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Ridley comments: "There are several instances of the same flag used by two or
more entities. An example is the flag flown by the ships "Omega", "Obed Mitchell", and "Sarah Parker". No connection among these vessels has been found.
Likewise, the flag flown by ships "Columbus", "Franklin II", and "Planter"; the
flag flown by ships "Massachusetts" and "Mount Vernon"; and the flag flown by
ships "Charles Carroll" and "Lexington", each with no discernible connections
among the ships, even though, in each case, there was a period when the vessels
in each group were sailing contemporaneously."
"There was no registration or
other means of establishing propriety in the design of a flag. The wording of
patent and copyright legislation excluded trademarks, under which private signal
flags fall. Federal protection of trademarks was first legislated in 1946 under
the Lanham Act. Prior to this, trademarks fell under state common law emanating
from the tort of unfair competition."
Ivan Sache, 3 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-al.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 3 February 2019
"Alert" (brig, 1807-1822)
Blue flag with a white saltire throughout.
Ivan Sache, 3 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-ac.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 3 February 2019
"Alexander Coffin" (ship, 1832-1844)
Blue swallow-tailed pennant with a
white disc in the center.
Ivan Sache, 3 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-ap.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 3 February 2019
"Alpha" (ship, 1834-1860)
White flag with a red disc in the center.
Ivan Sache, 3 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-ar.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 3 February 2019
Red flag with a blue cross throughout charged with a white "A".
Ivan Sache, 3 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-a1.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 3 February 2019
Red flag with a blue cross throughout charged with a blue "A" on a white .
Ivan Sache, 3 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-a2.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 3 February 2019
Red flag with a blue cross throughout charged with a blue "A".
Ivan Sache, 3 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-a3.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 3 February 2019
After 1841
A blue pennant above a white pennant
Ivan Sache, 3 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-an.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 3 February 2019
"Ann" (ship, 1827-1841)
Blue flag with "ANN" in white.
Ivan Sache, 3 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-at.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 4 February 2019
"Atlantic" (ship, 1819-1862)
Vertically divided red-white-red with a black
"A" in the center.
Ivan Sache, 4 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-ba.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 4 February 2019
"Barclay" (ship, 1819-1856, condemned at Tahiti)
Captain Ruben Barney
of the whaler "Barclay" of Nantucket, who recruited ship at Nukahiva during
Melville's stay on the island, had entered a Marquesan bay nearly six years
before and, landing with a boat's crew, had been attacked by the islanders. He
was made a prisoner but his crew safely regained the "Barclay" by swimming. "The
mate slipped the chain", -- so reported a New England newspaper -- "and was
proceeding to sea, but on learning that the natives were preparing to burn Capt.
B. succeeded in effecting his ransom at a coast of about $500 in goods etc."
Although this whaling master might have been fearfully duped by a shrewd native
scheme to get free American goods, he evidently felt that he had been rescued
from a more horrid fate.
[Wilson Heflin. Herman Melville's whaling years.
Vanderbilt University Press, 2004]
Pennant horizontally divided white-red with blue end.
Ivan Sache, 4 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-b1.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 4 February 2019
Second flag, undated, similar but swallow-tailed.
Ivan Sache, 4 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-ca.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 4 February 2019
"Catherine" (ship, 1831-1843)
Blue flag with a white "C".
Ivan Sache, 4 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-cc.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 4 February 2019
"Charles Carroll" (ship, 1832-1853)
White pennant with a blue border and a
red disc in the center. Also swallow-tailed.
Ivan Sache, 4 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-co.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 4 February 2019
"Colombus" (ship, 1820-1843)
Flag horizontally divided blue-white-blue.
Ivan Sache, 4 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-c1.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 4 February 2019
Flag quartered white and red.
Ivan Sache, 4 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-cn.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 5 February 2019
"Constitution" (ship, 1821-1850)
A red pennant above a blue pennant.
Ivan Sache, 5 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-cr.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 5 February 2019
"Criterion" (ship, 1815-1829, condemned at Halifax)
Flag horizontally
divided blue-red.
Ivan Sache, 5 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-cy.gif)
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-c2.gif)
images by Ivan Sache, 5 February 2019
"Cyrus" (ship, 1821-1845, condemned at Rio de Janeiro)
Flag chequered
white-blue, two versions
Ivan Sache, 5 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-dw.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 5 February 2019
"Daniel Webster" (ship, 1838-1857)
Blue flag with the white letters "D W".
