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Saturday, 4 December 2021

American whaler Richmond visited Simons’s Bay, South Africa according to the The Cape of Good Hope Gazette dated Friday 11 March 1836

An item reported the arrival on 9 March in the Simon’s Bay, South Africa of the American whaler Richmond master J. Tucker which left Madagascar on 1 February on a whaling cruise. Loaded with oil. Her crew was harassed by sickness and already 10 men were buried.

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