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Thursday, 16 October 2025

The results of the American whaling in 1847

Number of ships and barks 670

Number of brigs 31

Number of schooners and sloops 22

Aggregate tonnage 230,218

Barrels of sperm oil 120,753

Barrels of whale oil 313,150

Pounds of whale bone 3,341,680

Value of imports $ 7,807,865.20

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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