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 1910 and 1925, processing up to 300 sperm, humpback,and finback whales a year.[6]

Fleet

The fleet included these whale catcher ships:[2]:card 8

  • Aberdeen, built 1912
  • Moran, built 1911
  • Paterson, built 1911
  • Westport, built 1912

References

  1. ↑ Johnson 1991.
  2. 1 2 OAC 2014.
  3. ↑ Webb 2011.
  4. ↑ EHC 2011.
  5. ↑ Jones Photo Collection 2014.

Sources

  • A Short History of Bellevue, Washington (PDF), Eastside Heritage Center, 2011
  • 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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