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Saturday, 22 May 2021

American whaler Magnet returned home at Warren, USA according to the newspaper The Inquirer and Mirror dated Saturday 28 February 1835

An item dated Warren 20th mentioned the arrival of the whaler Magnet master Brown returning from the Pacific Ocean leaving Talcahuano on 22 October 1834 with 1.700 barrels sperm oil for Joseph Smith and others.(1)

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1. Ship Documents of Rhode Island. Bristol Works Project Administration, 1941. Originally of Bristol, 1829 became Warren hailing port, registered on 2 September 1831, master Thomas Brown, Warren, owners William Carr, William Carr Jr., Joseph Smits Jr., John Stockford and Joseph Gardner, merchants of Warren and William H.D. Wolf of Warren. Built at Kingston, Massachusetts in 1816, 355 43/95 tons, dimensions 103.2 x 27.11 1/2 x 13.11 3/4 feet, 2 decks, 3 masts, woman figurehead. 

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