List of Vessels Built in Mattapoisett


375 Vessels and
25 Vessels Built in Mattapoisett or Sippican/Marion
Years 1703 - 1878

Note: records are incomplete for 1700s and early 1800s

NOTE: Decimal vessel numbers are temporary numbers that were generated for this project. AS#### vessel IDs are from American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database, whalinghistory.org. Most of the vessels with temporary numbers are recorded in The Ports of Old Rochester: Shipbuilding at Mattapoisett and Marion and Shipbuilders of Mattapoisett but are not known to have been used for whaling.

SOURCES

American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database, https://whalinghistory.org, Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc. and New Bedford Whaling Museum. Accessed 2018-2019.
American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database, by New Bedford Whaling Museum and Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Essex Institute. Essex Institute Historical Collections. Salem, MA: Essex Institute. Vols. 33, 41; 1897, 1905. HathiTrust. Web. Accessed Feb. 1-15, 2014. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000681568

Lund, Judith N., Elizabeth A. Josephson, Randall R. Reeves and Tim D. Smith. "American Offshore Whaling Voyages: a database." National Marine Digital Library. Hosted by the Mystic Seaport Museum, c. 2001-2010. Web. Accessed November 15-30, 2013. https://www.nmdl.org/

Lund, Judith N., Elizabeth A. Josephson, Randall R. Reeves and Tim D. Smith. American Offshore Whaling Voyages: 1667 to 1927. New Bedford, MA: Old Dartmouth Historical Society - New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2010.

Mendell, Charles S., Jr. " Shipbuilders of Mattapoisett." Old Dartmouth Historical Sketches. Number 66 (1937).

Wood, Edward F. R., Jr. comp. with Judith Navas Lund. The Ports of Old Rochester: Shipbuilding at Mattapoisett and Marion. New Bedford, MA: New Bedford Whaling Museum/Quadequina Publishers, 2004.

List published online 2014. 2019: updated vessel ID format, removed 9 vessels built in Sippican/Marion, and, as noted, updated individual entries.

Information from the American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database, https://whalinghistory.org, by New Bedford Whaling Museum and Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Please consult respective source databases/publishers regarding copyright.

Published 2014, Mattapoisett Historical Society.
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