Bayley primary-source trail
Richards identifies surviving Fortitude and Runnymede logbooks in the Sir William Crowther Collection, State Library of Tasmania. The book presents voyage tables, estimated earnings and estimates of whales taken, which are derived analytical estimates rather than direct population counts. The Wallaby account cites contemporary newspapers including the New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, alongside manuscript accounts.
Building a primary-source trail
The strongest way to follow Charles Bayley is through dated notices identifying his ships, their arrivals and departures, crews and reported catches. Wallaby and Fortitude belong in the same research trail, but an attribution to the captain should not be transferred automatically to every voyage.
Separating claims
A shipping notice proves a recorded movement; a catch report proves a reported catch; a retrospective biography can help connect them but is a different kind of source.
Explore connected books
Explore connected history
- Charles Bayley and Wallaby at Kāpiti in 1842
- Charles Bayley and the Wallaby at Kāpiti
- Bayley career catch estimates
- Bayley’s voyages and the scale of the hunt
- Captain Charles Bayley: Whaling Master 1813–1875
- Kāpiti — Blood, Oil and Bone
- Eleven ships off Kāpiti in 1837
- Wallaby crew absconded at Kāpiti
- Wallaby travelled between Kāpiti and southern ports
- Wallaby 1842 right-whale catch
- Fortitude 1843 return