Ivan Sache, 5 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-de.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 5 February 2019
"Delight" (schooner, 1809)
White pennant with a blue border all around.
Ivan Sache, 5 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-di.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 5 February 2019
"Dispatch" (sloop, 1820-1822)
Red flag with a blue disc in the center.
Ivan Sache, 5 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-ea.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 6 February 2019
"Eagle" (ship, 1818-1837, broken up at Nantucket)
Flag vertically divided
blue-white-blue.
Ivan Sache, 6 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-ed.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 6 February 2019
"Edward" (ship, 1805)
Blue flag with a white cross throughout.
Ivan Sache, 6 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-ec.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 6 February 2019
"Edward Cary" (ship, 1841-1859)
Red flag with a white disc in the center
charged with the red letters "EC".
Ivan Sache, 6 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-es.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 6 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-e1.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 6 February 2019
"Elizabeth Starbuck" (ship, 1834-1846, condemned at Monterey, CA)
Blue
flag with the white letters "ES"; also shown as a pennant.
Ivan Sache, 6 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-em.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 7 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-e2.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 7 February 2019
"Empire" (ship, 1843-1852)
White flag with a blue letter "E"; also shown
as a swallow-tailed pennant.
Ivan Sache, 7 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-ex.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 7 February 2019
"Essex" (ship, 1815-1820, sunk by a whale)
Red flag with a blue border all
around and a white letter "E" in the center.
The "Essex" had set sail
from Nantucket in 1819, rounded Cape Horn and entered the Pacific Ocean the
following January. Then on 20 November, about 1,800 miles west of the Galapagos
Islands, the vessel was rammed twice by a enraged sperm whale - some 85ft long,
almost the length of the "Essex" itself. That attack finds fictional form at the
climax of Melville's great novel. The subsequent reality for the crew of the
"Essex" was more harrowing still. The crew abandoned ship, divided up their
meager provisions and set off in the three small whaleboats, hoping to make
landfall in Chile or Peru. But their supplies ran out, and as one crew member
after another died of starvation or thirst, the others resorted to cannibalism
to survive. Eventually there were only four men left on Pollard's boat, and they
decided that one should be killed to provide food. They drew lots, and the
unlucky individual was Pollard's cousin, 19-year-old Owen Coffin, who bravely
accepted his fate and was shot dead. Finally on 23 February 1821, Pollard and
his one fellow survivor were rescued by another whaler and taken to the Chilean
port of Valparaiso, from where they made their way back to Nantucket.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/rupert-cornwell/rupert-cornwell-of-shipwrecks-survival-ndash-and-cannibalism-2213010.html
- The Independent, 13 February 2011.
Ivan Sache, 7 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-ep.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 7 February 2019
"Experiment" (sloop, 1815-1817)
Red flag with a white star in the center.
Ivan Sache, 7 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-fc.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 7 February 2019
"Factor" (ship, 1817-1826, condemned at Rio de Janeiro)
Pennant vertically
divided white-red with a blue disc at hoist.
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-f1.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 7 February 2019
White flag with a blue anchor in each corner, pointing to the respective
corner.
Ivan Sache, 7 February 2019
image by Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
"Experiment" (sloop, 1815-1817)
Red flag with a white star in the center.
Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-fr.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
"Francis" (ship, 1816-1825)
Blue flag with a white canton.
Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-fk.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
"Franklin I" (ship, 1816-1832, lost on coast of Brazil).
Red
swallow-tailed pennant with a white star at hoist.
Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-f2.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
"Franklin II" (ship, 1832-1845)
Flag horizontally divided blue-white-blue.
Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-ga.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
"Ganges" (ship, 1815-1835; rebuilt and enlarged, 1841-1858, condemned at
Talcahuano [Chile]).
Blue flag with a white cross throughout.
Until
1832, the "Ganges" was owned by Gideon Gardner (1759-1832), Representative from
Massachusetts (1809-1811). Gardner Island aka Nikumaroro, the most south-western
island of the Phoenix Group, Kiribati, is thought to have been discovered about
1828, by Captain Joshua Coffin of the ship "Ganges", and to have been named for
Gideon Gardner who was either owner of or agent for the vessel.
http://www.janeresture.com/kiribati_phoenix_group/gardner.htm
Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-gj.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
"General Jackson" (ship, 1815-1823)
Blue flag with a white rectangle in
the center.
Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-gp.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
"George Porter" (ship, 1819-1824)
White flag with a blue triangle at fly.
Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-gi.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
"Gideon" (ship, 1819-1824, condemned at St. Bartholomew's)
Flag
horizontally divided in 11 stripes, in turn red and white.
Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-gd.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
"Golden Farmer" (ship, 1815-1825)
Flag horizontally divided
red-white-red-white-red.
Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
image by Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
"Gideon" (ship, 1819-1824, condemned at St. Bartholomew's)
Flag
horizontally divided in 11 stripes, in turn red and white.
Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-hc.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
"Henry Clay" (ship, 1839-1847, condemned at Rio de Janeiro)
Blue flag with
the white letters "H C".
Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-he.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
"Hero" (ship, 1816-1861, lost in Algoa Bay, Australia)
Blue flag with a
white star in the center and ten smaller stars along the borders (4 + 2 + 4).
Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-hs.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
"Hesper" (ship, 1820-1825)
Blue flag with a white disc in the center
charged with a blue six-pointed star.
Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-hn.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
"Huntress" (schooner, 1819-1820)
White flag with a blue letter "H" in the
center and four blue discs in the corners.
Ivan Sache, 8 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-in.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 9 February 2019
"Independence" (ship, 1817-1835, lost on Starbuck island)
White flag with
a blue letter "I" in the center.
Ivan Sache, 9 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-id.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 9 February 2019
"Indus" (brig, 1816-1817; ship, 1819-1824)
White pennant with a blue
border and a blue star in the center and 16 smaller stars along the borders.
Ivan Sache, 9 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-is.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 9 February 2019
"Industry" (ship, 1815-1820, condemned at San Domingo)
White flag with a
red border at the top and a blue border at the bottom charged in the center with
a blue disc surrounded by four blue stars.
Ivan Sache, 9 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-jl.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 9 February 2019
"James Loper" (ship, 1838-1860)
Blue swallow-tailed pennant charged with
the white letters "J L".
Ivan Sache, 9 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-jp.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 9 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-j1.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 9 February 2019
"Japan" (ship, 1822-1829)
White flag with a red border all around and a
red letter "M" in the center; also shown without border along the hoist.
Ivan Sache, 9 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-ja.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-j2.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
"John Adams I" (ship, 1812-1849)
Flag vertically divided white-blue.
Flag vertically divided blue-horizontally divided red-blue.
Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-j3.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
"John Adams II" (ship, 1819-1831)
White swallow-tailed pennant bordered
red all around and charged with a red rectangle at hoist.
Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-js.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-j4.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
"Joseph Starbuck" (ship, 1838-1842, lost on Nantucket Bar)
White flag with
a blue border all around and the blue letters "J. S." in the center; also shown
without border.
Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-ju.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
"Juno" (schooner, 1816-1819)
White flag with a blue tree (?) in the
center.
Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-la.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
"Lady Adams" (ship, 1815-1823, missing, burned in the Sea of Japan)
White
flag with a red border and a red disk in the center.
Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-li.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
"Lima" (ship, 1815-1842, condemned at Rio outward bound)
Flag horizontally
divided white-red-white.
Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-ly.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
"Lydia II" (ship, 1822-1835, burned at sea January 31)
Red flag with a
white disc in the center charged with a red "L".
Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-mr.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
"Maria" (schooner, 1815)
Blue pennant with a white disc at hoist.
Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-mo.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
"Maro" (ship, 1816-1828, condemned at Rio de Janeiro, December 1828)
Flag
diagonally divided per bend white-blue.
Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-mt.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
"Martha" (ship, 1815-1845)
Flag diagonally divided per bend sinister
white-blue; also shown rotated 180 degrees.
Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-my.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
"Mary" (ship, 1831-1861)
White flag with a blue border all around and the
blue lettering "MARY" in the center.
Ivan Sache, 11 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-ms.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 12 February 2019
"Massachusetts" (ship, 1841-1861)
Flag vertically divided red-white-blue.
Ivan Sache, 12 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-mi.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 12 February 2019
"Minerva" (ship, 1815-1819)
Blue flag with white stars.
Ivan Sache, 12 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-mn.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 12 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-m1.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 12 February 2019
"Montana" (ship, 1829-1849)
Vertically divided white blue charged in the
center with a counter-colored disc.
Blue flag with a white letter "M" in the
center.
Ivan Sache, 12 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-mv.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 12 February 2019
"Massachusetts" (ship, 1841-1861)
Flag vertically divided red-white-blue.
Ivan Sache, 12 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-na.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 14 February 2019
"Nantucket" (ship, 1837-1859, lost in Nashawena)
White flag with a red
border and a blue sperm whale looking at fly.
