American whaler Essex departed to sea in 1917

Of Nantucket, master Daniel Russell, departed on 11 June 1817 to the Pacific Ocean and returned on 4 April 1818 with 1.284 barrels sperm and 154 barrels whale.

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