Neptune (1785 ship)

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History
United States
BuilderAmerica
Launched1778
Fatesold c. 1786
United Kingdom
NameNeptune
Acquiredc.1786
FateLast listed 1803
General characteristics
Tons burthen213,[1] or 218,[2] or 250,[3] or 300[4] (bm)

Neptune was launched in America in 1778. She enters Lloyd's Register as Neptune in 1786. (She apparently entered British ownership in 1785, but Lloyd's Register was not published in 1785.) She then sailed as general merchantman. In the late 1790s she was a whaler. She is last listed in 1803, though the data is stale and she was last surveyed in 1797.

Career[]

Lloyd's Register (1786) lists Neptune with P. Martin, master and owner, and trade London–Jamaica, changing to London–Maryland.[4] Lloyd's List, however, reported on 4 October 1784 that Neptune, Martin, master, from Suriname, had arrived at Hispaniola, and was expected to sail from Port-au-Prince to Quebec in mid-August.[5]

Year Master Owner Trade Source & notes
1790 P. Martin P. Martin Waterford–Newfoundland LR;[3] small repairs 1789
1795 J. French J. Jarrett London transport LR; good repair 1794
1800 T. Hopper Jarrett (jr.) London-Southern Fisheries LR; good repair 1796

Lloyd's List reported on 5 June 1789 that Neptune, Martin, master, had had to put back into Waterford after having been out some three weeks. She had become very leaky.[6]

Lloyd's Register for 1797 shows Neptune's master changing from J. French to T. Hopper, and her trade to London–South Seas.[2]

Captain Hopper sailed Neptune in 1797 on a whaling voyage to the East Coast of Africa.[1] She was at Delagoa Bay in late June 1798. There, on 28 June 1798, Captain Sever, of the East Indiaman Lion, chartered Neptune, Hopper, master, and two other English ships, London, Keen, master, and Eliza, Kerr, master, to carry Lion's cargo back to England. Lion had been carrying a cargo from Madras and Columbo to England when she had put into Delagoa Bay in distress. Despite the efforts of the three other English ships and three American ships there, Lion could not be saved.[7]

Neptune and Eliza towed Lion farther up the Maputo River and then remained for some weeks. Eventually, all three British whalers left with only a portion of the cargo. The bulk of Lion's cargo was to go on Britannia, which had since arrived.[7]

Citations and references[]

Citations

  1. ^ a b [1] Jones, A.G. E.; Dale Chatwin; and Rhys Richards. BSWF Database – voyages: Neptune.
  2. ^ a b Lloyd's Register (1797), Seq.№N131.
  3. ^ a b Lloyd's Register (1790), seq. №N162.
  4. ^ a b Lloyd's Register (1786), Seq.№N172.
  5. ^ Lloyd's List №1713.
  6. ^ Lloyd's List №2096.
  7. ^ a b White (1800).

References

  • Clayton, Jane M. (2014) Ships employed in the South Sea Whale Fishery from Britain: 1775-1815: An alphabetical list of ships. (Berforts Group). ISBN 9781908616524
  • White, William M. (1800) Journal of a Voyage Performed in the Lion Extra Indiaman, from Madras to Columbo and Da Lagoa Bay ... in the Year 1798: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants of Da Lagoa Bay and a Vocabulary of the Language. (John Stockdale).
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