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Friday 28 June 2024

American whaler Susan visited Oahu, Hawaii in 1835

Arrival at Oahu, Hawaii on 2 November. Type ship. Tonnage 348 tons. Master Swain. Where owned Nantucket. Time 22 months. Cargo 800 tons. Departed on 7 December. Departed Nantucket on 17 November 1833 for the Pacific Ocean, master Frederick Swain and returned on 14 May 1837 with 1,406 barrels sperm oil.

Sources

The Sailor’s Magazine and Naval Journal. Published by the American Seamen’s Friend Society. Vol. VIII ending August 1835, p. 335 etc.

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

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