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  • Sources. Investigate the sources referred to in creating the American, French, and British North American voyage databases. Links are provided to scans of the original source materials when they are available online.
  • Logbook Repositories. Search a list of libraries, museums and other repositories of American Offshore Whaling logbooks.
  • Scanned Logbooks. Read almost 1,000 whaling logbooks that have been scanned.
  • Voyage Maps. View voyage maps drawn from logbook data.
  • Maury Abstract Logbooks. Browse an index to scans of the whaling logbook data gathered by James Maury in the 19th century. Voyages primarily from 1820 through 1855.
  • Dennis Wood Abstracts of Whaling Voyages. Search these summaries—compiled between 1830 and 1874—of more than 6,700 American voyages.
  • Women who went whaling. Find voyages on which the master’s wife sailed.