French Whaling Voyages

This data for French whaling comes primarily from digitization of Thierry DuPasquier’s tables from his two books documenting that country’s whaling trade. The data was confirmed and augmented by the generous contributions of Peter Tremewan who shared his translations of French maritime documents from the Archives Nationales, in Paris. As is true of most whaling data, spellings of names is dependent on the documentation originally handwritten by government clerks.

Complete information about the content and structure of the database is available in the original published sources, listed here: Database Description. You are encouraged to submit additions and corrections through the submission form.

Click on any row to display voyage details, including links to crew lists and tracking charts when available. Small subsets of the data may be printed or downloaded directly from the table below. Read The Data Viewer Interface for instructions. For research purposes, the complete database may be downloaded for processing on your local computer.

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