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When did Herman Melville sail on the whaling ship Acushnet?
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Herman Melville
American writer Herman Melville.
Herman Melville sailed on the whaling ship Acushnet in January 1841, departing from New Bedford, Massachusetts, for a voyage to the South Seas.1