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Timeline of Key Events, Whaling Activity and Ships Lost
in the Western Arctic 1848-1914

Whaling Ships Lost 1848-1914

1849
Richmond

1851
America II
Mary Mitchell
Mexican
Brahmin
Acushnet
Ajax
Arabella
Armata
Cosmopolite
Globe
Henry Thompson

1852
Citizen
Huntress
Superior
Warren

1853
Liverpool II
Marcus

1856
Forward

1857
Indian Chief

1858
Napoleon II

1859
William Tell

1861
Caulaincourt
Polar Star

1864
Henry Kneeland

1865
Gratitude
Louisiana
Susan Abigai
Isabella
Jerieh Swift
Nimrod
Euphrates
Catherine
Sophia Thornton
William C. Nye
Waverly
Brunswick
Favorite
Hillman
Nassau
Martha II
Covington
General Williams
Isaac Howland
William Thompson
Congress II
Gypsey

1866
Ontario

1867
Congress

1868
Corinthian
Emeline
Hae Hawaii

1869
Eagle

1870
Elmira
Japan
Hibernia

1871
Oriole
Roman
Comet
Awashonks
Concordia
Gay Head
George
John Wells
Contest
Paiea
Mary
Emily Morgan
Navy
Florida
Henry Taber
Elizabeth Swift
Kohola
Seneca
Carlotta
Fanny
Monticello
Eugenia
Reindeer
Victoria
Minerva
Champion
Oliver Crocker
George Howland
William Rotch

Julian
J.D. Thompson
Massachusetts
Thomas Dickason

1872
Roscoe

1876
Illinois
Clara Bell
Java
Arctic
Marengo
Acors Barns
Onward
Camilla
Josephine
Desmond
St. George
Cornelius Howland
James Allen

1877
Three Brothers
W.A. Farnsworth
Cleone
Java

1878
Florence
William H. Allen

1879
Mercury
Mount Wollaston
Vigilant

1881
Daniel Webster

1882
North Star
Sappho

1883
Cyane
John Howland
Louisa

1884
Bowhead
Caleb Eaton
Sophia Johnson



1885
George and Susan
Mabel
Amethyst
Gazelle
Napoleon III
Rainbow

1886
Clara Light
John Carver

1888
Jane Gray
Young Phoenix
Fleetwing
Mary and Susan
Ino
Ohio

1889
Lucretia
Ohio II

1890
Thomas Pope
Eliza
Spy

1891
William Lewis

1892
Helen Mar
Alexander

1893
Emily Shroeder

1894
Abraham Barker
Reindeer

1895
Triton

1896
Hidalgo

1897
Orca
Navarch
Jesse H. Freeman

1898
Rosario

1901
Balaena
Grampus

1905
Laura Madsen

1906
Alexander

1908
Ivy

1909
Olga

1910
Helen Johnson

1912
Elvira
Karluk

Whales Captured
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