American Offshore Whaling Crew Lists
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An interactive data viewer for this database is available on the Whaling History website.
https://whalinghistory.org/av/crew/

The database description is available on the Whaling History website.
https://whalinghistory.org/av/crew/about/


Credits

An earlier version of this database (Lund, Judith N., Elizabeth A. Josephson, Randall R. Reeves and Tim D. Smith. “American Offshore Whaling Voyages: a database.”) is available at https://nmdl.org.


Creative Commons License

American Offshore Whaling Crew Lists by New Bedford Whaling Museum, Nantucket Historical Association, and Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at https://whalinghistory.org/contact/.


Preferred citation

American Offshore Whaling Crew Lists, https://whalinghistory.org, New Bedford Whaling Museum, Nantucket Historical Association, and Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc.


Formats

This download package includes two data files. The 'crewlists' file contains a single row for each transcribed crew list; it contains 6,607 records. The 'crewentries' file contains one row for each crew member entry on a crew list; it contains 186,873 records. The linking key between the files is crewlistID. The files can be linked to the AOWV voyages file, which may be downloaded separately, by the voyageID column. The files are UTF-8 encoded with Unix line endings between records and no line breaks embedded within any data. Each file has column headings in row 1.


Additions & corrections

Users who have facts to add or who discover errors in the database are encouraged to submit them. We plan to update the online database annually. https://whalinghistory.org/participate/corrections/

Column Definitions & Code Tables are available on the Whaling History website.
https://whalinghistory.org/av/crew/columns/
