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Dundee Whaling Fleet

Author : Archibald Malcolm Archibald
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474463967
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Dundee Whaling Fleet written by Archibald Malcolm Archibald and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the 19th century, Dundee was Europe's premier Arctic whaling port. From humble beginnings in the 1750's this national industry had survived French and American wars, privateers, economic slumps, storms, heart-wrenching disasters and some amazing triumphs.From 1860 until the 1880's, Dundee built the most efficient Arctic vessels in the world. Despite being only a small city on the east coast of Scotland, as the 19th century closed, it was the most important Arctic whaling port in Europe.The Dundee Whaling Fleet gives an overview of Dundee's experience in Arctic whaling, including a valuable guide to every ship in the fleet with statistics, dates and a thumbnail history. It also gives sketches of the most prominent of the whaling masters, Dundee shipping companies and 350 of the tens of thousands of seamen who took the ships north.

The Dundee Whalers 1750-1914

Author : Norman Watson
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788854098
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book The Dundee Whalers 1750-1914 written by Norman Watson and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2003-11-24 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of what was Britain's leading whaling port. Today, Dundee captains and the city's whaling fleet have a permanent place in the geography of the world. Cape Adams, Cape Milne, Artic Bay and Eclipse Sound recall an era when the city's stoutly built ships, manned by heroic adventurers, discovered new routes, made new friends, but seldom sailed far from danger. In Dundee itself, streets such as Whale Lane and Baffin Street serve as reminders of an era in which Dundee dominated the whaling grounds. Moreover, the Dundee fleet has excelled as polar exploration ships, providing vessels for Captain Scott, Ernest Shackleton and Admiral Byrd, leaving a permanent reminder of the city's historic role at Dundee Island, Antarctica. An appendix lists all the ships and their captains.

Ancestors in the Arctic

Author : Malcolm Archibald
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845027655
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Ancestors in the Arctic written by Malcolm Archibald and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dundee, City of Discovery, is known around the world for its innovation, its jute and music, and its vibrant culture. But the critical role of the city's whaling fleet and the wealth it generated for Dundee for more than a century is less well known. Ancestors in the Arctic is a remarkable collection of photographs from the McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum, and tells the story of Dundee whaling and the men who sailed the frozen Arctic seas. This was a brutal, dangerous business which required the hardiest of men, prepared to head out to sea in all weathers and in terrible conditions in search of the elusive mammal and in the hope of a profit from whalebone, skins and the whale oil which was essential for the city's jute mills and factories. And as they sailed the dangerous Arctic waters, the ship's captains became well known - including Captain William Adams, who sailed farther north than any other Dundee whaling master and Captain Harry MacKay of Terra Nova and rescuer of the trapped Discovery in 1903. More numerous were the crewmen, the hardworking Dundonians who rowed the whaleboats and manned the ships, and many of whose descendants still live in Dundee. Ancestors in the Arctic tells their remarkable stories as they sailed north, traded with the Inuit and hunted whales across forbidding freezing seas.

The Arctic Whalers

Author : Basil Lubbock
Publisher : Ferguson Brown & Son
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Arctic Whalers written by Basil Lubbock and published by Ferguson Brown & Son. This book was released on 1937 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of trade, ships and seaman to 1914.

The Winter Whale

Author : Jim Crumley
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857905570
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book The Winter Whale written by Jim Crumley and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late November, 1893, a humpback whale - as rare a sight in the North Sea then as it would be now - followed herring shoals into the Tay estuary, and travelled as far upstream as Dundee docks to linger in the home waters of the biggest whaling fleet in Britain, and one of the biggest in Europe. The whale became an instant celebrity, known simply as the Monster, but a handful of boats were launched to try and catch it. The hunt was farcical, protracted, and ultimately grotesque - the whale remained elusive for four weeks before towing six vessels out past the Bell Rock lighthouse. All the lines parted in building seas and the whale escaped, but it was mortally wounded and was found floating off Stonehaven on January 6, bristling with ironmongery. After a public auction was held for the corpse, the whale was hauled to Dundee. The public was charged sixpence or a shilling to see it, special trains were run from all over Angus, Perthshire and Fife, and for three shillings they could have their photograph taken sitting at a table inside the whale's propped open mouth. The whale was immortalised by the poetry of William McGonagall and went on tour by train on a specially built cradle to Aberdeen, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, London and Edinburgh, before returning to Dundee. Its skeleton was presented to Dundee Museum, despite lucrative offers from big museums in London, Europe and America. The Winter Whale is a remarkable historical set piece, a product of its time, although even then public opinion was divided between glee and outrage, pro-whaler and pro-whale.

The Dundee Whalers

Author : Norman Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book The Dundee Whalers written by Norman Watson and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dundee: A Short History

Author : Norman Watson
Publisher : Black & White Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1785301861
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Dundee: A Short History written by Norman Watson and published by Black & White Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Dundee is both fascinating and dramatic. Now, in Dundee – A Short History, Norman Watson brings to life the people and events that shaped this great city from its origins and early development, through centuries of poverty and prosperity to the golden years of jute, jam and journalism and beyond. In this absorbing and comprehensive history, meet the women who hijacked the Reformation, the sisters who terrorised Winston Churchill, the martyred George Wishart who kept only his hat, the whalerman James McIntosh who ate his to survive, and witness Shackleton’s remarkable expedition to far-north Dundee and the flights of fancy surrounding Preston Watson. And after tragic events like Monk’s massacre and the Tay Bridge disaster, the city’s extraordinary story sparkles into life again with its brilliant cultural renaissance and dramatic change of fortunes. Dundee – A Short History is an acclaimed and authoritative account of the remarkable story of one of Scotland’s greatest cities.

