- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Tables in the Text
- Appendices of Statistical Information
- New Introduction
- Preface
- Part One: The Traditional Whaling Trades, 1604-1914
- Chapter 1 Northern Adventures and the Spitsbergen Trade, c. 1604-1670
- Chapter 2 Lost Hopes and Expensive Failures, c. 1670-1750
- Chapter 3 The Rise of the Greenland Trade, 1750-1783
- Chapter 4 The Boom in the Northern Fishery, 1783-c. 1808
- Chapter 5 Expansion South of the Arctic Seas, c. 1776-c. 1808
- Chapter 6 Decline in the North in the Early Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 7 Expansion and Failure of the Southern Fishery c. 1808-1840
- Chapter 8 The End of the Northern Fishery in the Late Nineteenth Century
- Part Two: The Modern Whaling Trade, 1904-1963
- Chapter 9 New Whaling Techniques
- Chapter 10 New Whaling Areas
- Chapter 11 Advances in Oil Technology
- Chapter 12 Expanding Fleets and the New Fishing Grounds, 1919-1920
- Chapter 13 Crisis and Contraction, 1929-1932
- Chapter 14 Regulated Recklessness, 1932-1939
- Chapter 15 The Final Fling, 1945-1963
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Select Bibliography
- Addional Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 5 Expansion South of the Arctic Seas, c. 1776-c. 1808
Chapter 5 Expansion South of the Arctic Seas, c. 1776-c. 1808
- Chapter:
- (p.81) Chapter 5 Expansion South of the Arctic Seas, c. 1776-c. 1808
- Source:
- The British Whaling Trade
- Author(s):
Gordon Jackson
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
For most people in the eighteenth century, and for most British people to this day, the whaling trade was synonymous with the Arctic voyages about which almost all the British whaling histories have been written. It is, however, important to remember that, despite its dramatic potential and home-spun quality, the Northern trade was no more than a subsidiary source of whale oil in the eighteenth century. Before 1770 it was rare for more than a tenth of peace-time imports to come from Greenland, and until the American Revolution the bulk of supplies came from the New England colonies. Imports from there averaged 3696 tuns in the years 1764-1775 compared with only 1168 tuns from Greenland....
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Tables in the Text
- Appendices of Statistical Information
- New Introduction
- Preface
- Part One: The Traditional Whaling Trades, 1604-1914
- Chapter 1 Northern Adventures and the Spitsbergen Trade, c. 1604-1670
- Chapter 2 Lost Hopes and Expensive Failures, c. 1670-1750
- Chapter 3 The Rise of the Greenland Trade, 1750-1783
- Chapter 4 The Boom in the Northern Fishery, 1783-c. 1808
- Chapter 5 Expansion South of the Arctic Seas, c. 1776-c. 1808
- Chapter 6 Decline in the North in the Early Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 7 Expansion and Failure of the Southern Fishery c. 1808-1840
- Chapter 8 The End of the Northern Fishery in the Late Nineteenth Century
- Part Two: The Modern Whaling Trade, 1904-1963
- Chapter 9 New Whaling Techniques
- Chapter 10 New Whaling Areas
- Chapter 11 Advances in Oil Technology
- Chapter 12 Expanding Fleets and the New Fishing Grounds, 1919-1920
- Chapter 13 Crisis and Contraction, 1929-1932
- Chapter 14 Regulated Recklessness, 1932-1939
- Chapter 15 The Final Fling, 1945-1963
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Select Bibliography
- Addional Bibliography
- Index
