New Bedford Semi-Centennial Souvenir

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Excerpt from New Bedford Semi-Centennial Souvenir: Containing a Review of the History of the City, Together With Accounts of the Whale Fishery, the Early Industries, the Great Growth in the Cotton Manufacture and the Social and Economic ChangesNew Bedford, with an average of a whaleship arriving every day in the year, was a busy seaport, whose life and character can hardly be realized to-day unless aided by an imagination instructed by the recitals of some of the old sailors or residents of that period. During the War of the Rebellion, the whaling interest suffered severely. The Alabama burned many whaling vessels in 1862, near the Azores, and other rebel cruisers added to the destruction at other times and places. The Shenandoah, in June, 1865, captured in Behring Straits 27 whaling vessels, burn ing 24 of them, and of these 17 belonged in New Bedford. The loss to New Bedford was about a million and a half of dollars. A great disaster over took the whaling ¿eet September, 1871, when in a single day 33 ships were abandoned in the Arctic Ocean, hopelessly crushed or environed in the ice.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.