Homeport New London, Connecticut, USA. Rigging schooner. Tonnage 125 tons. Antarctic sealing ground South Seas.Date of departure 18 July 1842. Date of return 3 June 1844. Number of fur seal skins 300. Barrels of sea-elephant oil -. Also 12,000 hair seal-skins, 400 other skins and whale oil.
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.
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