C17th Arctic whaling
C17th Arctic whaling
Editorial history
15/10/12: CSG created page
Purpose of this page
This week (W/C 15/10/12) Jill's and Colin's teams are working on a case involving a failed whaling adventure to the Arctic Ocean ("Batson against Goslin and others")
We plan to publish a blog article on the case, placing it in a broader context of the whaling fisheries off Spitzbergen in the 1650s. (The first thing to not is that C17th "Greeneland" is what we now call "Spitzbergen")
Jill and Colin would like to encourage their team members to use this page to share quotes, and to explore places, people and activities mentioned in the pages they are transcribing
Contents
Suggested links
People mentioned in case
Places mentioned in case
Ships mentioned in case
The Owners Adventure
The Greyhound
Technology mentioned in case
Depositions
(1) John Ely of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey in the County of Surrey Mariner aged twenty eight yeares
(6) 6. Richard Kirton of Ratcliff in the parish of Stepney and County of Middlesex Overseer of the Landsmen in the XXXX XXXX XXXXX aged forty yeares
C17th maps
Edges’s map of "Greenland" (Spitzbergen), ca. 1611[1]
Sources
Primary sources
Secondary sources
James Travis Jenkins, A history of the whale fisheries: from the Basque fisheries of the tenth century to the hunting of the finner whale at the present date (London, 1921)[2]
Ch. 1: A history of the whale fisheries (pp.11-38)
- ↑ James Travis Jenkins, A history of the whale fisheries: from the Basque fisheries of the tenth century to the hunting of the finner whale at the present date (London, 1921), facing p.58, http://archive.org/stream/historyofwhalefi00jenkrich#page/n65/mode/1up, viewed 15/10/12
- ↑ http://archive.org/stream/historyofwhalefi00jenkrich#page/n7/mode/2up, viewed 15/10/12
