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HISTORY AND METHODS OF THE FISHERIES. 



10. LIST OF WHALING VOYAGES FROM AMERICAN POETS, 1870 TO 1880. 



The following statemeut gives the name, rig, and tonnage of each American whaling vessel 

 since 1870; also the whaling ground, the date of sailing and returning, and the amount of oil and 

 bone secured by each vessel during the years 1870 to 1880. The vessels are arranged in alphabeti- 

 cal order by ports, and according to the year of their departure on a voyage. Vessels fitted li-oin 

 Stoningtou and New London for Antarctic fur seal and sea elephant voyages are not included. 



These returns from 1870 to 1876 are corrected from the list given by Alexander Starbuck in 

 his History of the Whale Fishery, and for later years are compiled from the tiles of the Whalemen's 

 Shipping List and the custom-house records. In the report of the U. S. Fish Commission for 1877, 

 Starbuck gives, as far as practicable, the details of each voyage from American ports since the 

 beginning of the fishery, and also information as to the owner and master of each vessel. 



The details of voyages of vessels in the North Pacific and Hudson Bay fleets are also given 

 above, on pages 86 to 94 and 99 to 104. 



Number of vessela sent out annually since 18KO. 



From 1870 to 1880 the number of individual vessels that participated in the whale fishery of 

 the United States was 326, and the number of vessels lost while on their voyages was 67. From 

 1860 to 1880, 1,734 voyages were undertaken: 998 to the North and South Atlantic oceans; 271 to 

 the Pacific Ocean; 201 to the Pacific, Arctic, and adjacent waters; 147 to the Indian Ocean ; 117 

 to Hudson Bay and Cumberland Inlet. 



From 1870 to 1880 615 vessels sailed from home ports on whaling cruises. Of this number 

 385 were fitted for cruising in the Atlantic, 96 in the Pacific, 49 in the Indian Ocean, 52 in the 

 North Pacific and Arctic, 18 in Hudson Bay, 12 in Cumberland Inlet, 2 at New Zealand, and 1 in 

 Sooloo Sea. None have been fitted for the Indian Ocean since 1877. The largest number of 

 vessels fitted in one year during this decade was 75 in 1875, and the smallest number was 37 in 

 1873 ; 63 were fitted in 1880. 



