14 FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Section F.— APPABATUS USED IN THE WHALING AND 

 SEALING INDUSTRY.* 



XXVII. — Whaling Vessels and Boats. 



111. Model of a four-boat whale ship, with a decapitated 



sperm whale alongside, illustrating the manner in 

 which the blubber is cut Off, hoisted in, and lowered 

 into the blubber room • also showing the amount of 

 canvas carried by a vessel while engaged in this work, 

 and the stations of the officers and foremast hands, as 

 well as the positions of the try- works and whale boats. 



112. Model of the " camels", which were built in 1842, for float- 



ing whaling vessels over Nantucket Bar, with the hull 

 of a vessel showing the relative positions of the one to 

 the other when in operation. 



113. Model of try- works transported by whaling vessels, for ex- 



tracting the oil from the blubber, with the recepta- 

 cles for scrap and for cooling the oil • also, miniature 

 models of some of the implements commonly known as 

 ■• try- works gear" for manipulating the oil and scrap. 



114. A full-sized whale boat, 28 feet long, with all the appara- 



tus of capture; the names of the various parts of the 

 boat; the boat fittings, and each article used in the 

 chase and capture of the whale are plainly marked. 



XXVIII. — Whaling Craft, Harpoons, Guns, and Lances. 



115. A series of 47 hand-harpoons', arranged in groups, but 



not in chronological order, including the forms em- 

 ployed by the early and modern whalemen, and seve- 

 ral types of the walrus-harpoon. 



116. A series of guns, including 8 shoulder guns of different 



patterns, both breech-loading and muzzle-loading* 

 several types of the darting gun ; one swivel gun, and 

 a rocket gun ; also accessories, including cartridges, 

 wads, &c. 



117. A series of 33 gun harpoons of various forms. Though 



these irons have no commercial value at present, with 

 the exception perhaps of those intended for the swivel- 

 gun, yet they have been used, and are interesting and 

 valuable as a whole, constituting as they do the nu- 

 merous links in the chain that connects the past with 

 the present. 



* Here are included, for convenience of arrangement, the apparatus of manufacture 

 or preparation of whaling products, the preliminary stages of which being usually 

 conducted on board of the whaling vessels may be regarded as a portion of the fish- 

 ery proper. 



