American Whaling Logbook data

Logbook page kept on board the whaling ship Aeronaut of Mystic, Conn., on a voyage to the South Atlantic whaling grounds. Mystic Seaport HFM 61

The American Offshore Whaling Logbook database, contains records transcribed from whaling log books giving information on the whales seen and captured. This database consolidates information from three projects, below, and adds data transcribed by Dale Chatwin, primarily for British Southern Whale Fishery voyages.

By Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Fontaine Maury in the 1850s
By Charles Haskins Townsend in the 1930s
By a team from the Census of Marine Life project (CoML, www.coml.org) between 2000 and 2010.

Where Whalers Encountered Whales 1784–1920

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