Engineering:Britannia (1798 ship)
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 Great Britain
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| Name: | Britannia |
| Owner: | W. Boyd[1] |
| Builder: | Dutch |
| Acquired: | 1798 by purchase of a prize |
| Homeport: | London |
| Captured: | 1801 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen: | 296,[1] or 309[2] (bm) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Armament: | 8 × 12-pounder carronades[2] |
Britannia was a merchant vessel captured from the Dutch. She made one complete whaling voyage to the South Seas. A Spanish vessel captured her at the Galapagos Islands in 1801 on her second whaling voyage.
Career
Britannia was a Dutch prize, captured in 1797 that underwent repairs in 1798.[3] She entered Lloyd's Register in 1798 with W. Shaw, master, W. Boyd, owner, and trade Portsmouth-Jamaica.[1] In 1799 Mortlock replaced Shaw as master, and her trade was listed as Portsmouth-Cape of Good Hope.[4]
Whaling voyage: Captain Mortlake left Britain on 13 March 1799. Britannia called in at Rio de Janeiro in July for sugarcane syrup.[5] She returned to England on 30 May 1800.[6]
Loss: In May 1801 Lloyd's List reported that a Spanish ship of 24 guns had captured "Britannia, late Mortlock, of London", and Castor & Pollux, Anderson, master, in the Galapagos Islands. The Spaniards then took their prizes into Lima.[7] Their captor was the privateer Atlante, under the command of Dominque de Orué.[8]
Citations
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lloyd's Register (1798), Supplement, Seq. №B381.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lloyd's Register (1800), Seq. №290.
- ↑ Register of Shipping (1801), Seq. №379.
- ↑ Lloyd's Register (1799), Seq.№267.
- ↑ Clayton (2014), p. 77.
- ↑ Southern Whale Fishery - Voyages: Britannia.
- ↑ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (4152). 19 May 1801.
- ↑ Ortiz Sotelo (2012), p. 258.
References
- Clayton, Jane M (2014). Ships employed in the South Sea Whale Fishery from Britain: 1775–1815: An alphabetical list of ships. Berforts Group. ISBN 9781908616524.
- Ortiz Sotelo, Jorge (2012). "El Callao y la Real Armada". El último viaje de la Fregata Mercedes. Peru: Museo Naval & Museo Arquelogico Nacional. pp. 253–262. https://www.academia.edu/45676928.
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