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Tuesday, 9 December 2025

The results of the American whaling in 1872

Number of ships and barks 172

Number of brigs 12

Number of schooners and sloops 34

Aggregate tonnage 52,701

Barrels of sperm oil 44,881

Barrels of whale oil 31,395

Pounds of whale bone 193,472

Value of imports $ 2,950,288.80

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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