448 HISTORY AND METHODS OP THE FISHERIES. 



Sea Fox, ship, sailed from New York for Falkland Islands in 1817, and arrived home in 1818 

 with 5,000 fur-seal skins and 1,000 barrels sea-elephant oil. 



William Thacher, ship Captain Tucker, sailed from New Bedford for Patagonia in May, 1817, 

 and arrived home February 7, 1818, full of sea-elephant oil. 



1818. 



Frederick, brig, sailed from Stonington in 1818, on a sealing voyage to Pacific Ocean; got a 

 cargo of 25,000 hair-seal skins on St. Mary's Island. 



Gleaner, brig, Captain Leslie, sailed from New Bedford for .Patagonia in May, 1818, and 

 arrived home January 10, 1819, with 1,030 barrels sea-elephant oil. 



Governor Hawkins, ship, Captain Coffin, sailed from Philadelphia in 1818 on a sealing voyage 

 and arrived home in 1819 with 4,000 fur-seal skins and 350 barrels sea-elephant oil. Captain 

 Coffin died on the voyage. 



1819. 



Gleaner, brig, Captain Leslie, sailed from New Bedford for Patagonia in May, 1819, and re- 

 turned March 19, 1820, with a cargo of sea-elephant oil. 



Hersilia, brig, Capt. James P. Sheffield, sailed from Stoningtou, Conn., in July, 1819, bound 

 on an exploring and sealing voyage, and arrived home in the spring of 1820 with 11,000 choice 

 fur-seal skins from New South Shetlands, the first cargo brought from those islands. 



1820. 



Diana, brig, Captain Bunker, sailed from Nantucket in 1820 on a sealing voyage to South 

 Atlantic Ocean. 



Esther O'Kane, schooner, of Boston, was at the South Shetlands on a sealing voyage in 1820. 



General Knox, ship, Captain Orne, sailed from Saletn, Mass., in 1820, for South Shetlauds, 

 and arrived home June 6, 1821, with 5,000 fur-seal skins and 600 barrels sea-elephant oil. 



Brig Henry and schooner Aurora sailed from New York in 1820, on a sealing voyage to South 

 Shetlands, and arrived home in 1821 with cargoes of fur-seal skins. 



Schooner Huntress, Capt. Chris. Burdick, and brig William and Nancy, Capt. Tristram Fol- 

 ger, sailed from Nantucket in 1820, on sealing voyages to Soutk Shetlauds, and arrived home in 

 1821. 



Nancy, brig, Captain Upton, sailed from Salem, Mass., in 1820, for Falkland and South Shet- 

 land Islands on a sealing voyage, and arrived home May 27, 1822, with 1,800 fur-seal skins and 

 100 barrels sea-elephant oil. 



A fleet of vessels sailed from Stonington, Conn., in fall of 1820 on sealing voyages to South 

 Shetlands. This was the first fleet fitted for sealing at these islands. Most of the vessels arrived 

 home in 1821, with an aggregate of 88,000 fur-seal skins and 1,007 barrels sea-elephant oil. The 

 brig Clothier was wrecked on the rocky shores of South Shetlands, and sealers tell me that por- 

 tions of the vessel may still be seen there. The names of the vessels were as follows : Sloop Hero, 

 Capt. Nath. Palmer; schooners Express, Captain Williams, and Free Gift, Captain Dunbar ; brigs 

 Catherine, Clothier, Emmeline, Frederick, and Hersilia. 



1821. 



Charity, brig, Captain Barnard, sailed from New York in 1821 for South Shetlands, and arrived 

 home in May, 1822, with 8,000 fur-seal skins and some oil. 



Essex, sloop, Captain Chester, sailed from Stoniugton in 1821 for South Shetlands, andarrived 



