The Dundee Whaling Fleet : : Ships, Masters and Men / / Malcolm Archibald.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Archibald, Malcolm,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (302 p.) :; 14 B/W illustrations

At the end of the 19th century, Dundee was Europe's premier Arctic whaling port. From humble beginnings in the 1750's this national industry had survived French and American wars, privateers, economic slumps, storms, heart-wrenching disasters and some amazing triumphs.From 1860 until the 1...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 The Progress of British Arctic Whaling
• 2 The Hunting Process
• 3 Prizes, Privateers and the Press
• 4 The Dundee Whaling Industry
• 5 Why They Hunted
• 6 The Greenland Whaling Ships
• 7 The Business of Whaling
• 8 The Whaling Masters
• 9 The Greenlandman’s Experience
• 10 The Last Hurrah: The Dundee Antarctic Expedition
• 11 Farewell to the Whaling
• 12 Twentieth Century Scottish Whaling
• Appendices
• Appendix 1 Ships of the Dundee Fleet
• Appendix 2 Dundee Ship Masters
• Appendix 3 Dundee Whaling Men
• Appendix 4 Dundee Whaling Ships Lost
• Appendix 5 Dundee Whaling Ship Companies
• Appendix 6 Letter about Impressing Seamen, 1803
• Appendix 7 Jute Batching Oil Advert
• Appendix 8 Dorothy Whaling Company Expenditure, 1830
• Glossary
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index of Whaling Ships and Other Vessels