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WHALING -
Business History
September 17, 1819
- First whaling ship arrives in Hawaii.
March 16, 1844
- Albert Moor, of Hampden, ME, received a patent for a "Bomb Lance"
("Improvement in Harpoons"); fluke of harpoon pivoted on shank, held in
place by wooden pin; small vial of explosive powder placed in fluke,
under end of shank of harpoon, arranged so that power of whale pulling
upon tow-line attached to harpoon would break wooden pin allowing fluke
of harpoon to turn, crush vial, cause powder to explode to destroy
whale.
July 23, 1982
- International Whaling Commission votes for total ban on commercial
whaling (starting 1985).
Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman, and Karin Gleiter (1997). In
Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and
Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906. (Chicago, IL: University of
Chicago Press, 550 p.). Whaling--United States--History--19th century';
Whaling--Economic aspects--United States.
Robert Owen Decker (1974).
Whaling Industry of New London.
(York, PA: Liberty Cap Books, 202 p.). Whaling--Connecticut--New
London--History.
--- (1976).
The Whaling City: A History of New London.
(Chester, CT: Pequot Press (for the New London County Historical
Society), 415 p.). New London (Conn.)--History.
Eric Jay Dolin (2007).
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. (New York, NY:
Norton, 416 p.). National Marine Fisheries Service. Whaling--United
States--History. Interplay of natural history, commerce, exploration,
military expansion in the rise of the United States.
Granville Allen Mawer (1999).
Ahab's Trade:
The Saga of South Sea Whaling. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press,
393 p.). Whaling--History; Whaling--South Pacific Ocean--History.
Outlawed (= slaughter) by international community in 1986. Between
1900 and 1939 - 500,000 whales processed. Author begins in 1650 and
ends in 1924, focusing mostly on Nantucket-New Bedford -based sperm
whale fishery.
Joseph L. McDevitt (1986). The House of Rotch: Massachusetts Whaling
Merchants, 1734-1828. (New York, NY: Garland, 641 p.). Rotch family;
Whaling--Massachusetts--History.
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Business History Links
Defending Our Oceans: Whaling
http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/our-oceans/whaling
Background about the impact of the whaling industry on whale populations
and on the health of the oceans. Includes links to news on topics such
Iceland's resumption of commercial whaling activities in 2006 (after a
17-year hiatus), and activities of the International Whaling Commission
(IWC). From Greenpeace.
New Bedford Whaling Museum http://www.whalingmuseum.org/
Largest museum in America devoted to the history of the American whaling
industry and its greatest port. Museum brings to life the whaling era
and the history of the local area. It houses the most extensive
collection of art, artifacts, and manuscripts pertaining to American
whaling in the age of sail - late eighteenth century to the early
twentieth, when sailing ships dominated merchant trade and whaling. |
