Updated on 31 August 2026 | Alleghania (also registered as Alleghany) was a 96-ton, 70¾-foot-long, two-masted, billet-headed schooner built in Truro in 1846. The original master was Daniel C. Cook, who also owned the largest single tranche of shares in the ship: 4 of the 16. Subsequent masters were Philip Cook, Joshua S. Nickerson, Xenophen S. Rich, William Dyer, Edmund Graham, and Seth P. Snow.1 Alleghania went on 22 whaling voyages from 1852 to 1870, after which it was withdrawn.
1 “Alphabetical List of Ship Registers, District of Barnstable, Massachusetts, 1814-1913, Compiled From Original Documents Stored in the New Bedford Custom House,” prepared by the National Archives Project, 1938, accessible through HathiTrust.
2 American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database, by Judith N. Lund, Elizabeth A. Josephson, Randall R. Reeves, and Tim D. Smith; and Mystic Seaport Museum Inc., New Bedford Whaling Museum, and Nantucket Historical Association.