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

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