146 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



New Bedford iu June, 1820, for the Pacific Ocean, returuing ou the 

 27th of December, 1823, with 2,600 barrels of sperm-oil — the largest 

 amount procured Joy any one New Bedford ship to that date, and worth, 

 at the average price of oil in 1823, about $65,000. 



The ship Uncas, of Falmouth, Capt. Henry 0. Bunker, sailed in 1828 

 and returned in 1831, having been absent two years and eight months, 

 bringing a cargo of 3,468 banels of sperm-oil, worth about $88,000. 



The Loper, of Nantucket, Capt. Obed Starbuck, returned in Septem- 

 ber, 1830, after an absence of only fourteen months and fourteen days, 

 with 2,280 barrels of sperm-oil, worth, at the average price of oil, $50,000. 

 On her next voyage, under the command of John Cotton, she took 

 2,170 barrels of sperm -oil in less than eighteen months, and on the 

 voyage immediately preceding that of 1829-'30, under the command 

 of Captain Starbuck, she brought in 2,131 barrels of sperm-oil in less 

 than seventeen months. In less than sixty-two months she had per- 

 formed three Pacific Ocean voyages and landed 6,581 barrels of sperm- 

 oil. 



The ship Sarah, of Nantucket, Capt. Frederick Arthur, sailed for the 

 Pacific Ocean on the 26th of May, 1827, returning April 19, 1830, with 

 3,497 barrels of sperm-oil, valued at $89,000. This is the largest quantity 

 of sperm-oil ever brought into Nantucket from a single voyage. 



In 1830 the ship America, Capt. Shubael Cottle, sailed from Hudson, 

 N. Y., for the Pacific Ocean. She returned in 1823, after a voyage of 

 thirty-one months, bringing 3,180 barrels of sperm-oil. The value of 

 her cargo was about $80,000. 



The Magnolia, of New Bedford, Capt. George B. Worth, obtained a 

 cargo of 3,451 barrels of sperm-oil ou a voyage of forty-one mouths, 

 the value of which was $85,000. 



In 1838 there arrived at New Bedford the ship William Hamilton, 

 Capt. William Swain, with 4,060 barrels of sperm oil, having sent home 

 from the Western Islands on her passage out 121 barrels more, making 

 a total of 4,181 barrels, worth $109,269. 



In 1842 the America, Captain Fisher, brought into New Bedford 400 

 barrels of sperm and 4,300 barrels of whale oil, and 45,000 pounds of 

 bone, alter a voyage of 26 months, the entire cargo being woi'th $66,478. 

 In the same year the Maria, of Nantucket, Capt. Elisha H. Fisher, 

 returned from a 22 months' voyage with 2,413 barrels of sperm-oil, 

 bringing to the owners the sum of $70,000. 



In 1843 the Silas Richards, of Sag Harbor, returned with 3,600 bar- 

 rels of whale-oil, 220 of sperm, and 30,000 pounds of bone, having been 

 gone 28 months. The value of her cargo was $54,722. In the same 

 year the Bowditch, of Providence, carried into that port 3,500 barrels 

 of whale-oil and $10,000 worth of bone, the value of which cargo was 

 $47,485; she was gone 20 months. The schooner Cordelia, of Province- 

 town, also returned in 1843 from a four days' voyage with 120 barrels of 

 whale-oil and $100 of bone, worth $1,385 



