Jane (1813 Hull ship)
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Name | Jane |
Builder | Hull |
Launched | 1813 |
Fate | Wrecked 1866 |
General characteristics | |
Tons burthen | 357, or 359[2] (bm) |
Length | 106 ft 7 in (32.5 m)[1] |
Beam | 28 ft 2 in (8.6 m)[1] |
Armament |
Jane was launched at Kingston upon Hull in 1813 as a West Indiaman. Between 1818 and 1836 she was a whaler in the northern whale fishery. She then became a merchantman and was wrecked in 1866.
West Indiaman[]
Jane entered Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1813 with John Mazon, master, Raines & Co., owners, and trade Hull–Saint Croix.[3] As a West Indiaman she was armed with 10 cannons, though her owners reduced her armament after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. (Once she became a whaler she did not need any armament as she no longer had to fear privateers and pirates in the Caribbean.)
Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source |
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1814 | Mason | Raines & Co. | Hull–Saint Croix | LR |
1816 | Mason Bonnifer |
Rains & Co. | London–Saint Vincent London–Jamaica |
Register of Shipping |
Northern Fisheries whaler[]
From 1818 on, Jane became a whaler in the Northern Whale Fisheries, first at Greenland and then at the Davis Strait. In 1818 her captain was Sadler; in 1817 he had been captain of Aurora, whaling at Greenland.
The following data is from Coltish:[4]
Year | Master | Where | Whales | Tuns whale oil |
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1818 | Sadler | Greenland | 1 | 24 |
1819 | Sadler | Greenland | 3 | 18 |
1820 | Sadler | Greenland | 3 | 25 |
1821 | Gamblin | Greenland | 1 | 18 |
1822 | Maddison | Greenland | 4 | 66 |
1823 | Maddison | Davis Strait | 23 | 220 |
1824 | Maddison | Davis Strait | 8 | 114 |
1825 | Maddison | Davis Strait | 6 | 76 |
1826 | Maddison | Davis Strait | 7 | 103 |
1827 | Maddison | Davis Strait | 16 | 228 |
1828 | Maddison | Davis Strait | 13 | 156 |
1829 | Maddison | Davis Strait | 11 | 115 |
1830 | Maddison | Davis Strait | 5 | 91 |
1831 | Maddison | Davis Strait | 6 | 68 |
1832 | Maddison | Davis Strait | 26 | 247 |
1833 | Maddison | Davis Strait | 11 | 138 |
1834 | Robinson | Davis Strait | 4 | 21 |
1835 | Tather | Davis Strait | 1 | ? |
1836 | Tather | Davis Strait | Clean |
On 8 April 1828 Lloyd's List reported that Jane, Maddison, master, had put into Stromness leaky. Three days later it reported that she had been surveyed and had resumed her voyage.
Merchantman[]
After having returned from the Davis Strait in 1836 without having killed a single whale (i.e., "Clean"), and with whaling in the previous two years having been almost as poor, her owners shifted her to the merchant trade.
Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
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1836 | W.Tather Mackenzie |
Shackles & Co. | Hull–Davis Strait Hull |
LR; damages repaired 1836 |
1842 | W.Tather | Shackless J.Shackle |
Hull–Quebec Hull–Greenland |
LR; damages repaired 1836; small repairs 1840 & 1842 |
In 1842 Captain W. Tather sailed Jane to Greenland again, but the voyage was not very successful. She killed one whale and 861 seals.
Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
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1845 | J.Brown | J.Shackles | Hull–Greenland | LR; small repairs 1842 & 1843; damages repaired 1845 |
1850 | W.Walker | Anderson | Hull | LR |
1855 | W.Walker | Anderson | Leith–"U.Stts" | LR; homeport Bo'ness |
1860 | W.Walker | Anderson | Leith–Mediterranean | LR; homeport Bo'ness; small repairs 1857 |
1865 | J.Armstrong | Anderson | Leith–Baltic | LR; homeport Bo'ness; small repairs 1857 & 1862 |
Fate[]
LR for 1867 had unchanged information from that for 1865, except that it carried the annotation "[wr]ecked".[1]
Citations and references[]
Citations
References
- Coltish, William (c. 1842). An account of the success of the ships at the Greenland and Davis Straits fisheries 1772-1842 inclusive.
- 1813 ships
- Ships built in Kingston upon Hull
- Age of Sail merchant ships of England
- Whaling ships
- Maritime incidents in 1866