Photograph of Captain George Gilley, the only known native Hawaiian whaling captain. While Captain Gilly was not recorded as aboard any of the whaling ships involved in the 1871 disaster, he was the captain of the Hawaiian-registered whaling Brig William H. Allen, which was similarly lost, crushed in the ice, nearby off Barrow, in 1878.
Captain George Gilley
Image from Lebo, S., 2006. Native Hawaiian Seamen's Accounts of the 1876 Arctic Whaling Disaster and the 1877 Massacre of Alaskan Natives from Cape Prince of Wales. Download larger version (jpg, 177 KB).

Photograph of Captain George Gilley, the only known native Hawaiian whaling captain. While Captain Gilly was not recorded as aboard any of the whaling ships involved in the 1871 disaster, he was the captain of the Hawaiian-registered whaling Brig William H. Allen, which was similarly lost, crushed in the ice, nearby off Barrow, in 1878.

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