Nicholson Whaling Collection Logbooks

The Nicholson Whaling Collection is one of the nation’s most important resources for whaling research. At the heart of the collection is the world’s second largest collection of whaling logbooks, recording more than 1,000 voyages. Within their pages, the logbooks hold records of whales captured and lost; accounts of shipwrecks, mutinies and other nautical misfortunes; poetry and paintings made by crew members in their spare time; and a wealth of data for researchers. The collection was donated to the Library in 1956 by Paul C. Nicholson, grandson of the founder of the Nicholson File Company, and it now includes more than 15,000 items, ranging from prints, photographs, scrimshaw and other artifacts to an extensive collection of manuscripts and account books. The earliest materials date from the 1700s and include a contract in which a Native American whaler agrees to be part of the crew of a 1723 whaling voyage. Hundreds of logbooks document the 19th-century high point of the whaling trade. This important collection continues to grow, thanks to an endowment provided by the Nicholson family

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Logbook of the Leonora (Brig) out of New Bedford, MA, mastered by William B. Ellis, on a whaling voyage between 1902 and 1906.

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Contains whale stamps. At end: list of whales raised and by whom; provisions used; oil stowed; poetry headed: Bark WANDERER, 1914-1921.

Logbook of the Leonidas (Ship) out of Fairhaven, MA, mastered by Heman N. Stewart, on a whaling voyage between 1837 and 1839.

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Contains whale stamps.

Logbook of the Leonidas (Ship) out of Bristol, RI, mastered by Henry Cleveland and kept by Swain Alexander, on a whaling voyage between 1830 and 1833.

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Logbook of the Leonidas (Brig) out of Fall River, MA/Westport, MA, mastered by Peleg Cornell, on a whaling voyage between 1847 and 1850.

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Contains sketches of whales. Transferred to Westport in 1848.

Logbook of the Leonidas (Brig) out of Fall River, MA, mastered by Ensign Baker, on a whaling voyage between 1841 and 1842.

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Logbook of the Laurel (Schooner) out of New Bedford, MA, mastered by Granville Manter on a whaling voyage between 1837 and 1838.

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Logbook of the Lancer (Ship) out of New Bedford, MA, mastered by William Jenkins Macy, on a whaling voyage between 1865 and 1868.

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Contains whale stamps. At front: crew list. At end: stamps of whales taken.

Logbook of the Lancer (Bark); mastered by Albert Lewis, B. Chase Henry and James H. Fisher; on whaling voyages between 1877 and 1881.

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Contains whale stamps. At front: list of crew members.

Logbook of the Lalla Rookh (Ship) out of New Bedford, MA, mastered by Owen Reynard, on a whaling voyage between 1841 and 1844.

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Contains whale stamps.

Logbook of the Lalla Rookh (Ship) out of New Bedford, MA, mastered by James R. Bassett, on a whaling voyage between 1837 and 1840.

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Contains whale stamps. At end: slops accounts; descriptions of whaling grounds.

Logbook of the Lafayette (Ship) out of New Bedford, MA, mastered by Lorenzo Smith, on a whaling voyage between 1844 and 1847.

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Contains whale stamps. At end: list of oil stowed.

Logbook of the Laetitia (Bark) out of New Bedford, MA, mastered by Joseph Stowell, on whaling voyages between 1857 and 1866.

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Two voyages: June 11, 1857-June 25, 1860. Sherman 454. And Sept. 2, 1864-May 13, 1866. Sherman 455. At end: separate entries for "Whales seen and taken on the voyage," May 19, 1866-Feb. 6, 1868. Contains whale stamps, pencil sketches of whales. At end: oil records of first voyage.