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Revision as of 07:48, October 15, 2012
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
- 1 Suggested links
- 2 People mentioned in case
- 3 Places mentioned in case
- 4 Ships mentioned in case
- 5 Technology mentioned in case
- 6 Depositions
- 6.1 1. John Ely of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey in the County of Surrey Mariner aged twenty eight yeares
- 6.2 X. Thomas Damerell of Lymehouse in the parish of Stepney and County of Middlesex Mariner Master of the shipp the Owners Adventure and Commander alsoe of the Greyhound aged 37 yeares
- 6.3 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
- 7 C17th maps
- 8 Sources
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
- Deposition made on 18/12/1656
"the sayd Damarell sawe some fish spoute among the Ice neere where the sayd shipp lay and cryed out to the Company a whale a whale and commanded the sayd Maundrey and Gosling and the rest of the harponeeres to manne their shallops and make after the sayd ffish which they did, and comming up with the sayd ffish found them to bee certaine ffish called Jubartas, which are a ffish the English use not to fasten upon by reason of their swifte motion and for that they are of smale profitt and more dangerous to deal with than whales are; which the Company having discovered did not strike at the sayd fish..."[1]
X. Thomas Damerell of Lymehouse in the parish of Stepney and County of Middlesex Mariner Master of the shipp the Owners Adventure and Commander alsoe of the Greyhound aged 37 yeares
- Deposition made on 23/12/1656
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
- Deposition made in 29/01/1656 (i.e. modern 1667)
C17th maps
Edges’s map of "Greenland" (Spitzbergen), ca. 1611[2]
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)[3]
Ch. 1: A history of the whale fisheries (pp.11-38)
- ↑ Deposition of John Ely of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey in the County of Surrey Mariner aged twenty eight yeares, TNA, HCA 13/71 f.464r
- ↑ 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
