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- ↑ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. (2014). Sailing Directions (Enroute): East Coast of Russia. U.S. Government, Springfield, Virginia.
- ↑ Mary Frazier, of New Bedford, July 8, 1855, Nicholson Whaling Collection (NWC); Mary Frazier, of New Bedford, July 14, 1858, NWC; Sea Breeze, of New Bedford, July 14-15, 1874, George Blunt White Library; Mary and Helen II, of San Francisco, Aug. 13, 1885, Kendall Whaling Museum.
- ↑ Mary Frazier, of New Bedford, July 9, 1855, NWC.
- ↑ Starbuck, Alexander (1878). History of the American Whale Fishery from Its Earliest Inception to the year 1876. Castle. ISBN 1-55521-537-8.
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