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Agent/Owner data added to American Whaling Voyages

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. For example, view the voyages …

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American and British Southern whaling data updated
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.

New Features and New Data added to WhalingHistory.org
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.

British Whaling data now available
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.

World’s Most Comprehensive Whaling History Database Released
The Whaling History website opened to the public on March 6, 2018, connecting all things whaling for researchers, scholars, genealogists, educators and students.