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Thursday, 4 July 2024

American whaler Independence visited Oahu, Hawaii in 1835

Arrival at Oahu, Hawaii on 18 November. Tonnage 311 tons. Master Brayton. Where owned Nantucket. Time 24 months. Cargo 1,750 barrels oil. Departed on 21 December. Departed on 17 November 1833 Nantucket master Isaac Brayton bound for the Pacific Ocean, lost on Starbuck’s Island laoded with 1,800 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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