| History | |
|---|---|
 Great Britain | |
| Name | Traveller |
| Owner | Jos. Holt and Jn. Mellar |
| Builder | G. and N. Langborne, Whitby |
| Launched | 1792 |
| Fate | Lost 1806 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen | 393 [1] (bm) |
| Armament | 6 × 6-pounder guns (1795); later 6 × 4-pounder guns |
Traveller was a ship launched at Whitby in 1792. First she traded with the Baltic, then she was a London-based transport, next she traded between London and Quebec, and lastly she traded between England and the Baltic. She was lost in 1806 at Riga.
Traveller first entered Lloyd's Register in the 1793 volume. [2]
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1793 | S.Ellerby | J.Holt | Hull–Petersburg | LR |
| 1798 | Ellerby Middleton | J.Holt | London–Petersburg London transport | LR |
| 1806 | Middleton | J.Holt | London–Quebec | LR |
| 1807 | Dunning | J.Holt | Whitby–Baltic | Register of Shipping; small repairs 1805 |
Traveller, Denning, master, arrived at Riga from London on 19 September 1806. Lloyd's List reported in November that Traveller, Denning, master, of Whitby, was one of four vessels reported to be on shore at Riga, all of which were totally lost. [3] Another source gave the year of loss as 1807. [1]
HMS Scourge was the former merchant sloop Herald, launched in 1799, that the Admiralty purchased in 1803 for service as a convoy escort. The Admiralty had her laid up in 1805, and sold in 1816. Subsequent owners returned her to mercantile service and she sailed until 1835 when she was lost.
Shipley was launched in 1805 at Whitby. A privateer captured Shipley in 1806 on what was probably her maiden voyage, but the British Royal Navy recaptured her. Between 1817 and 1823, she made four voyages transporting convicts to New South Wales. The ship was wrecked in 1826.
Hyperion was launched at Whitby in 1810. She traded with Canada and the Baltic but then sailed to India in 1817. After her return she traded with the Baltic and was lost there in 1823.
Brunswick was launched at Newcastle in 1795. She made one voyage as an "extra ship", i.e., under charter, to the British East India Company (EIC). She then traded generally until she foundered in 1809.
Andersons was launched at Poole in 1798. She then made seven voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. After the end of the British slave trade in 1807 her owners sold her to new owners who employed her as a West Indiaman. By 1810 she was registered in Whitby. She then served as a general merchant vessel until she was wrecked in 1823.
Lord Mulgrave was launched at Whitby in 1783. She had a mercantile career until 1793 when the Admiralty hired her to serve as an armed ship protecting convoys. She was wrecked in 1799.
Paragon was launched at Whitby in 1800. Between 1803 and 1805 she served as an armed defense ship protecting Britain's coasts and convoys. She then served as a transport on the 1805 naval expedition to capture the Cape of Good Hope. Next, she returned to mercantile service and in 1814 a French privateer captured her, but the British Royal Navy recaptured her the next day. She sailed to India in 1818 under a license from the British East India Company (EIC), and was wrecked in March 1819 while inbound to Calcutta.
Hannah was launched at Whitby in 1793. Her owner in 1796 transferred her registry from Whitby to London. She traded with the Baltic, between London and Liverpool, and then the Baltic again. A Spanish privateer captured her in 1805.
HMS Vulture was launched in 1801 at South Shields as Warrior. The Royal Navy purchased her in 1803 as a sloop and renamed her. From 1808 through 1813 she was a floating battery at Jersey,. The Navy sold her in 1814 and she returned to mercantile service as Warrior. She was last listed in 1820, but does not seem to have sailed again after returning from east of the Cape in 1817.
Aurora was launched at Whitby in 1789. Between 1799 and 1806 she made four voyages as a whaler to the British southern whale fishery. She was last listed in 1809 with stale data since her whaling voyages.
Harpooner was launched at Whitby in 1769, or possibly a few years later. Her early career is obscure. She may have been a Greenland whaler between 1786 and 1792. She appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1801, and thereafter traded across the Atlantic. She was wrecked in 1816 with heavy loss of life.
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.
Bellona was launched at Lancaster in 1799. She was a West Indiaman that made one voyage as a whaler. She disappeared in 1809 as she was returning to England from Jamaica.
Majestic was launched at Whitby in 1801. She was London-based transport, though she also sailed to the Baltic. She was sold to the government in 1810.
Young William was launched at Whitby in 1779. Initially, she was a West Indiaman. Later she traded more widely, particularly to Russia and the Baltic. She was captured and recaptured in 1814 and was lost on Nargon Island in 1815.
Amphitrite was launched at Whitby in 1790. A French privateer captured her in 1794, but the Royal Navy recaptured her. She spent much of her career as a West Indiaman, finishing as a London transport. She was last listed in 1810 or 1811.
Woodford was launched in 1815 at Whitby as a West Indiaman. Between 1816 and 1817 she made two voyages to the Indian Ocean or the East Indies, sailing under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). She was wrecked at Laeso in November 1837.
Jenny's Adventure was a trawler and whaler in the 1780s to the very early 1800s. It had many masters over the years, and is notable for being sunk by the Broderick, the very ship which in 1824 saved the Hyperion's crew from their certain death at sea.
William and Ann was launched in 1781 at Whitby. From her launch until 1805 she alternated between being a transport and trading with the Baltic. In 1805 she became a whaler in the northern whale fishery. She wrecked in ice in 1830 in the Greenland fisheries on her 24th whaling voyage.
Several vessels have been named Traveller.