Rochester_1832

British Southern Voyage

WRI	BV074600
Vessel	Rochester
Master	Price
Departure	1832-01-20
Return (days)	1835-05-09 (1206)
Port (dock)	London
Destination	Timor
East/ West	East
Owner (Agent)	Hill & Co.
Cargo	550 casks
Sources	SST1; SST2
Reports	Reported 4 May 1832 at 21 S x 29 on 5 March 1832; spoken by the Cheviot off Roti Island (near Timor) with 300 barrels; spoken by the Argus in the northern end of the Timor Strait 10 August 1832; anchored at Kemar 7 February 1833; at the Bonin Islands eighteen months out 22 July 1833 with 1000 barrels spoken by the Harriet; at the Bonin Islands mid 1834 suggesting two seasons (1833 and 1834) on the Japan Grounds; reported 3 April 1835 at St Helena 12 February 1835

British Southern Vessel (1)
British Southern Crew (3)

	Vessel	Rig	Built	Date Built	Tonnage Old (New)
	Rochester	Ship	Cowes	1831	392

First	Last	Voyage	Depart	Birthplace	Age	Role	Next Served	Seaman's Ticket
???	???	Rochester_1832	1832	Scotland		Seaman?	Tory
Daniel	Brasier	Rochester_1832	1832	Rotherhithe	18	Boatswain	Fawn	31095
Henry	Price	Rochester_1832	1832	Dorsetshire	32	Master	Diana

Search help

Limiting your search

The dropdown menus beside the Search button will limit your search to a single database or single entity (masters, vessels...) You can use either dropdown separately or both together.

Multiple words

The search engine treats multiple words as if they were combined with AND. For example, if you enter

Morgan Charles

you will find any records that contain both

Morgan

AND

Charles

, in any order.

Stemming

Words you enter are automatically treated as 'stems', that is, as if there were a wildcard at the end. So, if you enter

whal

you will find records containing

whale

whaleboat

whalers

, or

whaling

. This also works with dates. Entering

will match all years in the 1830s.

Exact match

To match an exact phrase, enclose in quotation marks, for instance,

"Charles W. Morgan"

Case-insensitive

Searches are not case-sensitive.

Punctuation

Punctuation marks are anathema. If you want to search for something that includes punctuation, enclose your search in quotation marks.

Search Results

Results tabs: Click on any tab Voyage (52) to display a table of results.
Full records are available: Click on the icon at the left edge of any search result to view the full record.
Sort by columns: Click on any column heading (Destination△▽) to sort results by that column. Click again to reverse the sort order.

Share Whaling Resources

Every item in the databases has a Whaling Resource Identifier (WRI).
Click on the "Click to copy…" button below any WRI to copy its URL to your Clipboard.
Share in email, Twitter, Facebook, WordPress… by pasting from your Clipboard (ctrl-P or cmd-P).

Code tables and Column definitions

For each database there is a page with values for codes and abbreviations used in the tables as well as definitions and usage information for each database column. Find it through the Databases entry in the main menu.

Advanced search: Data Viewers

Researchers who want more sophisticated data management capabilities should explore the Data Viewers available for each database. Data Viewers are listed under the Databases main menu entry. There is also a Getting Started page that explains how to use all Data Viewer features: The Data Viewer Interface.

Search within individual columns or combine searches in multiple columns
Sort by any column or by multiple columns
View or hide columns, and access every column available in the data
Select a set of records for copying or printing
Download a set of records to the desktop

Data Downloads

Data files and supporting material for most databases are available for download from the Download Whaling History Data page.