Archive Results For: Arctic
The Politics of Liverpool’s Northern Whaling Trade, 1750–1823
Whaling is a largely under-researched aspect of Georgian Liverpool’s maritime heritage. Nevertheless, some broad features of this trade are known. Indeed, Liverpool began sending whaling vessels to the Arctic in 1750, but by 1823 this trade had effectively collapsed at the port. However, there is one area in particular that has been especially overlooked by […] Read More
Filed under: Eighteenth Century | Nineteenth Century | Arctic
Subjects include: Whaling & Fishing
The Role of Foreign Experts in the Revival of Scottish Northern Whaling: 1750-1784
Occasional voyages were made by the British to engage in Northern Whaling from the 1630s but the trade only entered a period of rapid expansion from 1750 until, by 1823, the Scots had become the principal suppliers of Arctic whale products. Scottish companies hired experienced Dutch whalers to assist them from 1750 and then in […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Eighteenth C) | Arctic
Subjects include: Whaling & Fishing
Health and Safety in the British Deep-Sea Trawl Fisheries in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The paper makes comparisons between the working conditions for those working in deep sea trawlers especially apprentices in the late nineteenth century and the second half of the twentieth century. In the earlier period sailing smacks made up the majority of the fleet especially at Hull and Grimsby. Apprentices were used as crewmen and many […] Read More
Filed under: English Channel | North Sea | Other (Twentieth C) | Other (Nineteenth C) | Arctic
Subjects include: Manpower & Life at Sea | Shipbuilding & Design | Whaling & Fishing
Note: A Newly Discovered Arctic Whaling Journal of 1774
The discovery of a rare journal of a whaling voyage provides details of a voyage which would otherwise be unrecorded. Read More
Filed under: Other (Eighteenth C) | Arctic
Subjects include: Whaling & Fishing
‘Handsome Willie May’: a Reappraisal
Willie May (1849-1930) has been accused by historians of vanity, incompetence and unpopularity. His career spanned the sailing and “steam and torpedo” Navy. It merits reappraisal. Promoted methodically from sea duties, experimental vessels, European naval attache, royal yachts and the newest battleship, May acquired considerable experience and fame. Curiously, most of May’s appointments were relinquished […] Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | English Channel | North Sea | Mediterranean | Indian Ocean | Arctic
Subjects include: Battles & Tactics | Biography | Navies | Science & Exploration | Ship Handling & Seamanship | Submarines | Weapons
Coopers and Casks in the Whaling Trade 1800-1850
Most whale oil casks were fairly large which meant the staves were bigger, more numerous and the cask correspondingly more difficult to assemble. ‘A cooper at large work is an old man… at forty… his physical energies then are nearly all exhausted’, said one experienced cooper in 1850. The years they spent stooping over their […] Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | High Middle Ages | Other (Early Modern) | Other (Nineteenth C) | Other (Eighteenth C) | Shipwrecks | Arctic | Other (location)
Subjects include: Archaeology | Harbours & Dockyards | Historic Vessels, Museums & Restoration | Whaling & Fishing
200 Years of Admiralty Charts and Surveys
A scientific cartographer, Dalrymple was meticulous in everything he undertook. His charts were models of clarity and elegance, and as accurate as the surveys on which they were based. Most of the surveying and charting in the first half of the nineteenth century was more in support of trade than of military matters. The final […] Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | Napoleonic War | WW1 | North Sea | Mutiny & Discipline | Mediterranean | Other (Twentieth C) | Other (Nineteenth C) | Other (Eighteenth C) | Arctic | East India Company | Antarctic | Other (location)
Subjects include: Administration | Harbours & Dockyards | Historic Vessels, Museums & Restoration | Merchant Marines | Navies | Science & Exploration
‘We are Now in a Splendid Position for Whales’: Environmental Factors Affecting Nineteenth-Century Whaling in Baffin Bay
This paper examines both the environmental conditions and seasonal variations that impacted upon the Baffin Bay whale fisheries and the influence on whaling of the nature and habits of the Bowhead or Greenland Right that was the basis of these fisheries. Attention is drawn to the need for a successful whaling master to have a […] Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | Other (Nineteenth C) | Arctic
Subjects include: Whaling & Fishing
The Location and Mapping of the Camps and Cairns Associated with Sir John Franklin’s Last Arctic Expedition on the Northern Shores of King William Island
The disappearance in 1845 of the expedition led by Sir John Franklin, to explore part of the Arctic coastline of British North America has ever since been of abiding interest, and repeated expeditions to trace movements and establish causes. After briefly noting earlier efforts, the author concentrates on the 1989 expedition to relocate camp sites […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Nineteenth C) | Arctic
Subjects include: Archaeology | Science & Exploration
The Newcastle Whaling Trade 1752-1849
Whaling was widespread and lucrative in UK Ports from the mid 1700s to the mid 1800s .The article comprehensively analyses the whaling industry founded in Newcastle and Tyneside showing how it flourished and the reasons for its decline. It examines the investment costs, the impact of the government bounty, the fleet sizes and their catches and […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Nineteenth C) | Other (Eighteenth C) | Health at Sea | Arctic
Subjects include: Harbours & Dockyards | Manpower & Life at Sea | Merchant Marines | Shipbuilding & Design | Whaling & Fishing