Cunard let the years go by, but he still was of the view that he could successfully prosecute the whale fishery. In 1837, the Halifax Whaling Co. was incorporated by statute. While other mercantile firms participated, the principal shareholders were the Cunard brothers. The project was supported by the government which offered a bounty on certain terms. Though I am not aware of the exact times, the first whaling-vessel under sail sent out by the new company was the Pacific. She went into the southern Pacific and came back home with a full cargo. Since the Pacific was the first to return, of a number of whaling ships that the government had encouraged, she received a bounty. Even before the company's ship, the Pacific, came back to Halifax, Cunard, using his own resources, sent out another Whaler, the Susan and Sarah. I have nothing that would enlighten us as to what happened to the Susan and Sarah. We might suppose that her trip was marginally successful, as two more whaling-vessels were send out: the Rose and the Samuel Cunard.22 The Rose, in time, came back with a full cargo and sent out again. As for the Samuel Cunard: the crew deserted her some where in New Zealand "and her captain, in a fit of drunken despondency, had jumped overboard and drowned."