Antarctic sealing ground. Rigging brig. Captain Barnum left Stonington for the Crozet Islands in 1839 and arrived at home in 1840 with 800 barrels sea-elephant oil
Source
Goode, George Brown. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Volume II, Washington, 1887.
Antarctic sealing ground. Rigging brig. Tonnage 129 tons. Captain Barnum, sailed from Stonington for the Indian Ocean on 15 July 1839 and arrived at home on 7 June 1840 with 650 barrels sea-elephant oil.
Source
Goode, George Brown. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Volume II, Washington, 1887.
Antarctic sealing ground. Tonnage 278 tons. Rigging ship. Captain Brewster, left Stonington for the Crozet Islands on 10 July 1839 and arrived at home on 28 February 1841 with 1,800 barrels sea-elephant oil.
Source
Goode, George Brown. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Volume II, Washington, 1887.
Antarctic sealing ground southern seas. Rigging schooner. Left Stonington in 1839 and arrived at home in 1840 with 800 fur-seal skins.
Source
Goode, George Brown. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Volume II, Washington, 1887.
Antarctic sealing ground. Rigging brig. Tonnage 98 tons. Captain Pendleton left Stonington on 16 July 1839 for the Crozet Islands and arrived at home on 8 May 1840 with 300 barrels sea-elephant oil.
Source
Goode, George Brown. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Volume II, Washington, 1887.
Antarctic sealing ground. Rigging schooner. Tonnage 66 tons. Captain Smiley left Newport, Rhode Island on 30 March 1839 on a sealing voyage to Cape Horn and vicinity. Made two voyages with this ship with each time around 2,000 fur-seal skins. Made prior to 1844 with another ship two voyages, the first with good results, the last voyage was his ship lost.
Source
Goode, George Brown. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Volume II, Washington, 1887.
Photo credit Paula O’Sullivan with our thanks
Grytviken nowadays lying beside the Albatross
Originally built as the screw steam trawler Viola H868 by Cook, Welton&Gemmell Ltd., Beverley, England in February 1906 with Hull, England as homeport, owner Hellyer Steam Fishing Company, in the First World War serving in the Royal Navy as the anti submarine trawler HMS Viola FY614, sold to Massey&Sons in 1918, sold to A/S Sandsfjord Trawfiskelskap, Norway and renamed Kapduen in Norwegian service in 1919, sold to the Cie. Argentina de Pesca S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1926, converted into a whale catcher at Sandefjord, Norway in 1927, as the Dias serving at the Grytviken whaling station, South Georgia until 1964. She served a sealer, for towing the carcasses of whales and transport of for instance sea elephant blubber. Gross tonnage 167 tons, under deck 133 tons, net tonnage 111 and as dimensions 1-8.5 x 21.6 x 11.5 feet.
Antarctic sealing ground southern seas. Rigging schooner. Arrived in 1837 and 1839 at New London with totally 4,500 fur-seal skins.
Source
Goode, George Brown. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Volume II, Washington, 1887.
Antarctic sealing ground South Atlantic Ocean. Rigging brig. Captain McKinster, left on 15 May 1838 Mystic, Connecticut for the South Atlantic Ocean and arrived at home on 9 March 1839 with 300 barrels sea-elephant oil.
Source
Goode, George Brown. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Volume II, Washington, 1887.
Antarctic sealing ground Crozet Islands. Rigging brig. Captain Bailey, tonnage 99 tons, sailed from Mystic, Connecticut in June 1838 and arrived at home on 8 April 1839 with 100 barrels sea-elephant oil.
Source
Goode, George Brown. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Volume II, Washington, 1887.
Antarctic sealing ground south seas. Rigging ship. Captain Holmes, tonnage 298 tons, sailed from Mystic, Connecticut on 11 July 1838 for the South Seas and arrived at home on 5 September 1839 with 1,300 barrels of sea-elephant oil. Tender was schooner Plutarch of 81 tons, captain Stevens. Departed on 1 December 1839, captain McKinstry and wrecked on New Holland on 8 JUly 1840.
Source
Goode, George Brown. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Volume II, Washington, 1887.
Antarctic sealing ground. Rigging ship. Captain Smith, tonnage 492 tons, sailed from New London to Desolation Island on 25 July 1838 and arrived at home on 1 May 1839 with 3,700 barrels of sea-elephant oil.
Source
Goode, George Brown. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Volume II, Washington, 1887.
Antarctic sealing ground southern seas. Rigging schooner. Arrived in 1838 at Stonington with 3,000 fur-seal skins.
Source
Goode, George Brown. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Volume II, Washington, 1887.
Antarctic sealing ground southern seas. Rigging schooner. Arrived at Stonington in 1837 with 1,500 fur-seal skins.
Source
Goode, George Brown. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Volume II, Washington, 1887.
Antarctic sealing ground Falkland Islands. Rigging ship. Tonnage 349 tons. Captain Beck. Left Stonington on 27 December 1837, arrived home on 13 October 1839 with 1,200 barrels sea-elephant oil and 2,400 barrels whale oil.
Source
Goode, George Brown. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Volume II, Washington, 1887.
Antarctic sealing ground Falkland Islands. Rigging schooner. Left Stonington in December 1837, arrived home on 1 September 1838 with a full load of sea-elephant oil and whale oil.
Source
Goode, George Brown. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Volume II, Washington, 1887.
Antarctic sealing ground Crozet Islands. Rigging ship. Captain Bailey. Tonnage 261 tons. Left Mystic, Connecticut on 14 June 1837 and lost with tender schooner Colossus on the Crozets between 1837-1838.
Source
Goode, George Brown. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States.
Antarctic sealing ground Falkland Islands. Rigging ship. Tonnage 349 tons. Captain Beck. Left Stonington in October 1836, arrived home on 13 November 1837 with 1,400 barrels sea-elephant oil and 1,300 barrels whale-oil. Had as tenders the schooners La Grange and Bolton.
Source
Goode, George Brown. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Volume II, Washington, 1887.
Antarctic sealing ground ? Rigging ship. Tonnage 268 tons. Captain Carew. Left Stonington on 15 October 1836 for sealing but was burned at the Falkland Islands in 1837.
Source
Goode, George Brown. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Volume II, Washington, 1887.
Antarctic sealing ground South Atlantic. Tonnage 261 tons. Rigging ship. Captain Barnum, left New London on 17 May 1835 or 1836, returned on 9 April 1837 with 1,650 barrels sea-elephant oil.
Source
Goode, George Brown. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Volume II, Washington, 1887.
