| Date |
Nationality |
Ship Type |
Ship Name |
Master |
Home Port |
Tonnage |
Crew |
Months Out |
Sperm Oil Onboard |
Whale Oil Onboard |
Bone Onboard |
Ship Notes |
Sperm Oil Season |
Whale Oil Season |
Bone Season |
Amt Sails For |
Whaling Ground |
Where Bound |
|
| January 9, 1850 |
French |
Ship |
Cosmopolite |
T. G. Caubrien |
Havre |
498 |
38 |
5 |
|
|
|
Ship Clean |
|
|
|
Uncertain |
|
Japan Sea |
|
| January 19, 1850 |
Chilean |
Brig |
Elisabeth |
Anguetil |
Valparaiso |
|
|
|
|
|
|
25 days from San Francisco |
|
|
|
|
|
San Francisco |
|
| January 20, 1850 |
American |
Bark |
Shepherdess |
W. Benjamin |
Mystic |
273 |
26 |
17 |
|
1400 |
15000 |
|
|
1150 |
15000 |
$16,000 |
Ohotsk |
Northwest |
|
| January 22, 1850 |
American |
Ship |
Brookline |
Samuel Jeffrey |
New London |
360 |
33 |
17 |
|
1400 |
|
Sent Home |
|
1400 |
|
$30,000 |
Ohotsk |
Northwest |
|
| February 9, 1850 |
American |
Ship |
Tascacoral |
I. C. Leik |
Cold Springs |
380 |
26 |
15 |
|
800 |
|
|
|
|
|
$15,000 |
Ohotsk |
Arctic Ocean |
|
| February 12, 1850 |
American |
Schooner |
Odd Fellow |
I. Chapman |
New London |
92 |
6 |
|
|
|
|
17 days from San Francisco |
|
|
|
|
|
San Francisco |
|
| February 13, 1850 |
American |
Schooner |
Mary |
W. H. Tibbey |
San Francisco |
56 |
8 |
|
|
|
|
Last from Oahu |
|
|
|
|
|
San Francisco |
|
| February 13, 1850 |
American |
Schooner |
John Allyne |
I. R. Corwin |
San Francisco |
180 |
8 |
|
|
|
|
16 days from San Francisco |
|
|
|
|
|
San Francisco |
|
| February 14, 1850 |
American |
Schooner |
Wanderer |
R. Boyd |
London |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 of Royal Catch Squadron; Last from Hawaii, bound to Oahu |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| February 18, 1850 |
American |
Bark |
Don Quixote |
Dudoit |
Honolulu |
|
|
|
|
|
|
16 days from San Francisco; bound to Oahu |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|