Of Nantucket, master Thomas Worth, departed to the Pacific Ocean on 20 December, returned on 14 November1824, 372 barrels sperm oil. “Four of the crew of this ship , headed by Samuel Comstock, (a boatsteerer,) mutinied on the night of January 25th , 1823, and murdered Capt. Worth, Mr. Beetle, Mr. Lumbert and Mr. Fisher, and carried the ship to one of the Mulgrave Islands with the intention of destroying her; and after taking out most of the provisions, sails, & c., they quarrelled and shot Samuel Comstock, having previously hanged one of the mutineers. Samuel Comstock’s brother George, a boy 17 years old, assisted by Gilbert Smith, (one of the boatsteerers) and five of the crew, escaped with the ship, and arrived safe at Valparaiso. Commodore Hull, in command of the U. S. ships in the Pacific, sent the schooner Dolphin, Lieut. Percival, to the Mulgrave Islands after the survivors, viz.: Silas Payne and John Oliver, mutineers, Thomas Liliston, Cyrus M. Hussey , Roland Coffin, Columbus Worth, William Lay, Roland Jones, and a native of the Sandwich Islands. Lieut. Percival found Cyrus M. Hussey and William Lay, the only survivors, the others having been killed by the natives. Hussey and Lay arrived safe home and published a narrative of the mutiny. T'he ship was eventually broken up at Montevideo in April, 1830.”
Source
Catalogue of Nantucket Whalers and their voyages from 1815 to 1870. Hussey&Robinson, Nantucket, 1876.
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