A trade so uncontrollably uncertain : a study of the English southern whale fishery from 1815 to 1860
My interest in the English southern whale fishery arose out ofa study in 1989 of the Journal of the whaleship, Vigilant, on a whaling cruise to the Pacific between 1831 and 1833. I The events of this voyage, made under the command of an American born, yet English-based whaling master, were fascinati...
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ftanucanberra:oai:openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au:1885/109378 2024-01-14T10:10:56+01:00 A trade so uncontrollably uncertain : a study of the English southern whale fishery from 1815 to 1860 Chatwin, Dale 2016-10-21T00:27:49Z viii, 192 leaves http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109378 https://doi.org/10.25911/5d7786551cd6e https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/109378/6/01%20Chatwin%20D%20Masters%20thesis%201996.pdf.jpg en eng b1975191 http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109378 doi:10.25911/5d7786551cd6e https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/109378/6/01%20Chatwin%20D%20Masters%20thesis%201996.pdf.jpg Whaling History Great Britain Thesis (Masters) 2016 ftanucanberra https://doi.org/10.25911/5d7786551cd6e 2023-12-15T09:36:13Z My interest in the English southern whale fishery arose out ofa study in 1989 of the Journal of the whaleship, Vigilant, on a whaling cruise to the Pacific between 1831 and 1833. I The events of this voyage, made under the command of an American born, yet English-based whaling master, were fascinating, and on completion of the task I had a good record of one English whaling voyage but many incomplete answers to questions of a wider nature concerning the trade. The main problem, one which I had encountered numerous rimes as I attempted to determine who owned the Vigilant and how profitable was its whaling cruise, was that there was very little evidence about the business side of English whaling at either a detailed or wider level. This thesis then looks at this other side of the English southern whaling trade it does not deal in depth with the events of any single cruise, the catching of whales or the numerous visits made by English whaleships to the many attractive islands of the Pacific or East Indies. It instead looks at English whaling as a business in the period after the Napoleonic Wars. Following the peace there was considerable growth in factory based production in England and the southern whaling trade was one of maritime trades to benefit from this new activity. Machines needed oil and the best machine oil came from the sperm whale. Reference is also made to the wider political and economic circumstances which first nurtured the southern whaling trade then later squeezed it out of existence. By the 1840s the southern whaling trade was a matter insignificant in the Government's trade policy. The thesis al so charts the price of sperm oil between 1 81 0 and 1860 and examines the demand for oil over the period. The need for oil to lubricate machines was not the only reason why sperm oil was in high demand in the post war economy. There are hints here and there in the whaling literature but it seems incredible that the extent of the use of sperm and other whale oils in domestic lighting has never been ... Master Thesis Sperm whale Australian National University: ANU Digital Collections Pacific |
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My interest in the English southern whale fishery arose out ofa study in 1989 of the Journal of the whaleship, Vigilant, on a whaling cruise to the Pacific between 1831 and 1833. I The events of this voyage, made under the command of an American born, yet English-based whaling master, were fascinating, and on completion of the task I had a good record of one English whaling voyage but many incomplete answers to questions of a wider nature concerning the trade. The main problem, one which I had encountered numerous rimes as I attempted to determine who owned the Vigilant and how profitable was its whaling cruise, was that there was very little evidence about the business side of English whaling at either a detailed or wider level. This thesis then looks at this other side of the English southern whaling trade it does not deal in depth with the events of any single cruise, the catching of whales or the numerous visits made by English whaleships to the many attractive islands of the Pacific or East Indies. It instead looks at English whaling as a business in the period after the Napoleonic Wars. Following the peace there was considerable growth in factory based production in England and the southern whaling trade was one of maritime trades to benefit from this new activity. Machines needed oil and the best machine oil came from the sperm whale. Reference is also made to the wider political and economic circumstances which first nurtured the southern whaling trade then later squeezed it out of existence. By the 1840s the southern whaling trade was a matter insignificant in the Government's trade policy. The thesis al so charts the price of sperm oil between 1 81 0 and 1860 and examines the demand for oil over the period. The need for oil to lubricate machines was not the only reason why sperm oil was in high demand in the post war economy. There are hints here and there in the whaling literature but it seems incredible that the extent of the use of sperm and other whale oils in domestic lighting has never been ... |
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A trade so uncontrollably uncertain : a study of the English southern whale fishery from 1815 to 1860 |
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A trade so uncontrollably uncertain : a study of the English southern whale fishery from 1815 to 1860 |
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