Balaena mysticetus – Bowhead whale; Defining Characteristics. Average 60 ft (18 m) in length; 110 tons (10,000 kg) in weight; Head is approx. 1/3 of length; Flippers are short and rounded; …

Captain Gardner went to sea for ten more years and in 1819 while in command of the ship Balaena of New Bedford became the first American whaling captain to stop at Hawaii. His final …

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Vessel: Rig: Age: Height: Skin: Augustus: Ship: Hair: Eye: Residence: Rank: Remarks : Master: CREW LIST FROM MICROFILM

Vessel: Rig: Age: Height: Skin: Balaena: Ship: 30: 5' 8" black: Hair: Eye: Residence: Rank: Remarks: black: New Bedford

Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) Grows to about 60 feet in length and weighs 100 tons or more; Prized by whalemen for quantity and quality of its blubber and baleen; Carries the …

The ship papers span from 1825-1864 and include a note of passenger transfer from the ship Albion to the ship Favorite; a logbook from an unidentified ship; an inward foreign manifest, a …

Vessel: Rig: Age: Height: Skin: Mattapoisett: Bark: 21: Dark: Hair: Eye: Residence: Rank: Remarks: Dark: New York, Ny

During the course of his journey, Aldrich was a passenger aboard the bark Eliza, the bark Hunter, the steam bark Balaena, the steam bark Lucretia, the steam bark Beluga, and the steam bark …

Vessel: Rig: Age: Height: Skin: Elizabeth Swift: Bark: 21: Dark: Hair: Eye: Residence: Rank: Remarks: Brown: Newark, Nj