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Thursday, 27 December 2018

American whaler Alert departed to sea 1815

Brig. Of Nantucket, master Seth Folger, departed on 16 November 1815 towards Cape of Good Hope, South Africa and returned on 24 December 1816 with 130 barrels sperm and 470 barrels whale. Folger died underway.

Source
Catalogue of Nantucket Whalers and their voyages from 1815 to 1870. Hussey&Robinson, Nantucket, 1876.