Jane (1813 Hull ship)

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Jane (middle vessel), Middleton, and Viewforth stuck fast in the ice. Thomas Binks (1799–1852). Maritime Museum, Hull
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Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svgUnited Kingdom
NameJane
BuilderHull
Launched1813
FateWrecked 1866
General characteristics
Tons burthen357, or 359 [1] (bm)
Length106 ft 7 in (32.5 m) [2]
Beam28 ft 2 in (8.6 m) [2]
Armament
  • 1813:2 × 9-pounder guns + 8 × 18-pounder carronades [3]
  • 1816a:2 × 9-pounder guns + 8 × 18-pounder carronades [1]
  • 1816b:2 × 9-pounder guns + 8 × 12-pounder carronades [1]

Jane was launched at Kingston upon Hull in 1813 as a West Indiaman. Between 1818 and 1836 she was a whaler in the northern whale fishery. She then became a merchantman and was wrecked in 1866.

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West Indiaman

Jane entered Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1813 with John Mazon, master, Raines & Co., owners, and trade Hull–Saint Croix. [3] As a West Indiaman she was armed with 10 cannons, though her owners reduced her armament after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. (Once she became a whaler she did not need any armament as she no longer had to fear privateers and pirates in the Caribbean.)

YearMasterOwnerTradeSource
1814MasonRaines & Co.Hull–Saint CroixLR
1816Mason
Bonnifer		Rains & Co.London–Saint Vincent
London–Jamaica		Register of Shipping

Northern Fisheries whaler

From 1818 on, Jane became a whaler in the Northern Whale Fisheries, first at Greenland and then at the Davis Strait. In 1818 her captain was Sadler; in 1817 he had been captain of Aurora, whaling at Greenland.

The following data is from Coltish: [4]

YearMasterWhereWhales Tuns whale oil
1818SadlerGreenland124
1819SadlerGreenland318
1820SadlerGreenland325
1821GamblinGreenland118
1822MaddisonGreenland466
1823MaddisonDavis Strait23220
1824MaddisonDavis Strait8114
1825MaddisonDavis Strait676
1826MaddisonDavis Strait7103
1827MaddisonDavis Strait16228
1828MaddisonDavis Strait13156

On 8 April 1828 Lloyd's List reported that Jane, Maddison, master, had put into Stromness leaky. Three days later it reported that she had been surveyed and had resumed her voyage.

YearMasterWhereWhales Tuns whale oil
1829MaddisonDavis Strait11115
1830MaddisonDavis Strait591
1831MaddisonDavis Strait668
1832MaddisonDavis Strait26247
1833MaddisonDavis Strait11138
1834RobinsonDavis Strait421
1835TatherDavis Strait1 ?

On 30 September 1835, Jane, Middleton, and Viewforth were beset by ice in Davis Strait while in close proximity. On 15 November, Middleton was crushed and sank. Jane and Viewforth split Middleton's crew. [5] In January 1835, Jane, Tather, master, got free of the ice at 58°0′N56°40′W / 58.000°N 56.667°W / 58.000; -56.667 . [6]

YearMasterWhereWhales Tuns whale oil
1836TatherDavis StraitClean

Merchantman

After having returned from the Davis Strait in 1836, without having killed a single whale (i.e., "Clean"), with whaling in the previous two years having been almost as poor, and after her overwintering in Davis Strait, her owners shifted her to the merchant trade.

YearMasterOwnerTradeSource & notes
1836W.Tather
Mackenzie		Shackles & Co.Hull–Davis Strait
Hull		LR; damages repaired 1836
1842W.TatherShackless
J.Shackle		Hull–Quebec
Hull–Greenland		LR; damages repaired 1836; small repairs 1840 & 1842

In 1842 Captain W. Tather sailed Jane to Greenland again, but the voyage was not very successful. She killed one whale and 861 seals.

YearMasterOwnerTradeSource & notes
1845J.BrownJ.ShacklesHull–GreenlandLR; small repairs 1842 & 1843; damages repaired 1845
1850W.WalkerAndersonHullLR
1855W.WalkerAndersonLeith–"U.Stts"LR; homeport Bo'ness
1860W.WalkerAndersonLeith–MediterraneanLR; homeport Bo'ness; small repairs 1857
1865J.ArmstrongAndersonLeith–BalticLR; homeport Bo'ness; small repairs 1857 & 1862

Fate

LR for 1867 had unchanged information from that for 1865, except that it carried the annotation "[wr]ecked". [2]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 RS (1816), Seq.№J177.
  2. 1 2 3 LR (1867), Seq.№J98.
  3. 1 2 LR (1813), Supple.pages "J", Seq.№J158.
  4. ↑ Coltish (c. 1842).
  5. ↑ Anon. (1837), pp. 145–156.
  6. ↑ Jones (1992), p. 234.

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