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Tuesday, 1 September 2026

American sailing sealing ship Penguin in 1835

Antarctic sealing ground South Seas. Rigging schooner. Arrived at Stonington in 1835 with 2,015 fur-seal skins and 350 hair-seal skins and for the schooners Talma, Betsey and Aaron Howard another 890 fur-seals kins and 350 hair-seal skins.

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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