A database of Australian Colonial Whaling Ship Voyages from 1805 through 1898 is now available on WhalingHistory.org. The database lists the voyages made by the whaling vessels that were owned, registered or based in Australian ports.

This Australian Colonial Whaling Ship Voyages database lists the voyages made in the nineteenth century by the whaling vessels that were owned, registered or based in Australian ports. A few British whalers are also included, some due to the fact they were temporarily based in an Australian port and others because they were owned, or part-owned, …

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The British Southern Whale Fishery voyage and crew datasets have been updated with 900 amended or new whale oil cargo entries. This represents almost one-third of all known British Southern voyages. The updates have been sourced from the ledgers of the London Gauger held at the London Metropolitan Archives.

American Offshore, Scottish Arctic and British Southern whaling databases have been updated for 2024. The American voyages database now includes more 18th century voyages and wives of whaling masters as well as many corrections and updates to existing voyage entries. The American crew list database includes several hundred additional lists. The Scottish Arctic and British Southern databases have been updated and expanded.

When the the main site search is not specific or flexible enough for your needs, use the data viewers. Each database has its own data viewer—a tabular display window to interact with the data—and all of the data viewers share a common set of features.

“This table contains the Latitudes and Longitudes of the most remarkable Harbors, Islands, Shoals, Capes, &c., founded on the latest and most accurate astronomical observations, surveys, and charts.” This database contains 3,300 selected geographic place entries from the 1861 edition of Nathaniel Bowditch’s New American Practical Navigator. Place names are transcribed exactly as they appear …

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Annual updates for 2021 are now live for the American Offshore and British Southern whaling databases. The British Southern data has been thoroughly revised; the American Offshore Whaling Voyages data has more than 1,000 corrections and improvements, plus more than 370 new voyages, mostly from the 18th century.

Agent/Owner entries have been added or updated for more than eight thousand American Offshore Whaling voyages. Now there are agent/owner entries for more than two-thirds of the fifteen thousand voyages in the database. This makes it possible to view the voyages credited to a single agent/owner together in search results.

Annual updates are now live for the American Offshore and British Southern whaling databases, including more than 3,500 new crew list entries for 155 American voyages.

Integrating map, census, and American Offshore Whaling Voyages data, Mattapoisett Data Stories invites exploration of life in the shipbuilding village of Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, in the late 1700s and mid-1800s through interactive maps and visualizations.

WhalingHistory.org has been greatly expanded in the past year, to include whaling data from more countries, links to scanned documents online, and a new global search.

WhalingHistory.org is now hosting two important data sets documenting British whaling. The databases contain voyage and crew information for the British Southern Whale Fishery, which operated from 1775 to 1859.

At the heart of the site are nine interrelated databases. Three of them relate to American offshore whaling: one describing every known voyage from the 1700s through the 1920s, another transcribing location information from whaling logbooks, and the third containing crew lists for these voyages. Two of the databases relate to the British Southern Whale …

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The Whaling History website opened to the public on March 6, 2018, connecting all things whaling for researchers, scholars, genealogists, educators and students.

Additional data sources related to whaling history at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, Mystic Seaport Museum and other institutions. Tools for logbook readers.

This table from logbook entries includes information from logbooks from American offshore whaling voyages. These data were extracted from the original whaling logbooks during a scientific research project conducted by a team from the Census of Marine Life project (CoML, www.coml.org) led by Tim Denis Smith between 2000 and 2010.

This map showing the spatial distribution of American Whaling and Whales in the 17th to 19th century was created using the AOWL data.

The data presented here were collected as part of the History of Marine Animal Populations project, within the Census of Marine Life project. They include daily information on the location of whaling vessels throughout individual voyages, from a sample of logbooks kept on board individual vessels. Included are location, whaling activity, encounters with whales, including …

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The data presented here are from Charles Haskins Townsend’s extractions from whaling logbooks. They include information on the location of whales based on a sample of logbooks from voyages made between 1784 and 19?? The data represent roughly half of those originally used by Townsend to create whaling charts. Townsend extracted data on the location …

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The data presented here are from Charles Haskins Townsend’s extractions from whaling logbooks. They include information on the location of whales based on a sample of logbooks from voyages made between 1784 and 19?? The data represent roughly half of those originally used by Townsend to create whaling charts.