Harriet (ship)

Several vessels have been named Harriet, or Harriot:

• Harriet (1798 ship), of 600 (or 422, or 452) tons burthen and pierced for 24 guns, was built at Pictou shipyard, Nova Scotia, by Captain Lowden.[1] She was launched on 25 October and was the first large ship built in Nova Scotia. She was sold in London.[1]
• Harriet (1802 EIC ship) was a two-decker East Indiaman. She made five complete voyages for the British East India Company (EIC), as an "extra ship" i.e., under charter, and accidentally burnt as she was preparing to return to England from her sixth voyage.
• Harriet (1810 ship) was launched at New York in 1810. She was captured and sold as a prize in 1813 to British owners. She then traded widely, eventually sailing primarily to New South Wales. She was wrecked at Fanning's Island in late 1831 or early 1832 while on a whaling voyage.
• Harriet (1813 ship) was launched in Georgia in 1809 and captured c.1812. She made four voyages as a whaler in the British Southern Whale Fishery and was last listed in 1833.
• Harriet (1829 ship) 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.
• Harriet (1836 ship) was launched at Yarmouth. She burnt at Calcutta on 19 April 1842.
• Harriet (fishing smack) is an English fishing smack built in Fleetwood in 1893 which is now preserved at Fleetwood Museum.

Citations and references

Citations

1. Wallace (1929), p. 125.

References

• Wallace, Frederick William (1929). Record of Canadian shipping: a list of square-rigged vessels, mainly 500 tons and over, built in the eastern provinces of British North America from the year 1786 to 1920.