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Wednesday, 3 December 2025

The results of the American whaling in 1836

Number of ships and barks 488

Number of brigs 9

Number of schooners and sloops 10

Aggregate tonnage 150,269

Barrels of sperm oil 132,130

Barrels of whale oil 131,176

Pounds of whale bone 1,028.773

Value of imports $ 5,733,536.21

Source

The marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America described and illustrated together with an account of the American whale-fishery. Charles M. Scammon. San, Francisco, USA, 1874. 

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