Leveller,
I have some Hull whaling songs somewhere but not from recent tradition. Bert Lloyd once claimed there were songs in the Hull Museums whaling logs much like the ones found in the American whaling logs published by Gale Huntington, BUT I think this was another of Bert's little fancies. I have spoken to long-term curator Arthur Credland and he says there aren't any! The ones I've seen are ships' logs of whales caught, the state of the weather, and reports of other ships met with, full stop.

Dick, the little booklet referred to put together by RoyP shows Kidson's actual oral material was quite small when compared with more recent collections in Yorkshire like the Hudleston Collection. Kidson was an expert on early song of all types. Apart from Traditional Tunes which also contains Scottish material, his other published song collections are gleaned from all sorts of sources. He also had a decent collection of broadsides most of which ended up in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow. If you desire greater detail do ask.