Fortune (1799 ship)

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History
United Kingdom
NameFortune
LaunchedHolland
Acquired1799 by purchase of a prize
FateLost 1803
General characteristics
Tons burthen296,[1] or 337,[2] or 397[3] (bm)

Fortune was a Dutch vessel, taken in prize c.1799. She became a merchantman that sailed between Liverpool and Denmark–Norway, or Bremen. She made one voyage as a whaler to Greenland, and was lost in 1803.

Career[]

Fortune first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1799.[1]

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1796 W.Garner J.Garbers Liverpool–Bremen LR
1801 W.Garner
Snowdon
J.Garbers
Humble
Liverpool–Bremen
Liverpool–Elsinore
LR; damages repaired 1801
1802 R.Snowdon S.Humble
S.Holland
Liverpool–Elsinore LR; damages repaired 1801
1803 R.Snowdon
William Jameson
S.Holland Liverpool–Narva LR; damages repaired 1801
1804 W.Jameson S.Holland Liverpool–Greenland LR; damages repaired 1801

Fortune caught one whale in the Greenland whale fishery in 1803.

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1804 Lightly Humble Liverpool–Davis Strait RS; new deck and damages repaired 1802

Fate[]

Fortune, Leightly, of Liverpool, was reported in November 1803 to have been lost near Narva.[4] Her entry in the 1804 issue of the Register of Shipping carried the annotation "Lost".[5]

Citations[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b ''LR (1799), Seq.No.F479.
  2. ^ LR (1801), Seq.No.F330.
  3. ^ LR (1802), Seq.No.F411.
  4. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (4405). 25 November 1803. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  5. ^ RS (1804), Seq.NO.F413.
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