Connecting All Things Whaling. This data-driven site will be useful to a wide range of people, from family historians searching for ancestors, to scholars of the whaling industry, to teachers and their students.
Learn the early beginnings of North American whaling through to the Great Age of Yankee Whaling. Get a sense of the challenges and changes that spelled the decline of the whaling fleet.
By Rachel Adler, Intern, New Bedford Whaling Museum - Whaling logbooks and journals give a unique perspective as to what life was like aboard a whaling vessel.