Produced by Brownfox and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) TRANSCRIBERS’ NOTES Italic text in the original is surrounded by _underscores_. Blackletter (Gothic type) text is surrounded by =equals=. Corrections and other notes are recorded at the end of the text. =My Father.= [Illustration: Wm. Scoresby] MEMORIALS OF THE SEA. =My Father:= BEING RECORDS OF THE ADVENTUROUS LIFE OF THE LATE WILLIAM SCORESBY, ESQ. OF WHITBY. BY HIS SON THE REV. WILLIAM SCORESBY, D.D. FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON AND EDINBURGH; MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE; OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE, PHILADELPHIA, ETC. ETC. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS. 1851. LONDON: PRINTED BY M. MASON, IVY LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW. TO THE LADY MATILDA MAXWELL, WHOSE DISCERNMENT OF AN UNUSUAL AND SUPERIOR CHARACTER IN A MERCHANT SEAMAN, WHEN KNOWN ONLY BY REPORT, FIRST LED TO THE GATHERING OF RECORDS CONCERNING HIM; AND TO WHOSE EXPRESSIONS OF DEEP AND ADMIRING INTEREST IN THE RELATION, REPEATEDLY SOLICITED, OF MANY CHARACTERISTIC INCIDENTS, THEIR PUBLICATION IS STRICTLY DUE,— =This Volume,= COMPRISING THE OFT-TOLD STORIES, WITH ADDITIONAL RECORDS, OF THE ADVENTUROUS LIFE OF =His Father,= IS, WITH GREAT RESPECT AND SINCERE REGARD, NOW ADDRESSED, BY HER LADYSHIP’S FAITHFUL AND OBLIGED FRIEND, THE AUTHOR. _Torquay, Feb. 3, 1851._ =My Father.= CONTENTS. Page CHAPTER I.—EARLY LIFE AND PROGRESS AS A SEAMAN 3 SECT. 1. My Father’s early Life 3 2. His First Year’s Apprenticeship 12 3. His Progress as a Seaman, with Incidents of Sea-life 20 4. Capture by the Enemy, and Escape from a Spanish Prison 26 5. Rewards of Masterly Seamanship 31 6. Entrance on, and Progress in Training in, the Greenland Whale-fishery 36 CHAPTER II.—COMMENCEMENT AND PROGRESS IN WHALE-FISHING ENTERPRISE AS COMMANDER 42 SECT. 1. Disappointment in his First Command 42 2. His Second Adventure and commencing Prosperity 52 3. Further Successes, with their comparative Relations, in the Ship Henrietta 55 4. Episodical Incident—the Rescue of endangered Pleasurers 65 5. The Greenland Doctor 71 6. Taming of a Bear—interesting Recognition 78 CHAPTER III.—THE SHIP DUNDEE, OF LONDON 86 SECT. 1. Entrance on, and general Results of, this new Command 86