Globe (whaleship)

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Career
Name: Globe, of Nantucket
Owner: C. Mitchell, & Co.
Launched: 1815 [1]
Out of service: 1828
General characteristics
Class and type: Whaleship

The whaleship Globe, of Nantucket, Massachusetts, was active between 1815 and 1828.

The Globe Mutiny

On Dec. 22, 1822, Globe, with a compliment of 21 men, set sail on a whaling expedition to the Pacific. According to testimony, "Six men ran away in the Sandwich Islands, and one was discharged." On Jan. 26, 1824, a mutiny occurred.[2]

In February 1824, Globe was brought to Mili Atoll by her mutinous crew. The leader of the mutiny, Samuel B. Comstock, was shot for giving away items to the natives. Six mutineers escaped to Valparaiso, Chile with the ship, where they were brought into custody. The Globe, under Captain King, was fitted out and returned to Nantucket, arriving Nov. 21, 1824.

Out of ten castaways on Mili Atoll, only Cyrus M. Hussey and William Lay survived. They were rescued two years later by U.S. Schooner Dolphin, commanded by Lieut. Com. John Percival.[2]

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Notes

  1. Fairburn, William Armstrong; Ritchie, Ethel M (1945-1955). Merchant Sail. Center Lovell, Maine: : Fairburn Marine Educational Foundation, Inc.. pp. 512, 993. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Hussey, Cyrus M; Lay, William. "A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824, And the journal of a residence of two years on the Mulgrave Islands; with observations on the manners and customs of the inhabitants". New-London: Wm.-Lay and C.M. Hussey. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28955. Retrieved 2010-02-19. 

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