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Thursday, 4 December 2025

The results of the American whaling in 1837

Number of ships and barks 490

Number of brigs 9

Number of schooners and sloops 10

Aggregate tonnage 150,969

Barrels of sperm oil 181,724

Barrels of whale oil 219,138

Pounds of whale bone 1,753,104

Value of imports $ 7,357.553.31

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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