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Martha (US)

An American whaling ship Martha, from Newport, was reported as being at Preservation Bay around March 1836.

Martha

In December 1818, the ship Martha, Captain Aspey, arrived at Sydney from Cork. She was then refitted for the whale fishery and set sail from Sydney under the same captain on 01 March 1819. 

By 21 December, when she arrived at the Bay of Islands in New Zealand, she was already nearly full with sperm oil from London, but nevertheless after only a few days at anchor, Captain Apsey headed her back to the fishery. Three weeks later, they were back for an extended stay and while at the Bay of Islands, they witnessed the arrival of HMS Dromedary. 

On 29 May 1820, Martha arrived in Sydney in distress, where she was surveyed, condemned, and broken up.
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