Whalers and Whaling

Author : Edward Keble Chatterton
Publisher : London : T.F. Unwin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Whalers and Whaling written by Edward Keble Chatterton and published by London : T.F. Unwin. This book was released on 1926 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger (1789–1857)

Author : William Scoresby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351814281
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger (1789–1857) written by William Scoresby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third and final volume in the set of William Scoresby's journals. It contains the unpublished accounts of his three voyages 1817, 1818 and 1820. During the years of the voyages in this volume Scoresby's life changed profoundly. An unsuccessful hunt for whales in 1817 led to a break with the Whitby shipowners, and command of the Fame in 1818 in partnership with his father. The partnership was a brief one, and at the end of 1818 Scoresby broke with his father and moved to Liverpool, finding new partners, completing the writing of An Account of the Arctic Regions and watching the construction of his new ship, the Baffin. Meanwhile he suffered a severe financial loss and made a profound religious commitment. After his first summer ashore for many years in 1819, he brought back to Liverpool in 1820 a 'full ship' of seventeen whales, despite being faced by mutineers in the crew who earlier had been involved in piracy in the Caribbean and, apparently, hoped to seize the Baffin 'and convey her and her valuable cargo to a foreign country'. In each of the journals, Scoresby wrote detailed descriptions of his landings: on Jan Mayen in 1817, western Spitsbergen in 1818, and the Langanes peninsula in northeast Iceland in 1820. The 1817 voyage, when Scoresby and others found the Greenland Sea relatively free of ice, involved him in the renewed British interest in arctic maritime exploration after the Napoleonic Wars. The Introduction to this volume contains a major reappraisal of Scoresby's role, especially in regard to his alleged mistreatment by John Barrow, Second Secretary of the Admiralty. The volume also contains an appendix by Fred M. Walker on the building of wooden whaleships such as the Baffin that were capable of routine ice navigation under sail as far north as 80°N, based on Scoresby's account, as Owners' Representative, at the beginning of the 1820 journal.

A Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler Aurora

Author : David Moore Lindsay
Publisher : Boston : D. Estes
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler Aurora written by David Moore Lindsay and published by Boston : D. Estes. This book was released on 1911 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative of voyage from Dundee to Davis Strait, 1884.

A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay and the Gulf of Boothia, and an Account of the Rescue of the Crew of the Polaris

Author : Sir Albert Hastings Markham
Publisher : London : S. Low, Marston, Low, and Searle
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay and the Gulf of Boothia, and an Account of the Rescue of the Crew of the Polaris written by Sir Albert Hastings Markham and published by London : S. Low, Marston, Low, and Searle. This book was released on 1874 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Consular Reports

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Consular Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Monthly Consular and Trade Reports

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Monthly Consular and Trade Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Wild Rough Lot

Author : Malcolm Archibald
Publisher : Next Chapter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book A Wild Rough Lot written by Malcolm Archibald and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling introduction to the whaling and sealing industry in Northeast Scotland's Moray Firth, Malcolm Archibald's A Wild Rough Lot will guide you through the trade's history, dangers and successes. Beginning with a brief look at the geography and maritime history of Northeast Scotland's ports, the book introduces the Scottish whaling industry through contemporary journals and log books. Laden with illuminating examples, the book covers topics from the stages of a typical whaling voyage to the brutal, often bloody process of the sealing industry. In-depth details of the trade in Moray Firth concentrate on the successes of specific ports and ships in the area, including the short-lived whaling industry in Nairn, the prosperous trade and insurance case of Banff, the fortunes and dangers of the Arctic and prominent ship Felix, and a yearly account of the whaling and sealing trade in the most successful port, Fraserburgh. Beyond a glimpse into the industry, the book provides useful details of the vessels and an 1859 crew list useful for those seeking a chance to trace their family roots in the maritime industry.

Reports from the Consuls of the United States (varies Slightly)

Author : United States. Bureau of Manufactures
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Reports from the Consuls of the United States (varies Slightly) written by United States. Bureau of Manufactures and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scottish Arctic Whaling

Author : Chelsey W. Sanger
Publisher : John Donald
ISBN 13 : 9781906566777
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Scottish Arctic Whaling written by Chelsey W. Sanger and published by John Donald. This book was released on 2016 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes Scotland's 150-year involvement in Arctic bowhead whaling using previously unpublished research from port records and newspaper accounts.

Dundee

Author : Norman Watson
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1910324663
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Dundee written by Norman Watson and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where can you find five castles, an Antarctic research ship and award winning modern art and theatre venues side by side? Which Scottish city made its name producing the 'three Js' of jute, jam and journalism, was home to a higher population of working women than anywhere else in the UK in the late 19th century and gave us the world's worst poet? In this first ever comprehensive guide to the city join author Norman Watson on a journey street-by-street through Dundee, UNESCO City of Design, shortlisted City of Culture, and now proudly selected to host the world-beating V&A Museum. Explore key streets and buildings and meet famous Dundee residents, recalling stories of the city's past as a manufacturing monolith and looking to its bright future as a hub of learning and culture. Fully illustrated and featuring full colour maps, this guide to Dundee is the perfect companion for locals and visitors alike.