HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WHALE FISHERY. 

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Pacific Ocean 



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Datc- 



Sept. 29 

 June 14 



Jnlv 31 

 Aug. — 



July 31 



May 6 



Juno 11 



Mnv 2fi 

 July 2 



Sept. 13 

 Auii. 7 

 Nov. 2 



Dec. - 

 Sept. 20 



Dec. 31 



Aug. 9 

 July 10 

 Nov. 7 



Nov. 16 

 June 20 

 July 7 

 Dec. 17 

 July 12 



Aug. 17 



Oct. 6 

 Nov. 11 



Apr. 18 



Mar. 10 

 Apr. 16 

 Mar. 23 



Sept. 8 

 June 26 



Aug. — 

 July 2r> 

 Oct. 23 

 July 28 



April 3 



Juno 20, 1850 

 Nov. 11,1847 



June 18, 1848 

 Oct. 15,1847 



Sept. 9,1817 



May 4, 1848 



Oct. 18, 184;> 



Sept. 26, 1850 

 Apr. 24, 1850 



Dec. 2, 1849 

 June 12, 1850 

 Nov. 15, 1846 



May 10,18.31 

 June 27, 1850 



May 15,1851 



Apr. 1,1851 

 Apr. 30, 



Ang. 16, 1851 

 Oct. £0,1347 

 July 15,1851 

 Oct. — , 184(! 

 dune 17, 1850 



Apr. 1, 1849 



May 19, 1851 



Apr. 18, 1846 



Nov. 15, 1846 

 Oct. 2.5, 1840 

 Sei)t. 13, 184(; 

 Aug. 11,1346 

 Juno 23, 1848 

 Sept. 17, 1847 

 Aug — , 1840 

 Sept. V\ 184G 

 Oct. — , 1846 

 Sppt. 25, 1847 

 May 26, 1847 

 May '-, 1848 

 Oct. 13, 1847 

 Oct. 4, 1846 



Result of voyage. 



BV.s 

 5C 



,28f 



, 2o: 



40 

 80 

 195 

 6ir 



250 

 23r 

 40 

 285 

 207 



i.:o 



40 



2.')0 

 180 

 250 



BbU 

 1,500 



183 



170 



1,635 



Kemarka. 



LU. 

 9,000 



3,000 



1.5, 000 



12, 20C 



Sent home 129 sperm, 4,000 pounds bone ; 



sold to Nf w Bedloid 1850. 

 Sold to Nantucket 1848. 



Added 1846. 



Condemned and broken up at Westport 

 1848. 



Returned in consequence of a defective 

 foromasi. 



Sailed March 18 ; returned April 6, having 

 lost her five boats and davits, and sus- 

 tained other damage, in a gale ; sent home 

 200 barrels 1846. 



Second mate ditd from a wound received 

 in cutting in ; sent homo 125 sperm. 



Built 1846, at Medford. 

 Reuben Coleman, second mate, died Au- 

 gust 29. In49. 

 Sent home 85 barrels sperm. 



Retnrned leaking 

 sailed in 1847. 



was rebottomed and 



Crew all deserted in California 1849 ; Capt. 



Coflin left tne ship at Talcabuano, sick. 

 Captain Gibbs came home sick; sold 90 



sperm on voyage. 

 Sold some oil on the voyage. 



Took about 900 barrels of sperm, went to 



California, and was sold. 

 Sold 120 sperm. 

 Added 1846 ; built at Baltimore 1839. 



Added 1846 ; built at Newcastle, Me., 1829. 

 Captain Swain left the ship sick. 



Withdrawn for California 1849. 



Lost on a reef near Gallipagos Islands, 



Juno 28, 1847. 

 Sent home 438 sperm, 19,105 pounds bone. 



The Belle Isle sailed again in April and re- 

 turned Oct. 7, 1846, with 90 barrels sperm. 



Added 1845. 



Adftedl845,- withdrawn 1847. 



SjM 1847. 



Totally wrecked at sea Sep'ember 16, 1846. 

 Of the 1 rig's company, twenty-one all 

 told, only the second mats and ifour men 

 survived and were t:iken from the wreck, 

 after the mo.st extreme sntfering, by ship 

 Minerva, of New Bedford. 



