300 KEPOET OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Taile showing returna of ivhaling-vesaeh 



Name of vesseL 



1833. 



Nantucket, Jfas«.— Continued. 

 Fame 



Fame. 



Foster.. 

 Fabius . 

 Hazard . 



Harmony 



Hero 



Independence . 

 John Adams .. 

 Levi Starbuck. 



Lexington 



Lydia 



Montano 



Martha. 

 Orion . . . 

 Omoija . 

 Ohio.... 

 Peru ... 

 Pilot ... 

 IJoso ... 

 Robert . 



Su.'ian 



Three Brothers. 



Dartmouth, Mass. 



Bv Chance 

 Wade , 



Edgartown, Mass. 



Almira 



Champion 



Rochester, Mass. 



Dryado . . 



Franklin 

 Laurel ... 

 Shylock . 



Westport, Mass. 



Industry , 



Mexico T 



Thomas Win slow 



Plymouth, Mass. 



Fortune . 

 Triton .. 



Marblehead, Mass. 



Atlas. 



Gloucester, Mass. 



Lewis Ship . 



Mount Wollaston . . do 



Class. 



Ship... 

 Sloop . . 



Ship . . . 



do ... 



Sloop . . 



Schooner 



Ship . . 

 ...do .. 

 ...do .. 

 ...do .. 

 Schooner 

 Ship . . . 



..do ... 



..do ... 

 ..do .... 

 ..do .... 

 . do .... 

 Bark... 

 Schoonei 

 .do .... 

 Sloop . . . 



Ship . - - 

 ..do ... 



Brig . 

 Bark 



Ship ... 

 ..do ... 



Bark... 

 ..do .... 

 Schooner 

 Ship . . . 



Brig 



..do. 



..do. 



Bark. 

 Ship - 



Ship . . . 



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Captain. 



Isaac Gardner . . 

 Peter C. Myrick 



Josiah C. Long 



Benjamin C. Chase. 

 Swain 



Chadwick . . . 



Bnrdick 



Peter Smith 



Isaac Bray ton 



Obed Lncr*, jr 



Shadrach Freeman. 



Cash 



Edward C. Joy 



David N. Edwards. 



Tristram Pinkham... 



Moses Brown 



Henry Phelon 



Chai'ies W. Coffin .... 

 William Brooks, jr . . . 



Pinkham 



James Davis 



Luce 



Frederick Swain . 

 George Alley . . . . 



Iliram Covell . . 

 Charles B.Kay. 



Merchant 

 Worth . . . . 



Joseph B. Taber 



Calvin C. Adams 



Mavhew 



Clement Hammond 



George Soule 



Alden Wilkey 



Benjamin Seabury. 



Upham 

 Tiltou . . 



Gardner... 



Managing owner or 

 agent. 



Val. Uussey & Bro. 



Joseph Starbuck. 



Griffin Barney . 

 Levi Starbuck . 



Samuel B. Folger 



do _ 



F. W. Hussey 



Joso])h Starbuck. 



Jared Cothu 



David Joy 



Joseph Starbuck. 



Aaron Mitchell . 

 Joseph Starbuck. 



Abraham Osborn 

 Grafton Norton . . 



Gideon Barstow & Son . 



Isaac L. Hedge. 



Wood 



Adams 



* Experiments had been made in the English fishery in 1831 with killing whales by the injection of 



such consternation that thoy refused to have more to do with it. At wiiat time this weapon was 



English discovery; but, resting the matter upon the published record of actual use alone, England 



The harpoon-gun is described by Scoresby as having been in use in the English service as early as 



