Ships visiting the Marshall Islands (until 1885)
Kili Island

edited by Dirk H.R. Spennemann



European vessels visiting Kili Island 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

Kili

1797

September 19

Britannia

Thomas Dennet

merchant ship

GB

Kili

1841

December 18

USS Flying Fish

Knox

warship

USA

Kili

1847

May 1

Golconda II

Studley

whaler

USA

Kili

1859

December 23

Superior

     

Kili

1859

December 23

Superior

Richard D.Wood

whaler

USA

Kili

1864

October 11

Nightingale

Andrew Brown

merchant ship

GB

Kili

1870

February 14

Malolo

     

Kili

1876

July 14

Vision

George Loverock

merchant ship

GBN

Kili

1884

January 16

Lucretia

     


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