A scrimshaw depiction of the Bark Platina, carved on a baleen panel, identifed in the upper left corner and dated 1846, and with the city of Mattapoisett engraved in the upper right, the ship flying a twenty-four star flag. With geometric pattern border; ht. 5.75, lg. 10.5 in. The only documented killing of a white whale was off the Platina, near the coast of Africa in 1902.