Whaling Masters - Stokvis Studies - In Historial Chronology and Thought No. 8

Beginning with a short outline of the history of whaling and an explanation of its daring technique, this book provides a comprehensive list of whaling masters sailing from American ports, giving the year, port, and their ship's name. It is a list as complete as painstaking seaches of the local records and old newspapers can make it, and serves as a roll of honour for an industry now gone...