Our whaling master, Owen H. Tilton was (is) a record holder.

Again thanks to the great research skills of our "first mate"...... Bev.... we have this interesting find.

From The Story of the New England Whaler by John R. Spears, 1908, Page 168, The MacMillian Company. Digitized by Google

..... the record sperm whale reported at New Bedford was captured by Captain Owen H. Tilton. It produced 154 barrels of oil.

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Here is the original mention made in 1875 by Captain Benjamin Russell of the record set by Captain Tilton. This statement was published in Whales and Porpoises by George Brown Goode, Page 11. Digitized by Google.


Based entirely on the dates in the records I would speculate that the record "154 barrels" would have been set on the Marcella (Starbuck's pg. 630) on the 1869-1873 voyage. Two years later Captain Benjamin Russell makes the statement above. The following year 1876 Owen H. Tilton was the Master on the Tropic Bird (Starbuck's pg. 656).