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Sunday, 15 December 2019

American whaler Reaper departed to sea in 1819

Of Nantucket, master Jedediah Fitch, departed on 30 November towards the Pacific Ocean and returned with 1.250 barrel sperm and 300 whale. Fitch died underway.

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