"Am ship Globe, Daggett, New Bedford, 13 months": the Port of Lahaina, October 1846
About it
The whalers come in to Lahaina from the northern grounds in the autumn of 1846, day by day, each with her captain, her home port, her months out and her oil: from Sag Harbor, New Bedford, Newport, New London, Nantucket, Hamburg and Havre. At the foot, on the 25th: “Am ship Globe, Daggett, New Bedford, 13 months, 50 sperm, 1300 whale, 1300 whale this season,” her first season north, with Richard Holbrook in her crew.
- Related to
- Richard Blackmer Holbrook
- Credit
- The Polynesian (Honolulu), 31 Oct 1846, p. 3. Library of Congress, Chronicling America; cropped
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