These logbooks are from the Nicholson Whaling Collection at the Providence Public Library. Additional logbooks will be provided by the New Bedford Whaling Museum via Digital Commonwealth.
| Ship Name | Start | End | Example |
| Abraham Barker | 1853 | 1857 | |
| Active | 1852 | 1871 | |
| Addison | |||
| Alfred Gibbs | |||
| Amelia | |||
| Antilla | |||
| Arab | |||
| Arctic | |||
| Barbarita | |||
| Barnstable | |||
| Beluga | |||
| Belvedere | |||
| Bowditch | |||
| Cachalot | |||
| California | |||
| Cambria | |||
| Camilla | |||
| Chandler Price | |||
| Commodore Preble | |||
| Congresso | |||
| Corinthian | |||
| Cornelius Howland | |||
| Courser | |||
| Covington | |||
| Daniel Wood | 1852 | 1865 | |
| Desdemona | |||
| Emma C. Jones | |||
| Enterprise | |||
| Florida | |||
| Fortune | |||
| Frances A. Barstow | |||
| Franklin | |||
| Franklin II | |||
| Gay Head II | |||
| George | |||
| George Washington | |||
| Glacier | |||
| Goethe | |||
| Governor Troup | |||
| Greyhound | |||
| Hecla | |||
| Henry Taber | |||
| Isabella | |||
| James Andrews | |||
| Janus II | |||
| Java | |||
| Java II | |||
| Karluk | |||
| Korea | |||
| Kutusoff | |||
| Lydia |
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| Majestic | |||
| Mary | 1852 | 1865 | |
| Mary | |||
| Mary and Susan | |||
| Mattapoisett | |||
| Minerva | |||
| Minerva | |||
| Monterey | |||
| Monticello | |||
| Nassau | |||
| Navy | |||
| Nimrod | |||
| Ocean | |||
| Omega | |||
| Ontario II | |||
| Onward | |||
| Pacific | |||
| Petrel | |||
| President | |||
| President | |||
| President II | |||
| Rambler | |||
| Rousseau | |||
| Sarah Sheafe | |||
| Sea Breeze | |||
| Sea Perla | |||
| Shaw Perkins | |||
| Sophia Thornton | |||
| Speedwell | |||
| St. George | |||
| Talma | |||
| Tamerlane | |||
| Thomas Dickason | |||
| Two Brothers | |||
| Vineyard | |||
| William Rotch | |||
| William Wirt | |||
| Wolga |