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Find your ship, & the full list of ships logbooks for OWW

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2020 9:42 pm
by AvastMH
Welcome to the list of whaler journeys.
Blue lettering indicates a link to another section of OWW or an whaling information external site.

NBWM: New Bedford Whaling Museum - a fascinating site with a rich collection. You can take an e-trip around the museum PPL: The Providence Public Library, Nicholson Whaling Collection (an outstanding collection of 750 manuscript logbooks describing 1,000 whaling voyages, as well as several thousand printed books on whaling)

Each ship has three streams, A, B, and C for the three sets of transcriptions required for each logbook.
The 'available?' column shows if a ship has sections awaiting transcription 'Yes', or has been fully completed in all three streams 'No'.
To find more details of the log, and its availability, please go to the relevant Shipyard. We will concentrate on the logs, and especially the sections of logs, involving waters in the North Pacific to Arctic oceans in the first instance.

Shipyard Link Start date End date Available?
Alaska 1890, Apr. 12th 1891, Dec. 6th Finished
Alexander 1899, Mar. 3rd 1899, Nov. 11th Finished
Atlantic 1880, Nov. 2nd* 1881, Oct. 31st Finished
Beluga 1895, July 7th 1895, Dec. 31st Assigned
Beluga 1897, March 30th 1899, Oct. 4th Finished
Belvedere 222 1897, March 9th 1898, Nov. 5th Finished
Belvedere 545 1897, March 9th 1898, Sept. 21st Finished
Belvedere 1884-5 To come
California KWM 1894-5 1894, Dec. 6th 1895, Nov. 7th Finished ice
California PPL 1894-5 1894, Dec. 4th 1895, Nov. 7th Assigned
Cape Horn Pigeon 1891-1892 1894, Dec. 4th 1892, Nov. 5th Assigned
Coral 1886-1888 1894, Nov. 6th 1888, Oct. 25th Yes
Emma Herriman 1890, Dec. 4th 1891, Oct. 24th Assigned
Fleetwing 1891, April 16th 1891, Nov. 5th Finished
Grampus 1891, April 14th 1891, May 23rd Finished
Hunter 1882 1882, Dec. 26th 1883, Nov. 10th Finished ice
Hunter 1893 1893, Feb. 15th 1893, Nov. 7th Yes
James Arnold 1892-1894 1892, January 21st 1894, October 6thAssigned
John Carver 1894-1895 1884, May 6th 1885, Nov. 11th Finished ice
Lucretia 1882-1883 1882, Dec. 15th 1883, Nov. 15th Finished
Lucretia 1883-1884 1883, Dec. 11th 1884, Nov. 4th Finished Ice
Lucretia 1884-1885 1884, Nov. 29th 1885, Nov. 5th Finished Ice
Mary and Helen 1879, Sept. 9th 1880, Oct. 12th Finished Ice
Mary and Susan 1887, April 21st 1887, Nov. 3rd Assigned
Mermaid 1896, March 17th 1896, Nov. 9th Yes
Narwhal 1892-1893 1892, March 12th 1893, Dec. 31st Assigned
Narwhal 1894 1894, January 1st 1894, Oct. 29th Assigned
Navarch 1892-1893 1892, July 6th 1893, Nov. 24th Finished ice
Navarch 1893-1896 1893, Dec. 20th 1896, Nov. 1st Finished ice
Navarch 1897 1897, Mar. 2nd 1897, Oct. 14th Assigned
North Star 1881, Aug 2nd 1882, July 16th Finished
Orca 1897 1897, March 30th 1897, Sept. 18th Finished ice
Stamboul 1892 1892, March 15th 1892, Oct. 23rd Yes
Thomas Pope 1884, June 2nd 1884, Aug 30th Finished
Thrasher 1894-1895 1894, March 8th 1895, Aug 21st Yes
Wm Baylies 1892-1893 1892, Dec. 15th 1893, Nov. 10th Yes
Wm Baylies 1894-1895 ODHS225 1894, March 31st 1895, Nov. 9th Finished
Wm Baylies 1894-1895 PPL674 1894, Oct. 26th 1895, June 21st Yes
Young Phoenix 1885 To come
'Finished Ice' means that all of the log book sections covering sea ice have been completed. Other sections, probably in the South Pacific, have yet to be completed because these are our lowest priority.
'Assigned' means that the sections are allotted to transcribers but not yet completed. Please ask AvastMH for more information about these.

