Harriet (1829 ship)
Harriet was a former vessel of the British Royal Navy, probably the Cruizer-class brig-sloop HMS Harrier. The Navy sold her in 1829 and her new owners deployed her as a whaler in the British Southern Whale Fishery. The last of her three whaling voyages ended in 1840. She had disappeared from Lloyd's Register (LR) before then.
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| Name: | Harriet |
| Builder: | Ipswich |
| Launched: | 1813 |
| Acquired: | 1829 by purchase |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen: | 396,[1] or 405,[2] (bm) |
| Sail plan: | Brig |
Origins
LR gave Harriet's origin as "Kgs Yd",[2] signalling that she had been built for the Navy. The Register of Shipping (RS) identified where she was built as Ipswich. Both registers gave her launch year as 1813. There were three vessels built for the Navy in Ipswich in 1813 that were sold in 1828 or 1829 and of a burthen similar to Harriet's. All three were Cruizer-class brig sloops of about 386 tons (bm): Fly, Harlequin, and Harrier. Fly was sold in Bombay in 1828, and Harlequin was sold in Jamaica in September 1829.[3] Their purchasers could have sailed them to Britain for resale, with the result that although Harriet is most probably the former Harrier, the link cannot be verified definitively absent original research.
Whaler
Harriet underwent a large repair in 1829.[2][1] The registers gave the name of her master as Young or W.Young, that of her owner as Clay & Co., and her trade as London–South Seas.
1st whaling voyage (1829–1831): Captain W. Young sailed from London on 19 September 1829, bound for the seas off Japan.[4] Harriet was reported to have visited Guam and to have fished off Guam. She returned to England on 10 August 1831 with some 2200 barrels of whale oil.[4]
2nd whaling voyage (1831–183_): Captain Thomas Tapsell sailed Harriet from Great Britain on 15 November 1831. It is not clear when she returned.[4] She underwent small repairs in 1836.[5]
3rd whaling voyage (1836–1840): Harriet, Apsey (or Absey), master, sailed from Great Britain on 16 September 1816, bound for the waters off New Zealand. She was reported at the Bay of Islands and the Hawaiian islands. She returned to Great Britain on 25 September 1840 with 300 casks (150 tons) of oil.[4]
Harriet was last listed in 1838 with Christie, master, G.H.Pace, owner, and trade London–South Seas.[5]
Citations and references
Citations
References
- Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 1-86176-246-1.