146 KEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



New Bedford in June, 1820, lor the Pacific Ocean, returning on the 

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

 amount procured by 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 C. Bunker, sailed in 1828 

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

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



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

 ber, 1830, after an absence of only fourteen months and fourteeu 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 mouths 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 on a voyage of forty-one months, 

 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, after a voyage of 26 months, the entire cargo being worth $66,478. 

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

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

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



In 1843 the Silas Bichards, 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 



