Whaling logs collection [textual record]

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Whaling logs collection [textual record]

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Date:

1873-1910.

Reference:

R3782-0-4-E, MG29-A58

Type of material:

Textual material

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Item ID number:

98203

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Whaling logs collection
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Collection includes:

6 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1873-1910.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

70 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of ship's logs; Mate's log; Narrative logs; private logs; Workbook; Manuscripts.

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Whaling Logs

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Whaling Logs : Arctic whaling and sealing vessels operated out of Dundee, Scotland from ca. 1750-1912, the most active period being in the last thirty years of the nineteenth century when the city's jute industries provided a ready market for whale oil. During this time a number of the auxiliary steamers, either built on the River Tay or operating from Dundee Whales, acquired remarkable reputations as whalers and sealers, often captained by legendary figures. One or two such men, like William Adams Senior, and Henry McKay, had an unrivalled knowledge of active navigation and were instrumental in the forwarding of polar exploration. Andrew Barclay Walker, owner of a famous steamer, the ESQUIMAUX, which frequently caught in excess of 20,000 seals per season on the Newfoundland grounds, used the vessel as an exploration tool in 1899 and published his account through the Liverpool Printing and Stationary Co. the following year under the title The Cruise of the ESQUIMAUX, steam whaler, to Davis Strait and Baffin Bay, April-October 1899 (96 p., illus.).

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid provides a listing of ships' logs, masters' logs, mates' logs, and other material. MSS1362 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001787.pdf

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Acquired in 1980 with the assistance of a Canadian Cultural Properties grant from the Department of Communications.
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Whaling - Newfoundland, 1884-1908 Esquimaux (Ship), 1891

Whaling - Davis Strait (N.W.T.), 1884-1908 A. Barclay Walker, 1898-1899

Sealing - Newfoundland, 1884-1908 William Adams, 1901-1908

Sealing - Davis Strait (N.W.T.), 1884-1908 Laura (Ship)

Whaling ships, 1884-1908 "The Cruise of the Esquimaux Steam Whaler, to Davis Strait and Baffin Island"

Log-books, 1884-1908 Davis Strait (N.W.T.), 1884-1908

Barents Sea, 1898-1899

Novaya Zemlya, 1898-1899

Baffin Island (Nunavut)
Source:

Private

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MG29-A58
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Date modified:: 2023-07-20

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Whaling logs collection [textual record]

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