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Saturday, 10 January 2015

American whaler India on 20 June of St. Catherines according to the Whalemen’s Shipping List dated Tuesday 9 August 1859

A letter written by captain Flanders on board of the India of New Bedford reported that she was lying on 20th June off St. Catherines ready to depart back to sea.(1)

Note
1. Tonnage 866 tons. Shipping agent B. Franklin Rowland, departed on 25 August 1858 towards the Indian Ocean. Master Richard Flanders. Owners 24 August 1858 Benjamin F. Howland 4/16, Wilmot Luce 2/16, Charles Taber, Abraham Taber and Asa C. Pierce 1/16, Shipley W. Bumpus 1/16, Benjamin Cummings 2/16, New Bedford, William Cummings 2/16 Dartmouth and Richard Flanders 4/16, Chilmark.