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. OAC 2014.
  3. Webb 2011.
  4. EHC 2011.
  5. Jones Photo Collection 2014.

Sources

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