Ships visiting the Marshall Islands (until 1885)
Ailuk Atoll

edited by Dirk H.R. Spennemann



European vessels visiting Ailuk Atoll until the beginning of the German Protectorate over the Marshall Islands in October 1885.

Abbreviations/Comments: Vessel type note that the type labour ship includes blackbirders; Nationality (Flag): AUS - Austria; CHI - Chinese; FRA - French; GB - Great Britain; GBA - Great Britain, Australia; GBN - Great Britain, New Zealand; GER - Imperial Germany; HAW - Hawaiian; HOL - Holland; JAP - Japanese; MIS - Marshall Islands (locally owned); RUS - Imperial Russia; SIN - Singapore; SPA Spanish; SWE - Sweden; TAH - Tahiti; USA - United Sates of America.

 

Atoll

Year

Date

Vessel

Captain

Type

Nationality

Ailuk

1565

January 10

San Pedro

Miguel Lopez de Legazpi

 

SPA

Ailuk

1565

January 10

vessel

Miguel Lopez de Legazpi

 

SPA

Ailuk

1565

January 10

vessel

Miguel Lopez de Legazpi

 

SPA

Ailuk

1788

June 30

Charlotte

Thomas Gilbert

transport

GB

Ailuk

1788

June 30

Scarborough

William Marshall

transport

GB

Ailuk

1817

May 1

Nadesha

Otto von Kotzebue

expedition

RUS

Ailuk

1817

May 1

Rurick

Otto von Kotzebue

expedition

RUS

Ailuk

1871

August 23

Coryphaeus

Roe

merchant ship

GB

Ailuk

1872

 

Restless

Bowman

merchant ship

GBA

Ailuk

1872

April 7

HMS Barrosa

Lewis J.Moore

warship

GB

Ailuk

1883

 

Morning Star III

George Graland

mission ship

USA



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