American whaler Improvement departed to sea in 1823

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Of Nantucket, master Reuben Kelley, departed to the Brazil Banks on 8 August, returned on 17 March 1825, 1,100 barrels sperm oil. Lost on Eel Point.

Source

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