful, but on no account to be mistaken for a list of all whaling ships of the period.] |
Kane, E. K. 1854. The U.S. Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin; a personal narrative. London, Sampson Low. [Part of the extensive literature on the Franklin searches, of marginal whaling interest.] |
Kane, E. K. 1856. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. London, Trubner and Co. (2 vols). [Part of the extensive literature on the Franklin searches, of marginal whaling interest. |
Kelly, P. M., Karas J. H. W. and Williams, L. D. 1984. Arctic climate: past, present and future. In: s'Jacob, H. K., Snoeijing, K. and Vaughan, R. (editors): International symposium on Arctic whaling, Feb. 1983. Groningen, Arctic Centre, University of Groningen: 25-38. [Summary of factors shaping Arctic weather and climate, known shifts in climate during the current millennium, and possibilities of deriving more detailed evidence from whaling records.] |
Kid, W. No date. An authentick narration of all the occurrences in a voyage to Greenland in the year 1772 in the Volunteer of Whitby, Mr W. Coulson, Master. Durham, G. Sowler. [Informative journal.] |
Laing, J. 1815. An account of a voyage to Spitsbergen. London, J. Mawman. Reprinted 1973 by K. Book Editions, Allerthorpe. [Journal of 1806 voyage of whaleship Resolution, Capt. Wm Scoresby Sen, by surgeon. The ship had letters of marque, 9 boats, 60-70 men.] |
Lamb, H. H. 1982. The climatic environment of the Arctic Ocean. In: Rey, L. and Stonehouse, B. (editors). The Arctic Ocean: the hydrographic environment and the fate of pollutants: 83-96. [The physical basis of Arctic climate, and climatic variation on a range of time scales, stressing the extreme sensitivity of the the Greenland sea area (perhaps the world's most sensitive) to climate changes.] |
Lewis, C. 1983. Whaling from Great Yarmouth 1627-1797. Yarmouth Archaeology 1(5): no pagination. [Account of both pre- and post-bounty whaling from one of the pioneering ports.] |
Lubbock, B. 1937. The Arctic whalers. Glasgow, Brown, Son and Ferguson. [Very readable and probably mainly true account of British Arctic whaling, suspect because of its very few references to sources.See KEY REFERENCES for table of contents.] |
Mackintosh, N. A. 1965. The stocks of whales. London, Fishing News. A useful diagram on p 142 illustrates effects of hunting of black and Greenland right whales 1600-1900.] |
Macpherson, D. 1805. Annals of Commerce, Manufactures, Fisheries and Navigation. Nichols and Son … (and 16 others). London, Mundell and Son, Edinburgh. 4 vols 4o. [Title continues: [ , ... containing the commercial transactions of the British Empire and other countries, from the earliest accounts to ... January 1801; and comprehending the most valuable part of ... Mr. Anderson's History of Commerce, viz. from the year 1492 to the end of the reign of George II., etc.'. Like Anderson (1801), a miscellany of information on contemporary commerce, of great value to students of economic history. Includes many references to whaling; frequently quoted by Scoresby (1820)]. |
Manby. G. W. 1822. A journal of a voyage to Greenland in 1821. London, no publisher. [Voyage with W. Scoresby Jr. to test - with indifferent success - a patent harpoon gun.] |
Markham, A. H. 1880. The voyages and works of John Davis the navigator. London, Hakluyt Society, 1880. [Includes narratives of Davis's three Northwest Passage expeditions 1585-87, and of his voyage to the south seas under Thomas Cavendish, during which he discovered the Falkland Islands.] |
Markham, A. H. 1894. The great frozen sea. A personal narrative of the voyage of the Alert during the Arctic expedition of 1875-76.7th edition. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubne & Co. Ltd. [Account of Nares Expedition during which the author achieved then furthest north of 83°20'.] |
Markham, C. R. 1876. The threshold of the unknown region. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington. [History of Arctic exploration: useful emphasis on 19th century naval expeditions. See KEY REFERENCES for full reprint of Chapters 1-3] |
McCartney, A. P. 1984. History of native whaling in the Arctic and Subarctic.In: s'Jacob, H. K., Snoeijing, K. and Vaughan, R. (eds.) Arctic whaling: proceedings of the international symposium Arctic whaling, February 1983. Groningen, Arctic Centre, University of Groningen: 79-111. [The spread of native whaling methods, mainly from Alaska to west Greenland in 1000-1300 AD.] |
