Of Nantucket, master John Maxcy, departed to the Pacific Ocean on 20 December, after obtaining a full cargo of sperm it sprung a leak off Cape Horn and 800 barrels oil were thrown overboard, put into Rio, condemned and what was left of her cargo shipped home with the big Fox.
Source
Catalogue of Nantucket Whalers and their voyages from 1815 to 1870. Hussey&Robinson, Nantucket, 1876.
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