Naval vessel
Commander Henry Laroche commissioned her in January 1806 for the North Sea Station. Commander John Baker replaced Laroche in 1807.
On 3 February 1807 Two Brothers, Fox, master, arrived in the Downs after Kangaroo had recaptured her.. The French privateer Napoleon, of Boulogne, armed with 18 guns and carrying 98 men, had captured Two Brothers as she was sailing from Sunderland to Portsmouth. [3]
On 20 February 1807 with Kangaroo was in company with Otter and Clyde and so shared in the salvage money for the recapture of Farely, John Fryer, master. [4]
On 22 March Kangaroo captured Paccage, P. F. Nicotte, master. [5]
On 10 June Kangaroo captured Harriott, Harlow, master. [6] Harriett, of Baltimore, had been sailing from Bordeaux to Tonningen when Kangaroo detained her and sent her into the Downs. [7]
On 8 December Kangaroo recaptured Minerva, of Arundel, John Chapman, master. [8] Kangaroo took Minerve into Newhaven. [9]
On 20 November 1808, after a two hour chase, Kangaroo captured the French privateer lugger Egayant (or Gayant) some ten or 12 miles SE of Dungeness. She was armed with 14 guns and had a crew of 31 men. She was brand new and had sailed from Calais the previous morning on her first cruise. She taken one prize, a foreign galliot in ballast. [10] [11]
In December Kangaroo towed the naval transport Supply into the Downs. Supply had lost her foremast and bowsprit. [12]
In 1809 Kangaroo participated in the ill-fated Walcheren Campaign. A British force landed on 30 July 1809, and withdrew in December, having accomplished little and having suffered extensive casualties, primarily from disease. On 14 August San Domingo, the flagship of Admiral Sir Richard John Strachan grounded; Clyde came to her assistance until she could be refloated. [13] However, Strachan moved his flag to Kangaroo. [14] Later, she shared in the prize money for the property the British army captured during the campaign. [15]
On 9 January 1811 Kangaroo brought into Newhaven five bales of raw cotton marked "W. Hampton", and two unmarked bales. These were like some bales that two fishing boats found floating near Beachy Head. On 9 January 1811 Kangaroo brought into Newhaven five bales of raw cotton marked "W. Hampton", and two unmarked bales. These were like some bales that two fishing boats found floating near Beachy Head. The bales may have come from a vessel that had foundered. [16] Earlier, on 30 December, HMS Decoy had recovered some 25 similar bales. [17]
Kangaroo then escorted convoys in the Channel and to and from Jamaica. In 1813 she convoyed vessels to and from the Baltic. In 1814 she convoyed vessels to and from the Iberian Peninsula.
In March 1815 Kangaroo arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia with dispatches and a cartel schooner. Some two weeks later she escorted two transports carrying American prisoners to Salem, after the treaty ending the war with America.
Disposal: The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered the "Kangaroo sloop, of 369 tons", "lying at Plymouth", for sale on 14 December 1815. [18] Kangaroo sold at Plymouth on that day for £1,900.
Whaler
New owners renamed Kangaroo the Countess of Morley and sailed her as whaler to the Southern Whale Fishery. She entered Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1816 with H. Best, master, Rowe & Co., owners, and trade Plymouth–South Seas. [19]
1st whaling voyage (1816-1818): Captain H. Best sailed from Plymouth on 15 May 1816, bound for the Pacific. Countess of Morley returned on 19 June 1818 with 1900 barrels of whale oil. The voyage was a singularly safe one in that the crew suffered no deaths, illness, or casualties. [2]
2nd whaling voyage (1818–1821): Captain Luck (or Luce, or Lewis), sailed from Plymouth on 24 October 1818, bound for the Galapagos Islands. On her voyage Countess of Morley was variously reported at Valparaiso, Coquimbo, and the Azores. In late 1819 an Andes Chilean armed ship detained her, "seduced eight of her best seamen from her", and gave her eight "worthless men" in return. [20] Between 25 March 1821 and 2 May she was at Valparaiso with 1800 barrels of oil; she then returned to the fisheries. [21] Countess of Morley returned to Plymouth on 25 December 1821 with 2400 barrel of whale oil, much of it sperm oil.
3rd whaling voyage (1822-1825): Captain H. Best sailed from Plymouth on 13 September 1822. Countess of Morley returned to Plymouth on 5 August 1825. Later that month she was offered for sale at Devonport. [2]
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Eliza was a French prize that made nine voyages as a whaler between 1802 and 1822. She is last listed in 1824.