Mitchell, E. 1984. Ecology of North Atlantic Boreal and Arctic Monodontid and Mysticete whales. In: s'Jacob, H. K., Snoeijing, K. and Vaughan, R. (eds.) Arctic whaling: proceedings of the international symposium Arctic whaling, February 1983. Groningen, Arctic Centre, University of Groningen: 65-78. [Basic biology of north Atlantic and Arctic whales, including bibliography on aging and other research techniques.] |
Moore, S. E. and Clarke, J. T. 1991. Estimates of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) in the Beaufort Sea during late summer. Arctic 44: 43–46. [Attempts to count surviving remnants of the western stocks.] |
Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle: a journal of papers on subjects connected with maritime affairs. [A monthly journal devoted to maritime matters that began 1827 and ran through to the late 19th c. Most articles and notes are anonymous: several over the years concern Arctic naval and whaling expeditions (see individual entries). |
Oeasau, Wanda. 1937. Schleswig-Holsteins Gronlandfahrt auf Walfischfang und Robbenschlag vom 17.- 19.Jahrhundert. Gluckstadt-Hamburg, J. J. Augustin. [Whaling from S-H, including Altona, Apenrade, Beidenfleth, Brunsbuttel, Edenforde, Elmshorn, Flensburg, Fohr, Friedrichstadt, Gluckstadt, Husum, etc. In German, Gothic script] |
Oesau, Wanda. 1955. Hamburgs Gronlandfahrt auf Walfischfang und Robbenschlag vom 17.-19. Jahrhundert. Gluckstadt-Hamburg, J. J. Augustin. [Includes table at end showing numbers of voyages per year 1169-1861. In German] |
Ogilvie, A. E. J. and Jonsson, T. 2001. 'Little ice age' research: a perspective from Iceland. Climatic Change 48: 9-52. [p. 31.'…severe ice years (off Iceland) are documented in 1145, 1233, 1261, 1275, 1306, 1320, 1321, 1374, then not until 1552, 1564, 1566, 1567, 1568 and 1572. …From AFD 1600 (better data) 1640-80 relatively ice-free, in marked contrast to marked coldness of mid 17th century in Europe. Decades with most ice present during last 500 years were probably the 1780s, the 1810s and the 1830s. From 1840 to 1855, little ice off the Icelandic coast.] |
O'Reilly, Bernard. 1818. Greenland, the adjacent seas and the northwest passage to the Pacific Ocean, illustrated in a voyage to Davis Strait during the summer of 1817. London, unknown publisher. [Lively account of a whaling voyage that, despite the title, got no nearer than many others to the northwest passage.] |
Pivorunas, A. 1979. The feeding mechanisms of baleen whales. American Scientist 67: 432–40. [Behaviour and use of baleen in feeding.] |
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Rey, L. and Stonehouse, B. (editors).1982. The Arctic Ocean: the hydrographic environment and the fate of pollutants. London, Macmillan. [Compendium of 18 research papers, several of which include background information on the North Atlantic sub-Arctic whaling grounds.] |
Ross, W. G. 1975. Whaling and Eskimos: Hudson bay 1860-1915. National Museums of Canada Publications in Ethnology 10. [Based on a PhD dissertation, an account of interactions between Eskimo populations and British and American whalers in Hudson Bay. For summary see Key publications: Ross 1975.] |
Ross, W. G. 1979. The annual catch of Greenland (bowhead) whales in waters north of Canada, 1719–1915. A preliminary compilation. Arctic 32 (2): 91–121. [An early estimate of bowhead catches from the Davis Strait fishing grounds.] |
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Ross, W. G. and MacIver, A. 1982. Distribution of the kills of bowhead whales and other sea mammals by Davis Strait whalers 1829-1910. Arctic Pilot Project. No publication data. [Report of late-period kills based on analysis of logbooks and other records.] |
Rowley, G. 1970. Rear-Admiral Sir John Ross, RN, 1777-1856: archival material in the Scott Polar Research Institute. Polar Record 15(94): 61-62. [Mostly extracts from contemporary accounts by Cass, Duncan (beset 1826-27) etc.] |
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Sanderson, J. No date. A voyage from Hull to Greenland in the ship Samuel in the year 1789, etc. Hull, Briggs. [Account by ship's surgeon of voyage 25.3.1789 - 24.07.1789. Includes accounts of four Russian sailors who survived over 6 yrs on Spitsbergen 1743-49, and 8 UK sailors from 'Salutation' who wintered June 1631-May 1632.] |