Ivan Sache, 14 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-n1.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 14 February 2019
White flag with a red border on three sides and a sperm whale looking at hoist.
Ivan Sache, 14 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-np.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 14 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-n2.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 14 February 2019
"Napoleon" (ship, 1838-1854)
White flag with a red stripe at the top and
bottom and the blue letter "N" in the center; also shown with a red border all
around
Ivan Sache, 14 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-ng.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 25 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-n3.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 25 February 2019
"Narraganset" (ship, 1841-1855)
White flag with a red border all around
charged in the center with a red bowman / harpooner (?); also shown with no
border at hoist.
Ivan Sache, 14 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-nv.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 25 February 2019
"Navigator" (ship, 1841-1862)
Vertically divided white-red-white with a
blue streamer.
Ivan Sache, 14 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-nc.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
"New Packet" (sloop, 1815-1816)
Horizontally divided blue-red-blue with a
white letter "B" all over.
Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-no.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
"Norman" (ship, 1845-1865)
White swallow-tailed pennant charged with a
blue "N" at hoist.
Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-nm.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
"North America" (ship, 1816-1828)
White flag with a red disc in the
center.
Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-om.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
"Obed Mitchell" (ship, 1837-1841)
Flag horizontally divided red-white-red.
Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-oh.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
"Ohio" (ship, 1813-1845)
Blue flag with a white letter "O" in the center.
Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
image by Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
Flag horizontally divided red-white-red.
Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-pa.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
"Pacific" (ship, 1818-1837)
Swallow-tailed pennant vertically divided
red-blue.
Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-pr.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
"Paragon" (ship, 1819-1828, sunk near Oahu, HI)
White flag with a blue
border all around and a blue disc in the center.
Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-pe.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
"Peru" (ship, 1818-1831; ship, 1835-1838; bark, 1843-1863)
Flag vertically
divided white-red with a blue disc in the center of the white part.
Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-p1.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
Flag vertically divided white-red with a blue steamer.
Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-pv.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
"Peruvian" (ship, 1818-1857)
Flag vertically divided
white-blue-white-blue.
Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-p2.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
White flag with a red saltire throughout.
Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-ph.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
"Phebe" (ship, 1826-1846, condemned at Pernambuco)
White flag.
Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-pl.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
"Planter" (ship, 1818-1859, burned at Nantucket)
Flag horizontally divided
blue-white-blue.
Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-pb.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
"Ploughboy" (ship, 1821-1843)
Flag vertically divided white-red-blue.
Ivan Sache, 15 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-qu.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 17 February 2019
"New Packet" (sloop, 1815-1816)
Horizontally divided blue-red-blue with a
white letter "B" all over.
Ivan Sache, 17 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-ra.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 17 February 2019
"Rambler" (ship, 1818-1855, condemned at Upola)
Blue flag with a white "R"
at hoist
Ivan Sache, 17 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-ro.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 17 February 2019
"Roxana" (ship, 1819-1824)
White flag with a blue (hoist and bottom) and
red (top and fly) border and a red "R" in the center.
Ivan Sache, 17 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-sa.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 17 February 2019
"Sally" (ship, 1788-1823)
White pennant with the blue letters "GEORGIA".
Ivan Sache, 17 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-sr.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 17 February 2019
"Sarah" (ship, 1827-1846, condemned at Tahiti)
Flag vertically divided
white-red.
Ivan Sache, 17 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-sc.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 18 February 2019
"Scotland" (ship, 1845-1851)
Swallow-tailed pennant vertically divided white-red with a blue letter "S" in the center.
Ivan Sache, 18 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-sl.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 18 February 2019
"Sea Lion" (ship, 1819-1825)
White flag with a red border at top and bottom and a blue disc in the center.
Ivan Sache, 18 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-so.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 18 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-s1.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 18 February 2019
"Sophia" (schooner, 1846-1849)
White swallow-tailed pennant with a red border all around and the blue
letters "SOPHIA"; also used without lettering.
Ivan Sache, 18 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-sm.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 18 February 2019
"South America" (ship, 1816-1825, lost in Long Island Sound)
Pennant vertically divided horizontally divided white-red and blue
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-s2.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 18 February 2019
Flag vertically divided horizontally divided white-red and blue.
Ivan Sache, 18 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-sp.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 21 February 2019
"Spartan" (ship, 1821-1863)
Flag chequered white-red, 3 x 3.
Ivan Sache, 21 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-si.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 21 February 2019
"Statira" (ship, 1826-1843)
Flag vertically divided blue-red with a white
diamond in the center charged with a black horizontal bar.
