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Sunday, 2 March 2014

American whaler Thomas Dickason lying in November at Honolulu, Hawaii according to the Whalemen’s Shipping List dated Tuesday 18 December 1866

An item referred to a letter written by captain Jernegan on board of the ship Thomas Dickason New Bedford reporting her lying at Honolulu on 1 November returned from the Arctic with a catch of 9 whales described as large although poor. The results were 880 barrels oil and 15.000 lbs bone, the first transferred to the bark Arctic and the bone to the Ceylon with as destination New Bedford. The whaler was now prepared for first a short period hunt for sperm whales and than again an Arctic season.