Sanger, C. W. 1980. The 19th century Newfoundland seal fishery and the influence of Scottish whalemen. Polar Record 20 (126): 231-51. [Scottish participation in the newfoundland seal hunt 1876-1900.] |
Sanger, C. W. 1985. The origins of the Scottish northern whale fishery. PhD thesis, University of Dundee. [Thesis from which several subsequent Arctic whaling research papers are derived.] |
Savours, A. 1960. Journal of a whaling voyage from Dundee to Davis Strait, 1894. Polar Record 10(65): 126-37. [Account of 1894 voyage of Eclipse from Dundee, probably by seaman named Redgrave, found among Bruce papers in SPRI.] |
Savours, A. 1959. An Arctic whaling journal of 1791. Polar Record 9(63):534-45. [Journal by George Kerr, surgeon of Aberdeen whaler Christian. Article lists other ships seen.] |
Scoresby, W., Jr. 1823. Journal of a voyage to the northern whale fishery, including research and discoveries on the eastern coast of West Greenland, made in the summer of 1822, in the ship Baffin of Liverpool. Edinburgh, Constable. [Account of Scoresby's whaling voyage westward from Svalbard, to chart part of the northeast coast of Greenland.] |
Scoresby, William Jr. 1820. An account of the Arctic region with a history and description of the north whale fishery. 2 vols. Edinburgh, Archibald Constable. Reprinted 1969 Newton Abbot, David and Charles. [A classic of Arctic literature: essential reading for anyone interested in the Arctic and early Arctic whaling.] |
Scoresby, Wm. Jr. 1984. Journal of a Greenland or whale-fishing voyage. Whitby, Caedmon press. [Facsimile of 1823 log in Baffin of Whitby, Scoresby's final voyage, including survey of east Greenland coast.] |
Sergeant, D. E. 1965. Exploitation and conservation of harp and Hood Seals. Polar Record 12(80): 541-52. [Includes map showing breeding areas of this species on the West Ice.] |
Sheppard, T. 1919. The Hull whaling trade. Mariner's Mirror 5(6): 162-78. [Brief account of the industry, including illustrations of Harpooner, Thornton and other whaling ships] |
Sheppard, T. 1920. Whaling relics. Mariner's Mirror 6(5): 142-49. [Mainly carved teeth, narwhal tusks and other artefacts recently deposited in Hull museums.] |
Sheppard, T. 1939. The old Dutch Whalers. Mariner’s Mirror 25(1): 49-61. [Well-illustrated but mistitled article on tombstones of German whalers on the North Friesian island of Föhr.] |
Sheppard, T. and Suddaby, J. 1906. Quarterly record of additions, No. XVI. Hull whaling relics. Hull Museum Publications 30. [Further fragments of whaling memorabilia.] |
Sherman, S. C. 1965. The voice of the whaleman. Providence Public Library, Providence. [Characteristics of logbooks, journals and other documents relevant to whaling, with particular reference to bowhead whaling in the western Arctic.] |
Sherman, S. C. 1983. The nature, possibilities and limitations of whaling logbook data. Reports of the International Whaling Commission: Special Issue 5: 35-39. [Analyses informationrelating to whales, weather conditions and the size of the whaling fleet to be found in logbooks from the western Arctic Ocean.] |
Sherman, S. C., Downey, J. M. and Adams, V. M. 1986. Whaling logbooks and journals 1613–1927: an inventory of ms records in public collections. New York, Garland. [Identifies 5,018 ms logbooks and journals held in 82 public collections located throughout the world. |
s'Jacob, H. K., Snoeijing, K. and Vaughan, R. (eds). 1984. International symposium on Arctic whaling, Feb. 1983. Groningen, Arctic Centre, University of Groningen. [Important collection of 12 papers on the history and current status of Arctic whaling: see individual entires, most of which have useful bibliographies.] |
Smith, C. E. 1922. From the deep of the sea: an epic of the Arctic. London, A. and C. Black. Reprinted 1922: Edinburgh, Paul Harris Publishing. [Account of the 1866-67 voyage of whaleship Diana.] |
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Stackpole, E. A. 1972. Whales and destiny. The rivalry between America, France and Britain for control of the southern whale fishery, 1785-1825. Amherst, University of Massachussetts Press. [Includes an account of the start of Milford Haven whaling from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.] |
Stacpole, E. A. 1953. The sea hunters. New York, Bonanza Books. [Popular account of North American whaling.] |
