British whalers did latterly hunt the sperm in the Pacific but predominantly the British Arctic crews were sourced from the East Coast and the Shetlands; and their other maritime experience, if any, would have been in the North Sea and through to the Baltic. Off the top of my head chanteying seems to have been mainly an Atlantic/Pacific phenomenon and generally this would have involved seamen from the south and west coasts, Southampton, Portsmouth, Swansea, Bristol, Liverpool, Glasgow.

Please pull this logic to bits if I'm wrong. As far as I'm aware there are no records of any 19thc seamen from the Humber area singing chanteys, except in Bert Lloyd's imagination and that was 20th century anyway.