184 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Table showing returns of whaling-vessels 



Name of vessel. 



17S8. 



The sloop Rainbow, Capt. Joshua 

 Delano, made a whaling-voyage from 

 Dartmouth, sailing in company with 

 vessels commanded by Elnathan and 

 Nathaniel Delano. On the voyage 

 the following captains were spoken 

 — the oil reported at the date of 

 hailing being given in brackets : 



Stott [from the West Indies, 100 



barrels], Cornelius Butler, Benjamin 

 Dillingham, George Allen, Amos 

 Kelley, Robert Neader [from the 

 "West Indies, 100 barrels], Rufus 



Fish [40], Squires [30], Seth Fol- 



ger [from Brazil, 500], Walter Brock 

 [from Brazil, 500], Benjamin Hillman 

 [40], Reuhen Clark, Joseph Russell, 

 [Nantucket], James Coffin, John 

 Bassett [from Brazil, 600], Robert 

 Hathaway [20], Abishai Luce, Joseph 

 Russell (Dartmouth]. The larger 

 number of these are unquestionably 

 from Nantucket; others from the 

 vicinity of Dartmouth, Cape Cod, &c. 

 The Rainbow arrived July 25, and 

 sailed again for a Gulf-Stream voy- 

 age August 5. On the second cruise 

 she spoke Thomas Allen [4], Benja- 

 min Hillman [4], George Allen [80J, 

 Edy Coffin, Benjamin Dillingham, 

 Robert Hathaway [15], Rufus Fish, 

 Jonathan Cushman, Daniel Ben- 

 nett [70J, Prince Shearman, Prince 

 Hatch, and Ebenezer Allen. Shear- 

 rived the second time September 17. 



Polly. 

 Sea Horse . 



17S9. 



Gloucester, Mass. 



Lucy . 

 Sarah 



Sag Harbor, N. Y. 



Boston, Mass. 

 New Bedford, Mass. 



Rhode Island. 



Class. 



Hudson, 2V. Y. 



The sloop Rainbow, of Dartmouth, 

 Joshua Delano commander, sailed 

 from that port June '.i, 1789, arriv- 

 ing August 7, of the same year. 

 On her voyage she spoke Benjamin 

 Hillman [70], Obed CushmVn [1 

 •whale], Jesse Luce, Tristram Cof- 

 fin, Cornelius Butler [60J, Thomas 

 Bates, John Carver, Obed Nye, Ru- 

 fus Fish, Seth Tobey, Robert Hath- 

 away, Samuel Shockley, Thomas 

 Cook, Thomas Snow, [in a brig, 

 200], Nathaniel Delano, Shubael 

 Swain, Amos Kelley, Samuel Cros- 

 by, and Salvanus Luce. 



Ship... 

 Brig 



Brig.. 

 Ship . . 

 Brig . . 



Schooner 

 ...do .... 



Brig 



Captain. 



J.Coffin 



Elkanah Mayo 



Solomon Lewis . , 

 Caleb Lombard 



Managing owner or 

 agent. 



Benjamin Huntting. 



Sylvanus Hussey . 

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