Of Wareham. Captain Benjamin F. Gibbs. Departed on 17 November 1847. Returned on 17 March 1850, with 200 barrels sperm oil, 2,800 barrels whale oil, 34,000 pound of whale bone. Lost on the voyage back home 100 barrels whale oil in a gale.
Source
D.Hamilton Hurd. History of the Plymouth County, Massachusetts with biographical sketsches of many of its pioneers and prominent men. Philadelphia, 1884.
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