300 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Table showing returns of ivhaling-vesseh 



Name of vessel. 



1833. 



Nantucket, Mass.— Continued. 

 Fame 



Fame . 



Foster.. 

 Fabius . 

 Hazard . 



Harmony 



Hero 



Independence . 

 John Adams . . 

 Levi Starbuck. 



Lexington 



Lydia 



Montano 



Martha. 

 Orion... 

 Omega . 

 Ohio.... 

 Peru . . . 

 Pilot... 

 Rose ... 

 Robert . 



Susan 



Three Brothers. 



Dartmouth, Mass. 



By Chance 

 Wade 



Edgartown, Mass. 



Almira 



Champion 



Rochester, Mass. 



Dryado . . 

 Franklin 

 Laurel . . 



Shylock . 



Westport, Mass. 



Industry 



Mexico .. 



Thomas Winslow 



Plymouth, Maxs. 



Fortune . 

 Triton .. 



Marblehead, Mass. 



Atlas. 



Gloucester, Mass. 



Lewis 



Mount Wollaston 



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 .... 

 Schoonei 

 Ship... 



Brig 

 ..do 

 ..do 



Bark... 

 Ship... 



Ship ... 



Ship 

 . do 



Captain. 



Isaac Gardner . . 

 Peter C. Myrick 



Josiah C. Long 



BeDJamiu C. Chase. . . 

 Swain 



Chad wick 



Burdick . 



Peter Smith 



Isaac Brayton 



Obed Luce, jr 



Shadrnch Freeman . . . 



Cash 



Edward C. Joy 



David X. Edwards. 



Tristram Pinkhani. 



Moses Brown 



Henrv Phelon 



Charles W. Coffin . . 

 William Brooks, jr. 

 — — Pinkham. ... 



James Davis 



Luce 



Frederick Swaiu. 

 George Alley 



Hiram Covell . . 

 Charles B. Ray. 



Joseph R. Taber 



Calvin C. Adams 



May hew . 



Clement Hammond 



George Sonle 



Alden Wilkey 



Benjamin Seabury. 



Upham 

 Tilton.. 



Gardner. 



Wood . . 

 Adams. 



Managing owner or 

 agent. 



Val. Hussey & Bro. 



Joseph Starbuck. 



Griffin Barney . 

 Levi Starbuck 



Samuel B. Folger 



do 



F. W. Hussey 

 Joseph Starbuck. 



Tarea Coffiu 



David Joy 



Joseph Starbuck. 



Aaron Mitchell . . 

 Joseph Starback. 



Abraham Osborn 

 Grafton Norton . . 



Gideon Barstow & Son. 



Isaac L. Hedge. 



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

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

 English discovery; but, resiing 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 