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Sutherland, G. 1993. The whaling years: Peterhead (1788-1893). Aberdeen, Centre for Scottish Studies. [Well-illustrated popular account.] |
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Thomson, C. 1847. The autobiography of an artisan. London, unknown publisher. [The author was for a time a ship's carpenter in the Greenland trade.] |
Tillman, M. F. and Donovan, G. P. (eds.). 1983. Special issue on Historical whaling records. Reports of the International Whaling Commission: Special Issue 5. [Report on the International Workshop on Historical Whaling Records, convened by the International Whaling Commission in 1977 at Kendall Whaling Museum, Sharon, Mass. USA, including several key papers on Arctic whaling records and stocks of bowhead whales.] |
Troup, J. A. (ed.). 1987. The ice-bound whalers: the story of the Dee and the Grenville Bay, 1836-37. Stromness, Orkney Press. [Includes useful article by Troupe on impacts of Arctic whaling on Orkneys, whaling from Kirkwall etc. Also transcripts of Gibb's (qv) account of overwintering in Dee, and Wilson and Twatt's (qv) account of overwintering in Grenville Bay.] |
Tuck, J. A. 1985. Unearthing Red Bay's whaling history. National Geographical Magazine 168(1): 50-57. [Discovery in Labrador of a 16th century Basque whaling port and sunken fleet.] |
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Vaughan, R. 1984. Historical survey of the European whaling industry. In: s'Jacob, H. K., Snoeijing, K. and Vaughan, R. (editors): International symposium on Arctic whaling, Feb. 1983. Groningen, Arctic Centre, University of Groningen: 121-34. [Important review of European whaling in Greenland and Davis Strait, including Danish-Greenlandic inshore hunting along West Greenland and Basque operations in Newfoundland, as well as the better-documented shipborne trade.] |
Vaughan, R. 1986. Bowhead whaling in the Davis Strait and Baffin Bay during the 18th and 19th centuries. Polar Record 23:289–99. |
Vinje, T. E. 1982. The drift pattern of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean with particular reference to the Atlantic approach. In: Rey, L. and Stonehouse, B. (editors). The Arctic Ocean: the hydrographic environment and the fate of pollutants. London, Macmillan: 83-96. [Surface water and ice movements over the former Greenland and Davis Strait whaling grounds.] |
Vinje, T. E. 1984. On the present state and the future fate of the Arctic sea ice cover. In: s'Jacob, H. K., Snoeijing, K. and Vaughan, R. (editors): International symposium on Arctic whaling, Feb. 1983. Groningen, Arctic Centre, University of Groningen: 39-56. [Discusses variability of sea ice distribution in the North Atlantic sector, including conclusions to be drawn ftom contemporary model simulations.] |
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Whittaker, I. 1984. Whaling in classical Iceland. Polar Record 22(138): 249-61. [Includes complaint that 'Spanish and French fishers' pursued whales off western Iceland during 18th century. |
Wilson, R. and Twatt, T. [1836]. Remarks on board the ship Grenville Bay of Newcastle on Tyne. [Typescript in Stromness museum describing overwintering: see Troup. J. A. 1987.] |
Woodmancy, W. Jun. 1836. Remarks on a voyage from Hull to Davis' Straits in the whale ship Dordon, Capt. Willis, commander, in the eventful and perilous year 1835. Hull, G. Wilkinson. [Long and full account of loss of Dordon in ice, October 1836. |
Young, D. 1964. By the name of Young: a story of men and ships. SPRI Archives Ms 837; D. [Typescript copied from an original MS in Montrose Public Library. Account of several masters who sailed from Leith, Arbroath and Montrose. First whaler was Alexander (1750-1817), master of Raith (Leith). Sons Alexander (b. 1782) and John (b. 1789) were masters of Eliza Swan 1806-26 and Monarch. |
Young, G. 1817. A history of Whitby and Streoneshalh Abbey, 2 vols. Whitby, Clark and Medd. ['… with a statistical survey of the vicinity to the distance of 25 miles'. Mainly ecclesiastical and social history with notes on whaling.] |
Zorgdrager, C. G. 1723. Alte und neue Gronlandische Fischerei und Wallfischfang. Leipzig, Peter Conrad Monath. Reprinted 1975, Kassel, Horst Hamecher. [Accounts of whaling from Hamburg, Bremen, Lubecke, Emden, Schleswig-Holstein, Hannover, Oldenburg.] |
