Whaleship Reaper (1819)

Date: 1819 to 1836
Location: Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States

Contents 1 Description 1.1 Summary of Whaling Voyages 1.2 Painting of Whaleship Reaper 2 References

Description

Whaling ship..

Ship-rigged, 338 (tons), built 1819.

Owners: P. Gardner & Sons, P. Mitchell & Sons, Jared Coffin, Philip H. Folger.

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Summary of Whaling Voyages

Voyage	Depart	Port	Master	Destination	Note
1819-20	30 Nov 1819	Nantucket, MA	J. Fitch, Ramsdell	Pacific	Capt. Fitch died; 1550 bbl oil
1820-22	1820	Nantucket, MA	Alexander Ramsdell	—	—
1823-26	2 Oct 1823	Nantucket, MA	Alexander Ramsdell	Pacific	1826 bbl
1826-29	8 Nov 1826	Nantucket, MA	Benjamin F. Coffin	Pacific	1985 bbl
1829-32	23 Oct 1829	Nantucket, MA	Benjamin F. Coffin, Wm. F. Brown	Pacific	Capt. Coffin died; 1808 bbl
1832-35	1832	Nantucket, MA	Tristram P. Swain	Pacific	1998 bbl
1835-36?	12 Oct 1835	Nantucket, MA	Timothy R. Coffin	Pacific	Ship lost

Note : Lost in gale near New Zealand

Painting of Whaleship Reaper

Whaleship Reaper.

Painting of ship Reaper by Roy Cross (British, b. 1924). "Whaler Reaper Anchoring in Nantucket Harbor," 1994. Oil on canvas. Sold at auction, 2012.

References

• “The Whaling History”, database, New Bedford Whaling Museum, entry for vessel Reaper, WRI AS2265, https://whalinghistory.org/wri/AS2265 (accessed 10 Sep 2023).
• Alexander Starbuck, History of the American whale fishery from its earliest inception to the year 1876 (Waltham, Mass.: The author, 1878), 228, 248, 258, 270, 292, 318, https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica00star/page/318/mode/2up?view=theater (accessed 10 Sep 2023).