Marine Biology & Oceanography

» John Blatchford - Data from Old Logbooks

In the same way that information gathered by shell-collectors can be useful, the content of old ships logbooks can be extremely valuable. This is especially true when there are references to whales - giving the species, date and location of the sightings.
Anyone who has access to an antique logbook, especially one from a whaling vessel, ought to make the information available to others.
If any readers are in this (enviable!)position, particularly if they have already published the information (electronically or in print), we could use this discussion forum to disseminate the information. It might also be helpful by encouraging others to publish their own data.

Permalink Print Discussion Email Discussion How to subscribe to feeds

» KBRASURE - Data from Old Logbooks

In response to Data from Old Logbooks posted by johnblatchford:

John: I recently inherited a whaling log book from 1853, 54, 56 and 57. All the pages are legible and the reading is very interesting. It is 390 pages long, I believe. I have been trying to find out more about the captain. It makes no reference to him except for an initial.

Kara

-- posted by KBRASURE

Permalink Print Discussion Email Discussion How to subscribe to feeds

» sammccoy - Data from Old Logbooks

In response to Data from Old Logbooks posted by KBRASURE:

Kara: What area of the world does this whaling log book cover? and is 1855 missing from the middle part of the book or is it just split in half?

Sam

-- posted by sammccoy

Permalink Print Discussion Email Discussion How to subscribe to feeds