An Arctic Whaling Journal of 1791
In 1956 the University Library of Aberdeen acquired a journal written by one George Kerr, surgeon aboard the Aberdeen whaling ship Christian , during a voyage to the whale fisheries in the Greenland Sea, west and north-west of Spitsbergen. The voyage, which was in 1791, took them as far north as lat...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247400066717 2024-03-03T08:42:01+00:00 An Arctic Whaling Journal of 1791 Savours, Ann 1959 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400066717 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400066717 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 9, issue 63, page 534-546 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 1959 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400066717 2024-02-08T08:34:56Z In 1956 the University Library of Aberdeen acquired a journal written by one George Kerr, surgeon aboard the Aberdeen whaling ship Christian , during a voyage to the whale fisheries in the Greenland Sea, west and north-west of Spitsbergen. The voyage, which was in 1791, took them as far north as lat. 81° N. The journal is seventy-nine pages long, on quarto-sized paper, and written in brown ink in a good, clear hand. A number of whalers' log books exist, recording winds and tides and noting extraordinary events, there are also published memoirs covering several voyages or giving a picture of whaling in general—like William Scoresby's book which includes an exciting narrative of the voyage of the Esk , under his command, to Spitsbergen waters, and of her preservation under most difficult circumstances. Kerr's journal is a spirited day-to-day account of an eventful though profitless voyage—the ship returning “clean” with no catch. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Greenland Greenland Sea Polar Record Spitsbergen Cambridge University Press Arctic Greenland Kerr ENVELOPE(65.633,65.633,-70.433,-70.433) Polar Record 9 63 534 546 |
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In 1956 the University Library of Aberdeen acquired a journal written by one George Kerr, surgeon aboard the Aberdeen whaling ship Christian , during a voyage to the whale fisheries in the Greenland Sea, west and north-west of Spitsbergen. The voyage, which was in 1791, took them as far north as lat. 81° N. The journal is seventy-nine pages long, on quarto-sized paper, and written in brown ink in a good, clear hand. A number of whalers' log books exist, recording winds and tides and noting extraordinary events, there are also published memoirs covering several voyages or giving a picture of whaling in general—like William Scoresby's book which includes an exciting narrative of the voyage of the Esk , under his command, to Spitsbergen waters, and of her preservation under most difficult circumstances. Kerr's journal is a spirited day-to-day account of an eventful though profitless voyage—the ship returning “clean” with no catch. |
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