February 29, 2024
1842 to 1863 New London, CT Almanac's by Nathan Daboll - Whaling Industry -Ships
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Four antique almanacs by Nathan Baboll and published and sol d by Starr & Franham Printers, New London, CT. T wo of these almanacs list the ships associated with the whaling tra de out of New London. Their dates are as follows: 1842, 1846, 1848 & 1863. This was an almanac especially popular with New England sailors and whalers. Starting in the 18 40s , for nearly 50 years this almanac provided an annual list of "Ships Engaged in the Whale Fishery". As the years went by, the list grew shorter and shorter, to only a pitiful list of less than a half-dozen ships by the early 1890s. The 1846 & the 1848 alm anac's contain t hree full pages are dedicated to a list of ships from New London, Stonington, Mystic, and Sag-Harbor. The list provides the name of each vessel, tonnage, Shipmaster's last name, Ship's Agents, and date sailed. Another list also breaks down by town the approximately 655 whaling vessels operating at that time from the different whaling ports in the US, which it says employed about 16,000 total seamen: New Bedford, Nantucket, New London, Sag Harbor, Fairhaven, Stonington, Warren, Provincetown, Newport, Westport, Edgarton, Mattapoisett, Mystic, Providence, Salem, Bristol, Fall River, Greenport, Sippican, Wareham, Plymouth, Boston, Cold Spring, Wilmington, Bridgeport, Holmes' Hole, and "other places". Besides the whaling
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