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Monday 21 January 2019

American whaler Oak departed to sea 1869

Of Nantucket, master William B. Thompson, departed on 16 November 1869 to the Pacific. Sold at Panama, was the last Nantucket whaler.(1)

Note
1. Whalemen’s Shipping List dated 14 June 1870. Shipping agent Freeman E. Adams, bark 152 tons, on 6 February 1870 at Port Stanley

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