Necker (1789 ship)

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History
France
NameNecker
NamesakeJacques Necker
In service1789
CapturedLate 1793
General characteristics
Tons burthen300, or 399 (bm)
Complement20 or 21 men[1]

Necker was a French whaler operating out of Dunkirk under United States masters (primarily from Nantucket) that made three whaling voyages to Greenland, the coast of Brazil, and the Pacific, before a British privateer captured her in September 1793 after the outbreak of war with France while she was on her fourth voyage.

Career[]

The source for the whaling voyages is the Whaling History database.[2] William Haydon commissioned Necker in April 1789, with 20 men.[3]

1st whaling voyage (1789): Captain Richard Coffin sailed Necker to Greenland on 26 April 1789. She returned on 26 July.

2nd whaling voyage (1789–1790): Captain Richard Coffin sailed Necker to the coast of Brazil on 13 August 1789. On 7 September Neckar, Coffin, master, was at Santiago, Cape Verde.[4] Later during the voyage a whale killed Coffin; Amaziah Gardner replaced him as master. Necker returned to Dunkirk on 28 June 1790 with 583 barrels of whale oil and 6000 pounds of whale bone.

3rd whaling voyage (1790–1792): Captain John Hawes sailed Necker from Dunkirk on 10 October 1790, bound for the Pacific. Neckar, Howes, master, was reported to have been well on 15 June 1790 around Cape Horn.[5] She returned to Dunkirk on 26 March 1792 with 839 barrels of whale oil. By one report, at the time of her return to Dunkirk she was under the command of "Coffin".[6]

4th whaling voyage (1792–1793): Captain George Whippey sailed Necker from Dunkirk on 3 September 1792, bound for the coast of Brazil.

Capture[]

The British privateer Bustler, Hugh Passmore, master, captured Necker in September 1793,[7] and sent her into Dartmouth.[8] Neckar, Mitchell, master, prize to Bustler, arrived at Gravesend on 21 October 1793.[9]

Citations and references[]

Citations

  1. ^ Memoires (1909), p.165.
  2. ^ French voyages: Necker (voyages FV0687 to FV0690.
  3. ^ Demerliac (1996), p. 327, No. 3132.
  4. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 2140. 6 November 1789. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  5. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 2364. 6 January 1792. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  6. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 2388. 30 March 1792. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  7. ^ "No. 13629". The London Gazette. 4 March 1794. p. 205.
  8. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 2545. 24 September 1793. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  9. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 2553. 22 October 1793. Retrieved 29 October 2021.

References

  • Demerliac, Alain (1996). La Marine de Louis XVI: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1774 à 1792 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 9782906381230. OCLC 468324725.
  • Memoires (1909), Volumes 49–50. Publisher: Société dunkerquoise pour l'encouragement des sciences, des lettres et des arts.
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