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Saturday, 27 September 2025

American whaling brig Inga 1843-1844

Of Wareham. Departed on 26 June 1843. Returned on 24 November 1844, with 830 barrels sperm oil. Measured 160 tons. Captain Elisha G. Cudworth. Sold to New Bedford in 1848, departing from there on 9 May 1848 for the Indian Ocean. Captain Barnes. In December 1852 captured by the natives of Pleasant Island killing her captain and most of the crew members.

Source

D.Hamilton Hurd. History of the Plymouth County, Massachusetts with biographical sketsches of many of its pioneers and prominent men. Philadelphia, 1884. 

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