Rambler was launched in America in 1812. The British captured her in 1813 as she was returning to America from Manila. She then briefly became a West Indiaman. In 1815 she became a whaler in the Southern Fishery. She made four complete whaling voyages and was wrecked on her fifth.
HMS Coquette was launched in 1807 and spent her naval career patrolling in the Channel and escorting convoys. In 1813 she engaged an American privateer in a notable but inconclusive single-ship action. The Navy put Coquette in ordinary in 1814 and sold her in 1817. She became a whaler and made five whaling voyages before she was lost in 1835 on her sixth.
Norfolk was built in France in 1784 under a different name. The British captured her c. 1800 and she made some voyages as a West Indiaman. She also made a cruise as a privateer. Between 1803 and 1808 she served the Royal Navy as an armed defense and hired armed ship on the Leith Station. She spent her time escorting convoys in the North Sea and captured one French privateer. After her naval service, between 1808 and 1814 Norfolk was a London-based transport. From 1814 to 1820 she made four voyages as a whaler in the Southern Whale Fishery. She was last listed in 1823.
Royal George was launched in 1803 as a brig for the Revenue Service. The Royal Navy purchased her in 1806 and renamed her HMS Bustard. She served on active duty between 1808 and 1815, distinguishing herself in operations in the Mediterranean. She then sailed to the West Indies. The Royal Navy sold her in 1815 and she became the whaler Royal George. She made three whaling voyages and was lost in 1825 on her fourth.
Concord was launched at Dartmouth in 1807. From then until 1809 she traded widely. Between 1809 and 1812 two different histories emerged. The registers carried her as trading with North America. Other sources, however, have her sailing to the British Southern Whale Fishery as a sealer or whaler. She made three voyages between 1809 and 1816 in this capacity and then returned to trading. She was wrecked at the Cape of Good Hope in November 1816.
HMS Bonetta was launched in 1798 as the merchantman Adamant. The Royal Navy purchased her in 1803. She had a relatively unremarkable career escorting convoys in the North Sea and Channel before she was laid up in 1807 and sold in 1810. Her new owners in 1810 returned her name to Adamant. In 1816 she carried the first free settlers to Hobart in Van Diemen's Land. From there she sailed to engage in whaling. She was last reported at Timor in 1818.
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.
Spring Grove was a Spanish vessel, launched in 1801, that had been taken in prize in 1806 and that her new owners had renamed. She made six voyages as a Southern Whale Fishery whaler before she wrecked in 1824 on the outbound leg of what was to have been her seventh voyage.
Greenwich was launched on the Thames in 1800. Between 1800 and 1813 Samuel Enderby & Sons employed her as a whaler in the British Southern Whale Fishery, and she made four whaling voyages for them. In 1813 the United States Navy captured her in the Pacific and for about a year she served there as USS Greenwich. Her captors scuttled her in 1814.
Hebe was launched at Hull in 1809. She initially sailed as a West Indiaman, but then sailed to the Mediterranean. In 1813 a privateer captured her but the Royal Navy quickly recaptured her. Between 1816 and 1819 she made two voyages to India, sailing under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). On her return new owners sailed her as a whaler. She was wrecked on 10 March 1821 on her second whaling voyage to the British northern whale fishery.
Queen Charlotte was built in Emsworth in 1801. She was a regular packet ship for the Post Office Packet Service, sailing out of Falmouth. She made several voyages across the Atlantic between late 1802 and 16 May 1805 when she was captured. She came back into British hands around 1806. The Post Office took her into temporary service between 1812 and 1817. She then became a whaler off Peru in 1818. She remained in the Pacific Coast of South America until she was condemned there in 1820 as unseaworthy; she was last listed that same year. She may have been repaired and have continued to trade on the coast until 1822.
Thames was a Spanish vessel launched in 1804, almost certainly under a different name, and captured circa 1805. She became a whaler, making eight whaling voyages between 1805 and 1826. Although the registers carried Thames for some years after her return from her eighth voyage, there is no evidence that she ever sailed again.
Harmony was launched in 1798 in Lancaster as a West Indiaman. Between 1805 and 1807 she sailed to the Pacific on a privateering voyage. Early in the voyage she was engaged in a single ship action in which her target repelled the attack, killing Harmony's master and inflicting severe casualties on her crew. Although Harmony returned to trading with the West Indies, in 1817 she made one voyage to India under a licence from the British East India Company. On her return she traded between Hull and Petersburg, and Quebec. New owners in 1821 decided to use her as a whaler in the northern whale fishery. She was lost there on her first whaling voyage.
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