Whaling Log of the Ship Nimrod, 1833-1835

• Main Author: Barnes, Captain Erastus
• Other Authors: Robert Barnes
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1833
• Subjects: Books; Whaling; Ships; Sag Harbor; Greenwich; Tristan; Nimrod; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15281coll2/id/12590

Whaling log of the ship, Nimrod. Pages 1-124: account kept aboard the whaling ship Nimrod, on a voyage from Sag Harbor, N.Y. to the Tristan da Cunha Islands (in the South Atlantic Ocean), 20 June 1833 - 13 June 1834, commanded by Erastus Barnes, Captain. Pp.'s 133-245: account kept aboard the whaling ship Nimrod, on a voyage from Sag Harbor, N.Y. to the South Atlantic, 26 July 1834 - 31 May 1835, commanded by Erastus Barnes, Captain. This is a particularly well kept book; on pp.'s 126-132 and 250-251 are compiled lists of: number of whales taken/struck/lost, date, location, # of lines lost/sunk during courses of both voyages (listed separately); lists of number of vessels taken on board; list of vessels spoken by ship; last page, p. 252, contains notes by Capt. Barns of his chronometer being slow of Greenwich Mean Time, with dates of Sunday the 25th July, 1835 (date of next voyage, recorded in separate journal), and April-May 1835 bearings listed.