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Sunday, 30 November 2025

The results of the American whaling in 1869

Number of ships and barks 223

Number of brigs 25

Number of schooners and sloops 88

Aggregate tonnage 82,768

Barrels of sperm oil 47,936

Barrels of whale oil 85,011

Pounds of whale bone 603,603

Value of imports $ 6,196,947.54

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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