History
Great Britain
NameRoyalist
Launched1794, Sunderland
FateFoundered 15 April 1814
General characteristics
Tons burthen424, or 426 (bm)
Armament
  • 1810: 10 × 6–pounder guns
  • 1813: 10 × 6–pounder + 2 × 12–pounder guns

Royalist was launched in 1794 at Sunderland. She was a general trader until 1812 when she became a whaler in the northern whale fishery. She was lost in April 1814 while whaling in the Davis Strait.

Career

Royalist first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1795 with Robert Finley, master, H.Rudd, owner, and trade London–Hamburg.[1]

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1800 J.Wray Schoffield Hull–Petersburg LR
1805 F.Walton Schoffield Cork LR; damages repaired 1801
1810 Walton Schofield Hull–Baltic Register of Shipping
1812 J.Atkin
Edmonds		 Heseltine Hull–Quebec LR; rebuilt 1810
1813 A.Edmonds Gibson & Co. Hull–Davis Strait LR; rebuilt 1810 & damages repaired 1812

In 1812 Royalist became a Northern Whale Fishery whaler. The following data is from Coltish:[2]

Year Master Where Whales Tuns whale oil
1812 Edmonds 6 93
1813 Edmonds Davis Strait 0 0
1814 Edmonds Greenland 0 0

Fate

Lloyd's List (LL) reported in August 1814 that Royalist had foundered in the Davis Strait with the loss of all hands.[3] There had been 54 crew members on board.

It was believed that she had foundered at 61°30′N 59°00′W / 61.500°N 59.000°W / 61.500; -59.000. Three years later one of her casks washed ashore at Hoy Sound.[4]

Captain Benet, of Venerable had been in company before Royalist was lost. At 8 am on the 14th, they fell in with drift ice. A gale of 12 hours' duration developed, followed by a tremendous storm of 20 hours' duration. Royalist and Venerable separated; Captain Bennet believed that she had been lost to windward of some icebergs.[5]

Citations

  1. ↑ LR (1795), Seq.№R247.
  2. ↑ Coltish (c. 1842).
  3. ↑ LL 16 August 1814.
  4. ↑ Harrison (1952), p. 189.
  5. ↑ Macaulay (1879), pp. 38–39.

References

  • Coltish, William (c. 1842). An account of the success of the ships at the Greenland and Davis Straits fisheries 1772-1842 inclusive.
  • Harrison, George (1952). "Lost whaling ships". The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs (April): 189.
  • Macaulay, James (1879). All true, records of peril and adventure by sea and land [&c].
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