Re: Find your ship, & the full list of ships logbooks for OWW

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2020 9:44 pm
by AvastMH
Here is the full list of logbooks that we are currently working upon:

InstitutionShip NameStart DateEnd Date Catalog Entry
NBWMJohn and Winthrop19121912 Logbook of the John and Winthrop (Bark) of San Francisco, mastered by William F. Joseph, on voyage 21 Mar. 1912-24 Oct. (hardly legible, ed.)
NBWMBelvedere19071907 Belvedere (Steam bark), of San Francisco, Calif., mastered by S.F. Cottle, kept by William F. Joseph, on voyage from 1907 Mar. 2-Oct. 8.
PPLKarluk19061906 See microfilm slug
NBWMWilliam Baylies19061906 Logbook of the William Baylies (Steam Bark) out of San Francisco, California, Mastered by Hartson H. Bodfish, Kept by kept by William F. Joseph, On voyage from March 10, 1906 ? November 7, 1906 to the North Pacific Ocean
NHABowhead19051906 Logbook of the Bowhead (Steam Bark), mastered by John Atkins Cook and James A. Tilton, kept by R.B. Spencer, Engineer. 17 August 1905 to 12 November 1906. Note: Engineer's Log.
NBWMCalifornia19051905 Logbook of the California (Bark), of San Francisco, Calif., mastered by William F. Joseph, kept by William F. Joseph, on voyage from 1905 Feb. 16-1905 Nov. 3.
PPLKarluk19041906 See microfilm slug
NBWMAlexander18991899 Alexander (Steam bark) of San Francisco, mastered by B.T. Tilton, on voyage from 16 Mar.-11 Nov. 1899.
NBWMBeluga18971899 Logbook of the Beluga (Steam bark) of San Francisco, mastered by Hartson H. Bodfish, on voyage 30 Mar. 1897-4 Oct. 1899.
NBWMBelvedere 22218971898 Logbook ('Log 222 handwriting 1') of the Belvedere (Steam bark) of San Francisco, mastered by M.V.B. Millard, on voyage from 9 Mar. 1897-5 Nov. 1898.
NBWMBelvedere 54518971898 Logbook ('Log 545, handwriting 2') of the Belvedere (Steam bark) of San Francisco, mastered by M.V.B. Millard, on voyage from 9 Mar. 1897-5 Nov. 1898.
NBWMNavarch18971897Logbook of the Navarch (Steam bark) out of San Francisco, Calif., mastered by Joseph Whiteside, kept by Thomas Birnbaum on voyage 2 Mar. 1897-14 Oct. 1897.
NBWMOrca18971897Logbook of the Orca (Steam bark), of San Francisco, Calif., mastered by Albert C. Sherman, kept by Albert C. Sherman, on voyage from 30 Mar. 1897-18 Sept. 1897.
NBWMMermaid18961896Logbook of the Mermaid (Bark) of San Francisco, Calif., mastered by David F. Devoll, on voyage from 17 Mar. 1896-9 Nov. 1896.
NBWMBeluga18951896 Logbook of the Beluga (Steam bark), out of San Francisco, Calif., mastered by Albert C. Sherman, kept by Albert C. Sherman, on voyage from 7 Jul. 1895-16 Nov. 1896.
NBWMCalifornia18941895 Logbook of the California (Bark), of San Francisco, Calif., mastered by Ellsworth Luce West, kept by first mate William F. Joseph, on voyage from 1894 Dec. 4-1895 Nov. 7.
PPLCalifornia18941895 See microfilm slug (investigate duplicate to NBWM copy)
NBWMNarwhal18941894 Logbook of the Narwhal (Steam bark) of San Francisco, mastered by H.P. Smith, on voyage from 1 Jan. 1894-19 Oct. 1894.
NBWMThrasher18941895 Logbook of the Thrasher (Steam bark) of San Francisco, mastered by Charles E. Weeks on voyage from Mar. 1894-Aug. 1895.
NBWMWilliam Baylies18941895 William Baylies (Steam bark) of San Francisco, mastered by John MacInnis, on voyage from 31 Mar. 1894-9 Nov. 1895.
PPLWilliam Baylies18941895 See microfilm slug
NBWMHunter18931893 Logbook of the Hunter (Bark) of San Francisco, mastered by A. Huntley, on voyage from 15 Feb. 1893-8 Nov..
NBWMNavarch18931896 Navarch (Steam bark) of San Francisco, mastered by John A. Cook, on voyage from 20 Dec. 1893 to 1 Nov. 1896.
NBWMJames Arnold18921894 Logbook of the James Arnold (Ship) of New Bedford, mastered by John S. Reynolds, on voyage from 21 Jan. 1892-6 Oct. 1894.
NBWMNarwhal18921893 Narwhal (Steam bark), of San Francisco, Calif., mastered by Horace P. Smith, on voyage from 12 Mar. 1892-31 Dec. 1893.
NBWMNavarch18921893 Logbook of the Navarch (Steam bark) of New Bedford, mastered by William B. Ellis and Jas.A. Whiteside, on voyage from 6 July 1892-27 Nov. 1893.
