494 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
Table showing the countries to which the transhipped foreign and domestic products of the 
whale fishery were shipped—Continued. 







France. Great Britain. Acnsteals Aeon South 
Years. = SS = 
Sperm | Whale | Whale- | Whale | Whale-|} Sperm | Whale | Whale- 
oil. oil. bone. oil. bone. oil. oil. bone. 
Gallons. | Gallons. Lbs. Gallons. Lbs. Gallons.| Gallons. Lbs. 
a COR Vee oe Sage aGoere 476 | 37,038 28,1200) Ss 5- -eeisec 21,040) |..-225 55-3] Someeeicen|Seezecose 
AS ba saan ete ake ae onaie eel Sic cy sisars 25,172 46; 810 Ws cccenwews| See ee eee Sean celses Steemeece nee oho 
HSB Zig sake ce arse ne eee as ors 600 | 35,400 ACO, Ul Beers Mtoe ecarnictc lsopuoreadisases—s<- 
ee aE eee ees Te RCO C bes Hes COREE eEe Gee conosel seeotaaes 25; TO see Sosa boe ar coll se ceteincs | peeeeneere 
NBO as ee ae tiios sarccsee 682 | 17,642 195809) | sts os neice! Mee nee oe ete ree [lee treme | eens iota 
STA Biarere sietats ois Saisie sista a= Ste) Siete wise. ofl lela ete teye ere Sars Seiesee iain temtec etiarantellinersio sieeiae 2,581 | 10,148 3,469 
aD SPD cteoie ohare seem ota a Sais all ise ie se acta ee eeeereina ll aoieeerare sto liste caterer \Gbemctets s 2,835 | 16,380 6, 000 






The year 1875 was practically the last one in which oil and bone 
were transshipped at the islands. For some years San Francisco had 
been endeavoring to persuade the whalers to make that port their 
refitting and transshipping point. During the gold excitement a few 
vessels did call there, but they were put to such great expense and 
delays by the desertions of their men that they ceased calling except 
when absolutely necessary. During the late ‘‘sixties,” however, a few 
resumed their calls, and these kept on increasing until in 1875 nearly 
all of the American fleet called there. In 1871 the Pacific Railroad 
provided tank cars and agreed to transport the oil to New Bedford at 
the rate of 7 cents per gallon, and this had a great deal to do with 
drawing the whalers to San Francisco. At present San Francisco is 
the port of call for all of the Pacific and Arctic fleet. 
After 1860 the fleet rapidly declined in numbers. During the civil 
war in the United States a number of them were withdrawn by their 
owners, owing to the fear of Confederate cruisers. In 1860, 293 calls 
were made at ports in the islands by Americans, while in 1862 there 
were only 57. After this they increased somewhat in number until in 
1865 there were 162. Inthis year the Confederate steamer Shenandoah 
destroyed 34 ships and barks of the Arctic fleet. 
In 1871, 30 out of 37 vessels of the American Arctic fleet were 
caught in the ice off Point Belcher and the crews were compelled to 
abandon them to their fate. The fleet had hardly begun to recover 
from this crushing blow when, in 1876, half of the fleet of 16 American 
vessels were caught in the ice and destroyed. As the fleet practically 
ceased to visit the islands regularly after 1875, its subsequent history 
does not come within the province of this paper. 
Vessels called at the islands occasionally, however, even after 1875. 
According to Capt. D. Taylor, of Lahaina, the Wimrod, of New Bed- 
ford, was the last whaler to call at Lahaina. This was in March, 1886. 
The last visit of whalers at Honolulu was in 1896, when 2 American 
and 3 British vessels called. 
