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Thursday, 31 January 2019

American whaler John Jay departed to sea in 1818

Of Nantucket, master William H. Coffin, departed on 6 February 1818 towards the Pacific Ocean, stranded on the shore at Bonavista but refloated returning leaking on 6 May 1818.

Source
Catalogue of Nantucket Whalers and their voyages from 1815 to 1870. Hussey&Robinson, Nantucket, 1876.