NBWMStamboul18921892 Logbook of the Stamboul (Bark) out of San Francisco, California. Mastered by S.C. Waldron. Kept by Benjamin F. Sparks. On voyage from March 15, 1892 ? October 23, 1892 to the North Pacific Ocean.
NBWMWilliam Baylies18921893 Logbook of the William Baylies (Steam bark) of San Francisco, mastered by George W. Porter, on voyage from 15 Dec. 1892-10 Nov. 1893.
NBWMCape Horn Pigeon18911892 Logboook of the Cape Horn Pigeon (Bark) of San Francisco, mastered by Thomas Scullan, on voyage from 7 Dec. 1891-5 Nov. 1892.
NBWMGrampus18911891 Grampus (Steam barkentine), of San Francisco, Calif., mastered by H.H. Norwood, on voyage from 16 Apr. 1891-23 May. 1891.
NBWMAlaska18901891 Logboook of the Alaska (Bark) of San Francisco, mastered by Charles W. Fisher, W.T. Macomber, B.B. Worth, and George W. Porter, on voyage from 4 Dec. 1890-8 Nov. 1891.
NBWMEmma F. Herriman18901891 Logbook of the Emma F. Herriman (Bark) of San Francisco, mastered by E.T. Fish on voyage from 4 Dec. 1890-24 Oct. 1891.
NBWMCoral18861888 Logbook of the Coral (Bark) of San Francisco, mastered by Rodolphus Delano Wicks, on voyage from Nov. 1886-Oct. 1888.
PPLMary and Susan18861887 See microfilm slugs (possibly three versions)
NBWMWilliam Baylies18861887 William Baylies (Steam bark) out of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Horace B. Montross, kept by James Holley Bartletton voyage from 20 Sept. 1886-22 Nov 1887.
NBWMLucretia18851886 Lucretia (Steam bark), of San Francisco, Calif., mastered by Albert C. Sherman, kept by Francis Perry Rose, on voyage from 1 Dec. 1885-14 Nov. 1886.
NBWMYoung Phoenix18851885 Logbook of the Young Phoenix (Bark), of San Francisco, Calif., mastered by J.H. Holmes, on whaling voyage from 21 Feb. 1885-10 Nov. 1885.
NBWMBelvedere18841885 Logbook of the Belvedere (Steam bark) of San Francisco, mastered by George F. Smith, on voyage from 2 Dec. 1884-7 Nov. 1885.
NBWMJohn Carver18841885 John Carver (Bark), of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Albert C. Sherman, kept by Albert C. Sherman, on voyage 6 May 1884-11 Nov. 1885.
NBWMThomas Pope18841884 Logbook of the Thomas Pope (Bark); on voyage from 2 June-30 Aug. 1884.
NBWMFleetwing18821882 Logbook of the Fleetwing (Bark), of San Francisco, Calif., mastered by John Heppingstone, kept by the daughter of Capt. John Heppingstone, on voyage from14 Apr. 1882-5 Nov. 1882.
NBWMFleetwing18821883 Logbook of the Fleetwing (Bark) out of San Francisco, California. Mastered by Hiram Nye. Kept by William J. Shockley. On voyage December 5, 1882 ? November 4, 1883 to the North Pacific and Bering Sea whaling grounds.
NBWMHunter18821883 Hunter (Bark) of San Francisco, Calif., mastered by Albert C. Sherman, kept by Albert C. Sherman on voyage from 26 Dec. 1882-18 Nov. 1883.
NBWMBounding Billow18811882 Logbook of the Bounding Billow (Bark), whaling vessel, out of Edgartown, Mass., mastered by Jared Jernegan, kept by William J. Shockley, on voyage 16 Aug. 1881-15 Nov. 1882.
PPLJacob A. Howland18811884 See microfilm slug
NBWMLucretia18811882 Lucretia (Steam bark) of New Bedford, mastered by Thomas Mellen, on voyage from 1 Oct. 1881-24 Nov. 1882.
NBWMNorth Star18811882 North Star (Steam bark) of New Bedford, mastered by James S. Carter and L.C. Owen, on voyage from 2 May. 1881- 30 July. 1882.
NBWMAtlantic18801881 Atlantic (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by West Mitchell (replaced by Benjamin Franklin Wing, at Honolulu, 18 Apr. 1881), on voyage from 2 Nov. 1880-31 Oct. 1881.
PPLMary and Susan18801881 See microfilm slug
NBWMMary and Helen18791880 Mary and Helen (Steam bark) of New Bedford, mastered by M. Millard and Leander C. Owen, on voyage 9 Sept. 1879-11 Oct. 1880.
NBWMHunter18781879 Logbook of the Hunter (Bark) of San Francisco, mastered by Benjamin Franklin Homan on voyage Dec 1878-Nov 1879.
NBWMSyren18781878 Logbook of the Syren (Ship) of San Francisco, mastered by Cyrus Manter, on voyage 1878.
NBWMHunter18771878 Logbook of the Hunter (Bark) of New Bedford, mastered by Benjamin Franklin Homan on voyage Dec. 1877-Dec. 1878.
PPLMary and Susan18771880 See microfilm slug
NBWMLucretia18821883
NBWMLucretia18831884