New_England_Whaling

New England Whaling Whaling is a business, an economic endeavor. Profits are sought from the products produced. A whale\'s cadaver was processed for lamp oil, candles, medicines, perfume, machinery lubricant, and corset staves. The first type of whaling done was shore whaling. Along the New England coast, Native Americans sent their boats out and speared one of the passing behemoths. This practice was followed by European settlers later, and then expanded to deep sea whaling where ships would go out for long spans of time whale hunting. The Dutch controlled whaling during the 17th century. The British followed in the 18th century as the chief whalers. During the 19th century, New Englanders led the way in whaling which peakedabout 1850 with its center being at New Bedford. In 1755, the Yankee whaling industry sent out 304 ships and 4,059 seamen operating out of Nantucket, Cape Cod, and New Bedford. Wages were based on a lay-system, or what could be described as profit-sharing. The more whales taken, the more money for all. At the end of a cruise, money received for the oil and bone would be tallied; then operating costs, the owner\'s profit, and the officers\' wages were subtracted. The crew then divided up whaling, whales, new, whale, bedford, right, mills, whalers, shore, england, park, out, oil, industry, history, century, time, sperm, operating, northern, museum, made, long, first, early, during, crew, coast, built, boats, years, voyages, turned, textile, ships, sent