List of ships owned by Daniel Bennett & Son

By the early 19th Century Daniel Bennett was the most important owner of vessels engaging in whale hunting in the Southern Whale Fishery. At one point he had some 17 vessels out whale hunting. Bennett purchased vessels rather than having them built for him.[1] Many of Bennett's vessels appear to have been prizes to the Royal Navy, or warships that the Navy was disposing of after the end of the French Revolutionary (1802), or Napoleonic Wars (1815). Name changes make it difficult, or impossible absent original research, to identify many of the vessels' earlier histories.

The list below is primarily from Stanbury.[2]

  • Active (1789–1792)
  • Active (1801–1803}
  • Active (1804–1805)
  • Adventure (1804–1808)
  • African (1803–1810)
  • Ann (1793–1797)
  • Antelope (1804–1808)
  • Arab (1819–1820)
  • Arab (1813–1824)
  • Betsy (1785 or 1791–1811)
  • Caledonia (1800–1806)
  • Cape Packet (1821–1830)
  • Catherine (1813–1833)
  • Ceres (1791)
  • Conservative (1836)
  • Countess de Galvaez (1794)
  • Currency Lass (1839)
  • Daniel (1818–1832)
  • Daniel IVth (1823–1830)
  • Diana (1802–1821)
  • Diana (1829-1844)
  • Dave (1827–1832)
  • Duke of Portland (1797–1811)
  • Echo (1809–1821)
  • Eclipse (1824–1842)
  • Elligood (1795–1805)
  • Fancy (1790)
  • Fanny (1794–1803)
  • Favourite (1808)
  • Favourite (1819–1823)
  • Favourite (1816–1845)
  • Ferret (1802–1816)
  • Flirt (1796–1803)
  • Francis (1819–1826)
  • Frederick (1813–1821)
  • Georgia Packet (1813)
  • Grand Sachem (1816–1825)
  • Greenwich (1830–1833)
  • Hillsborough (1799)
  • Hunter (1815–1822)
  • Indispensable (1796–1827)
  • Inspector (1802–1822)
  • James Hay (1818–1822)
  • Japan (1831)
  • Kent (1838–1844)
  • Kingston (1798–1802)
  • Lively (1786–1792)
  • Lively (1799–1808)
  • Lord Hawkesbury (1792–1796)
  • Lovely Ann (1819–1825)
  • Lucy (1804)
  • Lune (1817–1820)
  • Magnet (1832–1835)
  • Mariana/Marianne/Mary Ann (1818–1830)
  • Mary (1805–1810)
  • Morning Star (1813)
  • Nereid/Neried (1814)
  • New Zealander (1808–1825)
  • Nimrod (1839)
  • Ocean (1820–1825)
  • Ocean (1822–1825)
  • Phoenix (1812–1829)
  • Rambler (1803–1807)
  • Ranger (1806–1816)
  • Ranger (1819–1832)
  • Rapid (1820–1826)
  • Recovery (1802–1813)
  • Recovery (1813–1843)
  • Recovery (1810–1817)
  • Reliance (1833–1838)
  • Royal George (1816–1825)
  • Royal Sovereign (1825–1835)
  • Sally (1796–1814)
  • Sarah (1821–1837)
  • Sir Charles Price (1815-1833)
  • Sisters (1825–1830)
  • Sprightly (1801–1809)
  • Timor (1813–1834)
  • Vansittart (1820–1826)
  • Venus (1805–1811)
  • Vere (1790-1793)
  • Young William

The following vessels are listed in Stanbury, but appear not to be whalers, or Bennett-owned vessels.[2]

  • Lyra (1824–1833)
  • Stormont (1784–c.1794)
  • Tyne (1821–1831)

Citations and references

Citations

  1. ↑ Clayton (2014), p.18.
  2. 1 2 Stanbury et al. (2015), App.7.

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
  • Stanbury, Myra, Kandy-Jane Henderson, Bernard Derrien, Nicolas Bigourdan, & Evelyne Le Touze (2015) "Chapter 18: Epilogue" [online]. In: Stanbury, Myra. The Mermaid Atoll Shipwreck: A Mysterious Early 19th-century Loss. (Fremantle, WA: Australian National Centre of Excellence for Maritime Archaeology and the Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology): 235-290. [ ISBN 9781876465094 [cited 20 Aug 18].
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