Engineering:Duke of York (1780 ship)

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For other ships with the same name, see Duke of York (ship).
History
Great Britain
Name: Duke of York
Owner: Richard Cadman Etches
Builder: Archangel
Launched: 1780
Fate: Lost 11 September 1787
General characteristics
Tons burthen: 500 (bm)
Propulsion: Sail

Duke of York was a fir-built ship of 500 tons (bm), built in 1780 at Archangel. In 1787 her owner was "Hitchie", her master "Jn Wolff", and her trade London—South Seas, indicating that she was a whaler.[1] More accurately, her master was John Wolfe,[2] Woolf, or Wolf, and her owner Richard Cadman Etches.[2] She sailed on 21 April 1787 for the South Seas.[3]

Etches had received a license from the South Sea Company to sail around Cape Horn into the Pacific.[2] He dispatched her to reinforce the settlement at New Years Harbour (now Puerto Ano Nuevo) on Staten Island (now Isla de los Estados), off Tierra del Fuego.[lower-alpha 1] Seal hunters established a factory there in 1786,[5] which was also well-located for vessels rounding Cape Horn to refresh and replenish their water.[4]

On 4 June, Duke of York sailed from St Jago, "all well".[6] By August, she was at the Falkland Islands, "all well".[7]

On 11 September, shortly after she arrived at New Years Harbour, Duke of York was lost. Her crew, however, was saved.[8]

The loss of Duke of York ended the factory. The people took to their boats and left the island.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Captain James Cook, then on his second voyage of exploration, had named the harbour after the date of his arrival, New Year's Day, 1775.[4]

Citations

  1. ↑ Lloyd's Register (1787), №S216.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Clayton (2014), p. 106.
  3. ↑ British Southern Whale Fishery Database – voyages: Duke of York.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gallois (2011), p. 305, №105.
  5. ↑ Gallois (2011), p. 78.
  6. ↑ "The Marine List". New Lloyd's List (1907). 14 August 1787. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008145784;view=1up;seq=141. 
  7. ↑ "The Marine List". New Lloyd's List (1944). 25 December 1787. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008145784;view=1up;seq=215. 
  8. ↑ "The Marine List". New Lloyd's List (1972): 78 v. 28 March 1788. 

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. 
  • Gallois, Robert (2011). A Voyage to the North West Side of America: The Journals of James Colnett, 1786-89. UBC Press. ISBN 9780774808552. 



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