Harriet (1809 ship)

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Flag of the United States.svgUnited States
NameHarriet
Launched1809, Massachusetts, [1] or 1810, New York [2] [lower-alpha 1]
Captured1813
Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svgUnited Kingdom
NameHarriet
Acquired1813 by purchase of a prize
FateWrecked 6 or 14 October 1833
General characteristics
Tons burthen410, or 417, or 4174⁄94, [1] or 427 [2] (bm)
Length111 ft 9 in (34.1 m) [3]
Beam29 ft 2 in (8.9 m) [3]
Armament4 × 9-pounder guns + 8 ×18-pounder carronades [2]

Harriet was launched in Massachusetts in 1809. The British captured her and on 13 January 1813 a prize court condemned her. New owners retained her name. [1] She became a West Indiaman, and made one voyage to New South Wales. Between 1818 and 1832 she made four complete voyages as a whaler in the British southern whale fishery. She was lost in October 1833 in the Seychelles on her fifth whaling voyage.

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Career

Harriet first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) for 1814. [4]

YearMasterOwnerTradeSource
1814J.NairneSeal & Co.LondonLR
1816Nairn
Jones		Baghouse
Underwood		London–Jamaica
London–New South Wales		Register of Shipping [2]
1816J.Nairne
J.Jones		Seal & Co.
J. Underwood & Co.		London–South SeasLR

LR shows Harriet, Jones, master, leaving for Bombay on 8 July 1817, sailing under a licence from the British East India Company. [5] However, that report appears to be in error.

Harriet arrived at Hobart Town on 21 March 1817, [6] and at Port Jackson on 11 May 1817 from London, with passengers and merchandise. She left for New Zealand 28 June. She returned to Port Jackson from New Zealand in September, with "spars, etc.", and sailed for London in December. [7] She arrived back at Gravesend on 21 June 1818.

YearMasterOwnerTradeSource
1819J.JonesBell & CoLondon–South SeasLR

LR reported that on 9 September 1818 Harriet, J.Jones, master, had again sailed for Bombay. [8] This too appears to be in error.

1st whaling voyage (1818–1822): Lloyd's List reported in September 1818 that Harriet, Jones, master, from London to New South Wales, had on 11 September arrived at the Downs, leaky. She had run onto the Margate Sands and would have to put back into the Thames to repair. [9]

Captain James Jones sailed on 20 September for New Zealand, the Pacific Ocean, and New Zealand. No.5315. She left on 20 September bound for Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Ocean, and Chile. [10] On 1 December she was at Bona Vista (Boa Vista, Cape Verde), on her way to "New Holland".

Harriet arrived at Sydney in ballast on 12 February 1819; she sailed for the whale fishery on 6 March. She was reported to have been at Chile and New Zealand in 1821. She arrived back in London on 31 May 1822 with 317 casks of sperm oil and 330 tons of whale oil. [10]

YearMasterOwnerTradeSource & notes
1822J.Jones
Anderson		Bell & CoLondon–South SeasLR; large repair 1822

2nd whaling voyage (1822–1825): Captain William Anderson sailed from London on 4 December 1822, bound for the New south Wales fishery and New Zealand. She arrived at Port Jackson on 8 May 1823. From there she visited Tonga and Bay of Islands. She arrived back in Port Jackson on 29 April 1824 from New Zealand with 125 tons of sperm oil, which she may have transshipped. On 17 May she sailed again for the whale fishery. On 7 August 1825 she sailed from Port Jackson for England. She arrived in England on 27 December 1825 with 319 casks of whale oil. [10]

3rd whaling voyage (1826–1829): By the time of this voyage ownership had transferred from Bell & Co., to Jones & Co., and lastly to John Lydekker. Captain Edward Reed (or Reid, or Poad) sailed from London on 15 May 1826, bound for the Sandwich Islands. Harriet was reported at Honolulu and Woohoo, at various times. She arrived back in England on 10 January 1829 with more than 2200 barrels of whale oil. [10]

YearMasterOwnerTradeSource & notes
1829Anderson
Reid		Jones & CoLondon–South SeasLR; large repair 1822

4th whaling voyage (1829–1832): Captain Reed sailed from London on 9 June 1829. At various times she was reported at Honolulu, the Japan Grounds, Guam, Honolulu, and Tahiti. Then Harriet, whaler, of 417 tons (bm) and 34 men, was reported to have been at San Francisco in October 1831. [11] She was at Sausalito on 7 October, having come from Japan. [12] She also visited Tahiti on 23 March 1832. She returned to England on 21 August 1832 with 480 casks of whale oil. [10]

YearMasterOwnerTradeSource
1833Read
Maclean		Jones & Co.
Templer		London–Southern FisheryRS; small repairs 1829

Fate

Harriet, McLean, master, sailed from London on 3 November 1832 on a fifth whaling voyage. On 30 August she was in the Mozambique Channel near Bay of Saint-Augustin where she spoke Reliance. Harriet reported that Captain McLean had died, and that the other officers and crew were refusing to obey Mr. Long as commander.

On 14 October 1833 Harriet, Skey, master, was wrecked on Île Poivre (Pepper Island; 5°46′S53°19′E / 5.767°S 53.317°E / -5.767; 53.317 ), in the Seychelles, while on a whaling voyage. [1] [13] Her crew were rescued. She been sailing from Mauritius to the Seychelles. [14] [15] French sources state that the whaler Harriet, Skey, master, was wrecked on 6 October 1833 on a horseshoe reef near Île Poivre. The crew landed there. [16]

Notes

  1. ↑ This latter information may represent a temporary conflation of the Harriet of the present article with Harriet (1810 ship).

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 Hackman (2001), pp. 281–282.
  2. 1 2 3 4 RS (1816), Seq.No.H217.
  3. 1 2 Dalton (1990), p. 33.
  4. ↑ LR (1814), Supple. pages "H", Seq.No.H25.
  5. ↑ LR (1818), "Licensed and Country Ships".
  6. ↑ "Hobart Town SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1817. p.1". The Hobart Town Gazette And Southern Reporter, Saturday, 22 March 1817, p.1. 22 March 1817. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  7. ↑ "Arrival of Vessels at Port Jackson, and their Departure". Australian Town and Country Journal, Saturday 3 January 1891, p.16. 3 January 1891. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  8. ↑ LR (1819), "Licensed India Ships".
  9. ↑ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 5315. 15 September 1818. hdl:2027/hvd.32044105226351 . Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 British Southern Whale Fishery Database – Voyages: Harriet.
  11. ↑ Bancroft (1886), p. 382.
  12. ↑ Huff (1957), p. 10.
  13. ↑ Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, (March 1834), Volume 13, p.222.
  14. ↑ "Ship News". The Times. No. 15398. London. 11 February 1834. col F.
  15. ↑ "Ship News". The Standard. No. 2106. 10 February 1834.
  16. ↑ Almanach des Îles Séchelles, pour l'année bissextile 1840, p.40.

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