Duchess of Buccleugh (or Dutchess of Buccleugh) was launched at Lieth in 1784. She ran ashore in 1788 near Yarmouth and was wrecked.
Dutchess of Buccleugh first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1784 with Pottinger, master, J.Mason, owner, and trade Leith–Copenhagen.[1]
Lloyd's List (LL) reported on 12 December 1788 that Dhs. of Buccleugh, Brown, master, had grounded on the Cockle Sand while sailing from Leith to London. It was hoped that she could be got off if the weather was good.[2] A letter from Yarmouth dated 14 December reported that Dutchess of Buccleugh had gone to pieces.[3]
The British Royal Navy purchased HMS Shark on the stocks in 1775. She was launched in 1776, and in 1778 converted to a fireship and renamed HMS Salamander. The Navy sold her in 1783. She then became the mercantile Salamander. In the 1780s she was in the Greenland whale fisheries. In 1791 she transported convicts to Australia. She then became a whaling ship in the South Seas whale fisheries for a number of years, before becoming a general transport and then a slave ship. In 1804 the French captured her, but the Royal Navy recaptured her. Although she is last listed in 1811, she does not appear in Lloyd's List (LL) ship arrival and departure (SAD) data after 1804.
Coldstream was launched at Shields in 1788. She first appeared under the Coldstream name in Lloyd's Register in 1800; her earlier history is currently obscure. Between 1801 and 1805 she made two voyages to the Southern Whale Fishery. A French privateer captured her in 1805 during the second.
East Indian was built at Hull in 1819. Her first major voyage was to carry immigrants to South Africa under the British Government's 1820 Settlers scheme. She returned to England but then wrecked on 22 or 23 December 1821 outward bound for London and Bengal.
Marquis Cornwallis was launched at Sunderland in 1802. She traded widely, to the West Indies, the Iberian peninsula, and the Baltic. The American privateer Chasseur captured her in 1814 but released her as a cartel. She was wrecked in 1823.
Earl Fauconberg was launched at Whitby in 1765. From 1784 on she made numerous voyages as a Greenland whaler. She was lost there in 1821.
Blenheim may have been launched in 1776 in Philadelphia as Britannia. By 1777 she was the Massachusetts-based privateer American Tartar and had taken several prizes. She had also participated in an inconclusive single-ship action with a British merchantman. The British Royal Navy captured American Tartar late in 1777 and she became HMS Hinchinbrook. The Royal Navy sold her in 1783 and she became the West Indiaman Blenheim. In 1785-86 she became a Greenland whaler and she continued in that trade until two French frigates captured and burnt her in 1806.
Lord Wellington was launched in 1811 at Great Yarmouth. She was a West Indiaman but in 1820 made one voyage to India under license from the British East India Company (EIC). Her crew abandoned her in the North Atlantic in July 1825 when she became waterlogged.
Duchess of Portland was launched at Bristol in 1783. She was primarily a West Indiaman but made one voyage as a slave ship and two as a whaler in the British Southern Whale Fishery. The US Navy captured her in 1812 and burnt her.
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.
Shah Ardaseer was built at Bombay, probably in 1786. English transliterations of her name show her as Shah or Shaw + Adaseer, or Ardaseer, or Ardasier, or Adasier, or Ardasheer, or Ardeseer, or Ardesir. A fire on 13 September 1809 at Bombay burnt her. She then may have been recovered, repaired, and enlarged to become the hulk HMS Arrogant, which was moved to Trincomalee in 1822 and sold there in 1842.
Bush & Dreghorn was a merchantman launched in 1798 at Leith. In 1812 a French privateer captured her, but the British Royal Navy recaptured her. She was wrecked in January 1815.
Rachael was launched in 1795 at Spain and may have been taken in prize in 1799. She entered British records in 1801. In 1803 she suffered a maritime mishap, and later was captured by a French privateer, but recaptured by the British Royal Navy. She was lost at Fayal, Azores in 1810.
Magdalen was launched in Mehil, Fife in 1802. From 1804 to 1805 she served on convoy duty in the North Sea for the British Royal Navy as a hired armed ship. She then returned to mercantile service and continued to sail for over 45 years, going as far as Malta and Quebec, though mostly sailing along Britain's coasts. She was last listed in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1853.
Morse was launched in 1747 for the British Royal Navy. After 1775 she was John and Alice (1775), Potomack (1776–1779), Betsy (1780-1781), and then in 1782 Resolution. In 1784 S. Mellish purchased her and she became the whaler Morse. She initially engaged in whale hunting in the British Northern Whale Fishery (Greenland). Then from 1787 she made numerous voyages as a whaler primarily in the Southern Whale Fishery, but with some returns to the Northern Fishery. There is no further mention of her in Lloyd's List Ship arrival and departure (SAD) data after August 1802.
Vulture was built in France 1777 and captured. By early 1779 she was sailing as a privateer out of Liverpool. She then became a slave ship. She made 10 voyages as slaver and was captured in 1795 on her 11th such voyage.
King George was launched in France in 1775 under another name, possibly as Enterprize. She became a Bristol-based slave ship. Under the name Sally she made three slave-trading voyages between 1783 and 1786. Then from 1787 on as King George she made three more complete slave-trading voyages. She was lost at Barbados in 1791 on her seventh voyage with the loss of 280 of the 360 slaves on board.
Several vessels have been named Duke of Buccleugh for the Duke of Buccleuch:
Several vessels have been named Duchess of Buccleugh or Duchess of Buccleuch for one or another Duchess of Buccleuch:
Duchess of Buccleuch was launched in 1843 at South Shields as an East Indiaman. She was wrecked in 1850.
Duke of Buccleugh was launched at Yarmouth in 1783. In 1789 she became a slave ship. She made five complete voyages trading slaves before a French privateer captured her in September 1797 after she had delivered her slaves on her sixth voyage.
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