American Pacific Whaling Company
American Pacific Whaling Company was a 20th-century whaling company. The fleet worked the North Pacific and wintered in Meydenbauer Bay on Lake Washington, now part of Bellevue, Washington.[1] The company was founded in Seattle c. 1911 and possibly renamed to North Pacific Sea Products when subsumed by Consolidated Whaling Company with Canadian ownership in 1918.[2][3][4] In 1919, the company moved its headquarters to Bellevue.[5] American Pacific owned a whaling station at Bay City on Grays Harbor that operated between 1911 and 1925, processing up to 300 sperm, humpback, and finback whales a year.[6]
Fleet
[edit]The fleet included these whale catcher ships:[2]: card 8
- Aberdeen, built 1912
- Moran, built 1911
- Paterson, built 1911
- Westport, built 1912
References
[edit]- ^ Johnston 1991.
- ^ a b OAC 2014.
- ^ Webb 2011.
- ^ Matt McCauley (October 27, 2003), "Vessel Fresno burns in Meydenbauer Bay on April 4, 1923.", HistoryLink, Seattle: History Ink
- ^ EHC 2011.
- ^ Jones Photo Collection 2014.
Sources
[edit]- A Short History of Bellevue, Washington (PDF), Eastside Heritage Center, 2011, archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04, retrieved 2016-05-11
- Johnston, Steve (March 1, 1991), "Whale Festival In Bellevue Honors Oldtime Industry -- Whaling Ships Have Given Way To Yachts Today", The Seattle Times
- "Bay City photographs for American Pacific Whaling Co. circa 1920", Jones Photo Historical Collection, Anderson & Middleton, c. 2014, #3601_1, 2,3,4,5, 4716_1, 6016_1, 3602_1, 3602_1, 3603_1, 3604_1, 3605_1
- Vinnedge, Dale (2014), "Washington whaling", Pacific Northwest's Whaling Coast, Arcadia, pp. 59–88, ISBN 9781439648506
- Webb, Robert Lloyd (2011), On the Northwest: Commercial Whaling in the Pacific Northwest, 1790-1967, University of British Columbia Press, ISBN 9780774843157
- American Pacific Whaling Company photograph collection, 1915-1959, Online Archive of California, 2014, SAFR-02283, retrieved 2016-05-15
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