Whaleship Mount Vernon (1832)

Date: 1832 [unknown]
Location: Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States

Contents 1 Description 1.1 Summary of Whaling Voyages 1.2 Painting of Mount Vernon 2 References

Description

Ship-rigged, 384 (tons), 1832, Mattapoisett, Massachusetts.

Owners: William Folger; John H. Shaw.

The ship Mount Vernon made four whaling voyages from Nantucket between 1832 and 1848, returning over 11,000 barrels of sperm oil. She lost whaleboats and spars during a gale three days out from Nantucket in 1844, returned to Nantucket to be refitted, and sailed again to complete her last voyage as a Nantucket whaling ship. The Mount Vernon was sold to Mattapoisett in 1848.

Summary of Whaling Voyages

Voyage	Depart	Port	Master	Destination	Note
1832-35	1832	Nantucket, MA	Edwin Coffin, Sr.	Pacific	3071 bbl oil
1835-39	1835	Nantucket, MA	Lewis B. Imbert; Bunker	Pacific	2456 bbl
1839-44	1839	Nantucket, MA	Lewis B. Imbert	Pacific	2877 bbl
1844-48	1844	Nantucket, MA	Henry Coleman	Pacific	2617 bbl

Painting of Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon

Port-side view of full-rigged whaleship, Mount Vernon of Nantucket, by William Henry Coffin (abt. 1835), flying American flag from gaff; with vertical-striped red, white, blue house flag flying at main mast. Pod of whales and whale boat visible left; 5 other whaleships visible in distance.

References

• “The Whaling History”, database, New Bedford Whaling Museum, entry for vessel Mount Vernon, WRI AS1986, https://whalinghistory.org/wri/AS1986 (accessed 1 Jun 2023).