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Tuesday, 18 August 2026

American sailing sealing ship Betsey in 1834

Antarctic sealing ground South Atlantic. Rigging schooner. Captain Elliot, arrived at New London on 7 May 1834 with 1,390 fur-seal skins, 500 pup seal-skins, 74 bullock hides and some whale oil from the South Atlantic.

Source

Goode, George Brown. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Volume II, Washington, 1887. (1978).

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