Career
The Royal Navy seized the vessel that would become Brixton for trading with the French. A prize court condemned her on 26 April 1805 and new owners named her Brixton.
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
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| 1805 | J.Venner | Hull & Co. | London–Jamaica | Lloyd's Register (LR) |
| 1806 | J.Vener | C.Hall | London–Halifax, Nova Scotia | RS |
| 1810 | Ford | Hall & Co. | London transport | LR |
| 1816 | C.London | Wilton & Co. | London–Antigua | LR |
| 1818 | C.London | Wilton & Co. | London–Cape of Good Hope | LR |
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Early in May 1819 Brixton, London, master, had to put back into Bengal two days after sailing as she had spring a leak. [5] By 17 August she was at the Cape of Good Hope. She did not sail from the Cape until 23 December.
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
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| 1821 | C.London
Sherbrook
Lusk | Wilton & Co.
Andrews | London–Cape of Good Hope
Van Diemen's Land | LR |
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Brixton, Captain Lusk, sailed on 24 April 1821, from London for Australia, She reached Hobart in August and then arrived on 16 September at Sydney. She was not a convict transport per se, but she apparently carried convicts between colonies in both 1821 and on a second voyage in 1823. Most of the passengers aboard Brixton were free passengers, and on this first visit to Australia she brought missionaries. She sailed from Port Jackson on 26 November and Hobart on 29 December for London, via the Cape of Good Hope.
On 19 January 1823 Brixton arrived at Hobart with passengers. On 24 she was at anchor at Sydney during a thunderstorm. A lightning bolt struck her mainmast, destroying it. Later she transported seven convicts to Port Macquarie.
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
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| 1824 | J/Lusk
J.Stevens | Andreas | London–Newfoundland
London–Quebec | LR; small repairs 1821 & damages repaired 1824 |
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A report dated Plymouth 30 June 1824 stated that Brixton, Stevens, master, would have to unload to effect repairs. She had been on her way from London to Quebec when she became leaky. [6]
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
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| 1826 | J.Stevens | Flinn | London | LR; small repairs 1821 & damages repaired 1824 |
| 1827 | J.Stevens
Peters | Flinn | London | LR; small repairs 1821 & damages repaired 1824, & good repair 1825 |
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LL printed a letter dated Archangel, 8 September 1826, that reported that Brixton, Peters, master, had arrived there from Newcastle, but had run aground on the bar. Peters had thought it necessary to heave her down, although he did not believe that she had sustained damage. [7]
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
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| 1829 | J. Pearson | Burdes | Liverpool–Quebec | LR; good repair 1825 |
| 1835 | Sparrow
Album | Brown
T.Ward | Newcastle–Quebec
London–South Seas | LR; large repair 1834 |
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Whaler
1st whaling voyage (1835–1838): Captain J.Elbourn sailed from London in 1835. Brixton returned with 450 casks of whale oil on 14 March 1838. [4]
2nd whaling voyage (1838–1842): Captain John Elbourn sailed from London on 4 July 1838. Brixton returned to London on 2 August 1842 with 300 casks of whale oil. [4]
Kitty was a sailing ship that began her career as a West Indiaman. She then served the Royal Navy from 17 May 1804 to 17 January 1805 as a hired armed ship. Next she became a privateer. On her return from privateering she returned to mercantile service, particularly later trading with Russia. She underwent repairs in 1830 and a change in ownership to emerge as a whaler. After four whaling voyages between 1830 and 1846 she returned to mercantile service and was last listed in 1852.
Albion was a full-rigged whaler built at Deptford, England, and launched in 1798. She made five whaling voyages to the seas around New South Wales and New Zealand. The government chartered her in 1803 to transport stores and cattle, to Risdon Cove on the River Derwent, Tasmania.
King George was built on the Thames in 1783 as a West Indiaman. From 1817 she made four voyages to the British Southern Whale Fishery, and was condemned at Guayaquil in 1824 on her fifth.
Admiral Cockburn was a ship launched in New York in 1808 or Philadelphia in 1809, almost certainly under another name. The British captured the American ship in 1814 and she was sold as a prize. Corney & Co. purchased and renamed her; originally she served as a London-based transport. In 1829 she became a whaler in the southern whale fishery. She was wrecked at Muizenberg Beach, False Bay, Cape of Good Hope, in July 1839 while returning to London from her third whaling voyage.
Cumberland was launched in 1800 and sailed as a West Indiaman until 1807 or 1808 when she was sold to Enderbys. She then made five voyages as a South Seas whaler. Enderbys sold Cumberland and she proceeded to sail between England and Australia. In 1827 she sailed from Hobart and was never seen again. It later transpired that pirates had captured her off the Falkland Islands and killed her crew and passengers.
