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Historic Fisheries
History and Methods of Fisheries
Whale and Porpoise
Historic Fisheries
Map of the world on Mercator's projectionShowing the extent and distribution of the present and abandoned whaling groundsPrepared by A. Howard Clark in 1880
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Fig. 1. The sperm whale. Fig. 2. The California gray whale. Fig. 3The North Pacific humpback whale. Fig. 4. The sulphur-bottom whaleFig. 5. The finback or Oregon finner Fig. 6. The Pacific right whaleFig. 7. The bowhead whale. From Report U. S
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Whaling vessels fitted out at New Bedford wharvesFrom a photograph by T. W. Smillie
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Whaling schooner Amelia, of New Bedford, MassachusettsDrawing by C. S. Raleigh
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Steam whaling-bark Mary & Helen, of New Bedford, MassachusettsAfterwards the Rodgers of the Jeanette search expeditionDrawing by C. S. Raleigh
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Deck plan and side and interior plan of whaling-schooner AmeliaOf New Bedford, MassachusettsDrawing by C. S. Raleigh
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Deck plan and side and interior plan of whaling-bark Alice KnowlesOf New Bedford, MassachusettsDrawing by C. S. Raleigh
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Starboard quarter of a whale-shipShowing the manner of transporting the captain's boat and the spare boats
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Deck view of whale-boat equipped with apparatus of capture, &c.;Drawing by C. S. Raleigh
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Side and interior plan of whale-boat equipped with apparatus of capture, &c.;Drawing by C. S. Raleigh
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Articles of whale-boat gear. 1. Lantern keg containing matches, bread,&c.; 2Boat compass. 3. Water keg. 4. Piggin for bailing water5. Waif for signaling. 6. Tub oar crotch. 7. Double oar-lock 8. Large line in line-tub. 9. Knife to cut lin
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Whalemen's harpoons. Fig. 1. Improved harpoon or toggle-iron now in useFig. 2, 3. First form of toggle-iron made by Lewis TempleFig. 4. One-flued harpoon with hinged toggle. Fig. 5. One-flued harpoonFig. 6. Two-flued harpoonFig. 7. Toggle-iro
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English harpoons. Fig. 1. Old-style harpoon; now little usedFig. 2. Hand harpoon in general use about 1857Fig. 3. Hand-harpoon now in general use on Scotch whalersDrawings by Capt. William Adams, Dundee, Scotland
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Fig. 1. English harpoon-gun and gun-harpoon now in use on Scotch whalersFig. 2. An early form of English whaling-gunFig. 3, 4, 5. Mason and Cunningham mounting boat-gun; a recent invention
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Fig. 1. Pierce and Cunningham darting-gun; a combined harpoon and lanceUsed largely by Arctic whalemen. Fig. 2. Cunningham and Cogan gunLength, 33 inches; weight, 27 pounds; used by Arctic whalers with bomb lanceFig. 3. Brand muzzle-loading whalin
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Fig. 1, 2, 3, 4. Pierce bomb-lanceFig. 5. Pierce and Eggersbreech-loading gun
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Whaling rocket
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Boat fastened to whale by harpoon and line; killing the whale with bomb lanceFrom painting by J. S. Ryder
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Natives harpooning the beluga, or white whale, at Cook's Inlet, AlaskaDrawing by H. W. Elliott, 1883
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Aleuts planting glass, obsidian, and jade darts in school of humpback whalesAt Akoon Island, Bering Sea, AlaskaDrawing by H. W. Elliott, 1883
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