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Thursday, 4 July 2024

American whaler Ohio visited Oahu, Hawaii in 1835

Arrival at Oahu, Hawaii on 18 November. Tonnage 383 tons. Master Coffin. Where owned Nantucket. Time 27 months. Cargo 2,450 tons. Departed on 24 December. Departed Nantucket master Charles W. Coffin on 15 August 1833 for the Pacific Ocean, returned on 8 January 1837 with 2,615 barrels sperm oil 176 whale.

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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