Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale Fishery

Scoresby, William Jr. 1823

Papers for the Scoresby Family are held at Mystic Seaport Museum.See https://research.mysticseaport.org/coll/coll055/

William Scoresby Jr. was born in 1789, and at age 21 was master of the whaler RESOLUTION. After a very successful whaling career he continued his scientific and religious studies, receiving a degree of D. D. from Cambridge in 1839. He died at Torquay in 1857.

Mystic Seaport Museum call #Rare Books G 742  S4.4

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