Ivan Sache, 21 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-sw.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 21 February 2019
"Swallow" (schooner, 1793)
White pennant with the blue letters "SWALLOW".
Ivan Sache, 21 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-ta.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 21 February 2019
"Tarquin" (ship, 1815-1824, abandoned at sea off Barbados)
White flag with
a blue "T" in the center.
Ivan Sache, 21 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-th.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 21 February 2019
"Thomas I" (ship, 1809-1825, condemned in Oahu, HI)
Horizontally divided
red-white-red with a white steamer.
Ivan Sache, 21 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-t2.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 21 February 2019
"Thomas II" (ship, 1819-1825)
Flag horizontally divided blue-red-white.
Ivan Sache, 21 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-tb.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 22 February 2019
"Three Brothers" (ship, 1833-1865)
White swallow-tailed pennant with the
blue letters "TB".
On March 17, 1854, The Nantucket whaleship "Three
Brothers" anchored at Holms' Hole (now Edgartown), Martha's Vineyard, back from
a two-and-a-half year cruise to the North Pacific. This was the fifth of ten
whaling cruises, spanning the years from 1833 to 1875, for the famous ship.
Displacing 384 tons and owned for most of those years by members of the Starbuck
family, the "Three Brothers" held the distinction of returning to Nantucket in
1859 with the largest cargo of oil ever recorded - 6,000 barrels. On this
particular cruise, though, she carried 2,285 barrels and 21,000 pounds of bone,
the product of thirty-five whales - mostly bowheads. This cargo was actually
above average for the time and, with additional oil and bone that had been sent
back from Hawaii, was large enough to bring the owners more than a satisfactory
profit.
The "Three Brothers" had sailed from Martha's Vineyard on October
15,1851.10/16/1851:
"Underway from Tarpaulin Cove with heavy hearts. Ten
weeks later she rounded Cape Horn and entered the Pacific. 1/1/52: Thus New Year
had come and we had two goonies for supper. I wish you a happy year in
Nantucket. Here I am off the Cape in the old hail squalls."
After recruiting
(provisioning) ship in Talcahuano, Chile, and taking two sperm whales off the
east coast of South America, she reached the Hawaiian Islands in April of 1852.
In May the "Three Brothers" sailed through the Kurile Islands and into her
primary destination, the whaling grounds in the Sea of Okhotsk, north of Japan,
off the coast of Siberia. There followed a return to Hawaii, then back to the
Okhotsk in the summer of 1853, Hawaii in the fall, and then around Cape Horn and
north to home.
[Leslie W. Ottinger. 2002. Fine times
on the old "Three Brothers".
Historic Nantucket 51, 17-21
https://www.nha.org/library/hn/HNottinger-threebros.htm
Ivan Sache, 22 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-tu.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 22 February 2019
"Thule" (ship, 1832-1842, lost on Booby Sound)
Swallow-tailed white
pennant with a red border and the blue letters "THULE".
Ivan Sache, 22 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-tw.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 22 February 2019
"Two Brothers" (schooner, 1844-1846)
Swallow-tailed white pennant with a
blue star in the center.
Ivan Sache, 22 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-ty.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 22 February 2019
"Tyleston" (brig, 1839; schooner, 1849; brig, 1845-1854, condemned at
Pernambuco)
Swallow-tailed blue pennant with a white letter "T" in the
center.
Ivan Sache, 22 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-vu.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 22 February 2019
"Vulture" (ship, 1816-1822)
White flag with a blue rectangle in the
center.
Ivan Sache, 22 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-wa.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 22 February 2019
"Washington" (ship, 1819-1849, condemned at Oahu, Hawaii)
Flag vertically
divided white-red-white.
Ivan Sache, 22 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-we.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 22 February 2019
"Weymouth" (ship, 1815-1835)
Blue pennant with red-white-red-white-red horizontal stripes at fly.
Swallow-tailed flag with a blue starry canton and 13 horizontal stripes,
in turn red and white
Ivan Sache, 22 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-ye.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 22 February 2019
"Young Eagle" (ship, 1832-1847, sank at sea)
Pennant vertically divided blue-white-blue
Swallow-tailed pennant vertically divided blue-white-blue.
Ivan Sache, 22 February 2019
![[Nantucket Whaler]](../images/u/us~na-zo.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 22 February 2019
"Zone" (ship, 1827-1847)
Blue swallow-tailed pennant with a white "Z" in the center.
Ivan Sache, 22 February 2019