Emma was a merchant vessel launched at Calcutta in 1809 that served as a government armed ship in the British invasion of Île de France in 1810. In 1811 she sailed to England where she was sold. She then became a transport and later a whaler. Between 1815 and 1853 she made 11 whaling voyages. She was then sold and became a merchantman on the England-Australia run. Between 1851 and 1853 she made one more whaling voyage to the South Seas fisheries. She then returned to the England-Australia trade. In 1857 her home port became Hull, and she became a Greenland whaler, though that role may have begun as early as 1855. She was converted in 1864 to a screw steamer but was lost in April while seal hunting.
Cadmus was launched in 1813 at Sunderland. She traded with the East Indies under license from the British East India Company (EIC) until 1827. Then between 1827 and 1834 she made two voyages as a whaler. She was lost in 1835.
Bombay was launched in 1801 at Daman/Demaun. Her early career is obscure. From 1821 on she assumed Calcutta registry. Between 1832 and 1840 she made three voyages from London as a whaler. In 1842 she carried settlers for the New Zealand Company. She was last listed in 1853.
Glenmore was launched in 1806 at Elgin. She was initially a West Indiaman. She made one voyage to Bengal in 1813–14. She became a Greenland whaler in 1818 and made four full whaling voyages. She was lost in the White Sea in 1822.
Cicero was launched at Sunderland in 1796 and initially sailed as a West Indiaman. She was briefly captured in 1799 in a single-ship action with a French privateer. Later, she went whale hunting both in the northern whale fishery (1803-1808), and the southern whale fishery (1816-1823). She capsized at Limerick in September 1832 and was condemned there.
Venus was launched at Deptford in 1788 and made 15 voyages as a whaler in the British Southern Whale Fishery. She was last listed in 1823.
Reliance was launched at Coringa in 1815. She sailed east of the Cape of Good Hope until c.1827 when she sailed to England and assumed British registry. Once in Britain she sailed back and forth to Bengal under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). She also twice transported military convicts to New South Wales from Bengal. In 1832 Bennett sent Reliance on a whaling voyage to the Pacific. After she returned she sailed on a second whaling voyage, but this time to the Indian Ocean where she wrecked at the end of 1836.
Regalia was launched at Sunderland in 1811. In 1819 she made a voyage to Calcutta, sailing under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). she also sailed to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. From Sydney she engaged in several sealing hunting voyages to the waters around Macquarie Island. In 1826 she transported convicts from Dublin to New South Wales. From 1831 until 1852, when she was wrecked at Davis Strait, Regalia was a whaler in the northern whale fishery.
Comet was launched in 1791 at Rotherhithe. At the outbreak of war with France, she briefly became a privateer before the British East India Company (EIC) chartered her for one voyage to bring back sugar, saltpeter, and other goods from Bengal. Between 1812 and 1821 she made three voyages as a whaler in the British southern whale fishery. Then between 1823 and 1840 she became a whaler based in Hull, whaling in the northern whale fishery. She returned to trade in 1841 and was lost on 1 December 1843 homeward bound from Quebec.
Mellish was launched in 1819 at Kidderpore, Calcutta as Chicheley Plowden but renamed within the year and sold for a "free trader", i.e, a ship trading between England and India sailing under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). She then made two voyages transporting convicts, the first to New South Wales, and one to Van Diemen's Land (VDL). She next made two voyages as a South Seas whaler between 1831 and 1838. She was wrecked on 5 October 1844.
Venus was launched in France in 1802, possibly under another name. A Guernsey privateer captured her in 1805, but she first appeared as Venus in 1815. She traded generally until in 1830 she carried cargo to Port Jackson. Between 1831 and 1835 she made several voyages from Port Jackson as a whaler, sailing primarily to New Zealand waters. She returned to England and was last listed in 1838.
Mediterranean was launched in 1810 in Lowestoft or Great Yarmouth. Initially she sailed to the Mediterranean. Between 1819 and 1823 she made two voyages as a whaler in the British southern whale fishery. She then traded with India, sailing under a licence from the British East India Company (EIC). She may have shifted to India, before returning to British registry in 1835–1837 while performing a third whaling voyage. She then disappeared from online records.
Marquis/Marquess of Lansdown/Lansdowne was launched at Calcutta in 1824. She was initially a "country ship", trading east of the Cape of Good Hope. She then sailed to Port Jackson, but plans to establish a packet service between Australia and Calcutta, including taking tea from India to Australia under a licence from the British East India Company (EIC), did not work out. She then sailed to England and became a whaler, making four voyages to the British southern whale fishery between 1829 and 1845. She was last listed in 1847.
Denmark Hill was launched at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1809, under another name. She was taken in prize and in 1814 her new owners renamed her. She then spent another 25 years as a merchant ship. She transferred her registry to New South Wales and was lost there in 1839. During this time she also made some voyages as a whaler in the waters off New Zealand.
Dryade was launched at Bristol in 1825. She traded between England and Peru, the Indian Ocean, and then spent most of her career trading between England and New South Wales. Her crew and passengers abandoned her circa March 1841 when she developed a leak while sailing from Mauritius to London.
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