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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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Whalehunters

Author : Malcolm Archibald
Publisher : Mercat Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9781841830650
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Whalehunters written by Malcolm Archibald and published by Mercat Press Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few trades were so demanding and dangerous as whaling. The hunt for the whale and its precious oil, bone and ambergris took sailors to the frozen ends of the earth, on voyages that lasted years at a time. Harpoons were thrown by hand from an open boat, which at any moment the whale could reduce to matchwood with a single blow of its tail. This book is not a history of whaling, but the story of the whalehunters themselves. It tells of the experiences of men from little Scottish ports who risked everything for a tiny share in whatever their whaling ships managed to catch. Making a living in this way involved extraordinary adventures, harrowing ordeals and grinding labour: and a courage that was prepared to confront the mystery and terror of the sea.

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.

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:

Whales for the Wizard

Author : Malcolm Archibald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846480614
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Whales for the Wizard written by Malcolm Archibald and published by . This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning to the Dundee of 1860 after years in the army, Robert Douglas finds employment with George Gilbride; a whaling-ship owner known as the Wizard. Drugged by a sinister gangster, Douglas awakes on board the steam-whaler Redgauntlet bound for the Arctic, and discovers that his companions believe the ship is haunted. Douglas befriends the ship's mate and together they begin to unravel a year-old mystery.

The Scottish Mariners Series

Author : David Dobson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781899686568
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (865 download)

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Download or read book The Scottish Mariners Series written by David Dobson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The British Whaling Trade

Author : Gordon Jackson
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1786949075
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book The British Whaling Trade written by Gordon Jackson and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive economic history of the British Whaling Trade, divided into two eras of significant technological difference. The first part concerns the traditional whaling trades that structured the industry for three centuries, from 1604-1914. The second part concerns the modern whaling trade between the years 1904-1963, characterised by technological advance and tremendous international competition. Gordon Jackson approaches the enormous subject of British Whaling from the perspectives of both the national economy of Britain, and the international whaling industry as a whole. The book consults official statistical material to determine the size and performance of various whaling fleets; eye-witness accounts and state papers for the early history of the trade; log books, and trade and customs records for the eighteenth century; and the documents of the Southern Whaling Company, Salvesen, and Unilever for insights into the modern whaling period. The book concludes with appendices containing statistical data concerning whale oil, whale stocks, and the price of goods, two bibliographies of further reading, and a conclusion that free competition and market demand simply exhausted whale stocks beyond any possibility of restoration.

When the Whalers Were Up North

Author : Dorothy Eber
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773514218
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book When the Whalers Were Up North written by Dorothy Eber and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oral histories of the 100 years of British and American whaling off the east coast of Canada and in Hudson Bay, as experienced by the native people who fed, clothed, and hunted with the whalers. Illustrated with modern drawings (some in color), and photographs from the period. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368806319
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay and the Gulf of Boothia

Author : Sir Albert Hastings Markham
Publisher : London : S. Low, Marston, Low, and Searle
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay and the Gulf of Boothia 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 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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:

Economics of the Whaling Industry with Relationship to the Convention for the Regulation of Whaling

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Conservation of Wild Life Resources
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Economics of the Whaling Industry with Relationship to the Convention for the Regulation of Whaling written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Conservation of Wild Life Resources and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: