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Journal on board the whaling ship Massachusetts

  • AU PMB MS 1038
  • Collection
  • 1836 - 1840

James Warden Brett (1815-1846) was born in Kent, England and was entered on the books of the MASSACHUSETTS as the harpooner of the larboard whaleboat. Brett was twenty-one years old when he began his journal and the voyage which was to last for three and a half years. He died in Bombay, at the age of thirty-one, while captain of the ship WEST INDIAN. In the latter half of the 19th century the journal narrowly escaped being buried or burnt during a clearing out by the Widow Brett of Raymond Terrace. A family friend retrieved the journal which he later presented to Mr Percy Thomas, grand nephew of James Brett, in July 1893. The journal also suffered considerable damage during the Maitland flood of 1954. As a result some pages are missing and others are almost illegible.

The journal begins on Wednesday 7 December, 1836, when the ship sailed from New Bedford, Massachusetts on a whaling voyage to the South Seas under Captain George F. Brown. Brett describes in great detail the activities of a harpooner, life on board a whaling ship in general, the many other ships they spoke and all the events experienced during their landfalls and their time at sea. The journal ends on Sunday 19 July, 1840. The voyage included the Peruvian coast, Galapagos Islands, Hawaiian Islands, Guadaloupe, the Mexican coast, Juan Fernandes, Massafeuro, Quiraquina and Talcahuano Bay.

Brett, James Warden

Whaling logbooks, and other documents, copied in New England (USA) repositories

  • AU PMB MS 207
  • Collection
  • 1830 - 1840

Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200

For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984.Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited.
LYDIA; Howie; 1835-37; Continued from reel PMB 206<BR>GEORGE; Endicott; 1830-31; India<BR>BLACK WARRIOR; Mugford; 1835; New Zealand, Australia<BR>(NAME UNKNOWN); ?; 1836; Whaling voyage<BR>ELIZABETH; ?Hedge; 1836-40; Pacific Ocean<BR>JOSEPH PEABODY; ?Moore; 1836- 37; Hawaii, California<BR>MERMAID; Cheever; 1836-37; New Zealand, Tahiti, Fiji<BR>SAPPHIRE; Smith; 1836; Whaling Cruise

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Whaling logbooks, and other documents, copied in New England (USA) repositories

  • AU PMB MS 206
  • Collection
  • 1831 - 1841

Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200

For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. TYBEE; Driver; 1832-33; Continued from reel PMB 205 ELIZA; Winn; 1833-35; New Zealand, Fiji, Manila ELIZA; Winn; 1833-34; Fiji PERU; Eagleston; 1831; Fiji BLACK WARRIOR; Mugford; 1834; Australia BLACK WARRIOR; Mugford; 1834; Australia BLACK WARRIOR; Mugford; 1834-35; Australia, New Zealand, Society Islands BLACK WARRIOR; ?Mugford; 1834; Australia, New Zealand BLACK WARRIOR; ?; 1837-; Australia PALLAS/NAPLES; Archer; 1834-36; New Zealand, Fiji, Manila L.C.RICHMOND; ?; 1834; Tonga, Marquesas, Tahiti CONSUL; Chapman; 1834-35; Fiji, Manila, Society Islands ELIZA; ?Radcliff; 1838-41; New Zealand, Kermadecs TIGRES; Howe; 1834; Madagascar PALINURE; Endicott; 1835-36; Australia LYDIA; Howie; 1835-37; New Zealand

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Whaling logbooks, and other documents, copied in New England (USA) repositories

  • AU PMB MS 362
  • Collection
  • 1834 - 1842

Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200

For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. ABIGAIL; Clark; 1834; Pacific MAGNOLIA; Barnard; 1838-42; Pacific

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Journal of the United States exploring expedition

  • AU PMB MS 416
  • Collection
  • 11 August 1840 - 19 February 1842

Captain William L. Hudson was commander of the US ship Peacock, one of the vessels of the United States Exploring Expedition to the Pacific, 1838-42, commanded by Commodore Charles Wilkes. He later transferred his flag to the Porpoise.

The journal begins when the expedition was en route from Fiji to Honolulu, and gives an account of the PEACOCK's visits to the Hawaiian Islands, Oregon, Southern California, the Line, Phoenix and Tokelau Islands, Samoa, the Ellice and Gilbert Islands (Tuvalu and Kiribati), and the wreck of the PEACOCK at the mouth of the Columbia River on the west coast of North America. After Hudson had transferred his flag to the USS PORPOISE, he crossed the Pacific to the Philippines, Sooloo Islands and Singapore. (The journal is a continuation of that filmed as PMB 146, which covers the Expedition's activities from 20 August 1838 to 8 August 1840)

Hudson, William L.

Expedition narrative and sketchbooks

  • AU PMB MS 539
  • Collection
  • 1838 - 1842

The United States Exploring Expedition, under the command of Commodore Charles Wilkes, made an extensive survey of many Pacific island groups. After rounding Cape Horn in March 1839, the expedition visited the Tuamotu Archipelago, Society Islands, Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, and the Phoenix, Tokelau, Gilbert and Ellice (now Tuvalu) Islands. The expedition returned to the United States via the Cape of Good Hope in June 1842.

There are three sets of documents:<BR><BR>1. A narrative of the expedition by George M. Colvocoresses, a lieutentant.<BR>2. Sketchbooks made by George F. Emmons, 1839-41, an officer of the <I>Peacock</I><BR>3. Sketchbooks made by Henry Eld, Jr., 1838-42

United States Exploring Expedition

Journal

  • AU PMB MS 89
  • Collection
  • 7 August 1838 - 22 June 1842

Alden was an officer in the sloop-of-war 'Vincennes', the flagship of the United States Exploring Expedition which spent four years in the Pacific under the command of Commodore Charles Wilkes.

The journal gives an account - but not a day-by-day account - of the Vincennes voyage which took in the Tuamotu Archipelago, Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, the Antarctic, Hawaii, the Gilbert (Kiribati), Ellice (Tuvalu) and Marshall Islands. See also PMB MS 124-146 and the Bureau's newsletter, Pambu, Dec. 1971:25, pp. 4-7.

Alden, James

Catalogue of ethnographical collections

  • AU PMB MS 124
  • Collection
  • 1838 - 1842

A catalogue of the ethnographic items collected by the United States Exploring Expedition to the Pacific (1838-42) led by Commodore Charles Wilkes. The Expedition visited the Tuamotu Islands, Tahiti (in French Polynesia), Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Lord Howe Island, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), Marshall Islands, and Hawaii. The catalogue was prepared in 1846 by Titian Ramsay Peale, an artist-naturalist with the Expedition. A typescript version, prepared by the PMB, follows the original document on the microfilm. See also the Bureau's newsletter, Pambu, October-December 1971:25, pp. 4-7 and PMB MS 89 and MS 146.

United States Exploring Expedition

Whaling logbooks, and other documents, copied in New England (USA) repositories

  • AU PMB MS 209
  • Collection
  • 1835 - 1843

Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200

For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984.<BR>Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited.<BR>SAPPHIRE; Smith; 1836; Whaling Cruise<BR>REAPER; ?Jackson; 1835-37; Whaling Cruise<BR>BENGAL; ?Jackson; 1837-40; Whaling Cruise<BR>MALAY; ?Barnard; 1839-42; (not copied)<BR>SAPPHIRE; Ward; 1838-39; Tahiti, Pitcairn<BR>PALESTINE; Crimblis?; 1839-42; Indian Ocean, Australia<BR>PALESTINE; Coffin; 1939-41; Whaling Cruise<BR>EMERALD; Nichols; 1838-40; Indian Ocean, Australia<BR>SAPPHIRE; Crowell; 1839-41; South America, Hawaii<BR>SAPPHIRE; ?; 1842; Continued from previous<BR>EMERALD; Gunn; 1840-43; East Indies, Australia, New Zealand<BR>

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