Tasmanian whaler Flying Childers spoken according to the newspaper The Polynesian dated 31 August 1850

 The New Pictorial and Illustrated Family Magazine established for the diffusion of useful knowledge, vol. III. Robert Sears editor, New York 1846

An item referred to the Romulus which heard during her voyage in the Arctic and Japan Sea on 25 April of the Tasmanian whaler Flying Childers of Hobart town 1 whale this season.