Jane (1813 Hull ship)

Short description: British merchantman and whaler 1818–1866

For other ships with the same name, see Jane (ship).

Jane (middle vessel), Middleton, and Viewforth stuck fast in the ice. Thomas Binks (1799–1852). Maritime Museum, Hull

History
United Kingdom
Name| Jane
Builder| Hull
Launched| 1813
Fate| Wrecked 1866
General characteristics
Tons burthen:|  357, or 359[1] (bm)
Length:|  106 ft 7 in (32.5 m)[2]
Beam:|  28 ft 2 in (8.6 m)[2]
Armament:|

* 1813:2 × 9-pounder guns + 8 × 18-pounder carronades[3]
* 1816a:2 × 9-pounder guns + 8 × 18-pounder carronades[1]
* 1816b:2 × 9-pounder guns + 8 × 12-pounder carronades[1]

Jane was launched at Kingston upon Hull in 1813 as a West Indiaman. Between 1818 and 1836 she was a whaler in the northern whale fishery. She then became a merchantman and was wrecked in 1866.

## Contents

* 1 West Indiaman
* 2 Northern Fisheries whaler
* 3 Merchantman
* 4 Fate
* 5 Citations
* 6 References

## West Indiaman

Jane entered Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1813 with John Mazon, master, Raines & Co., owners, and trade Hull–Saint Croix.[3] As a West Indiaman she was armed with 10 cannons, though her owners reduced her armament after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. (Once she became a whaler she did not need any armament as she no longer had to fear privateers and pirates in the Caribbean.)

Year  | Master  | Owner  | Trade  | Source

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1814  | Mason  | Raines & Co.  | Hull–Saint Croix  | LR
1816  | Mason
Bonnifer  | Rains & Co.  | London–Saint Vincent
London–Jamaica  | Register of Shipping

## Northern Fisheries whaler

From 1818 on, Jane became a whaler in the Northern Whale Fisheries, first at Greenland and then at the Davis Strait. In 1818 her captain was Sadler; in 1817 he had been captain of Aurora, whaling at Greenland.

The following data is from Coltish:[4]

Year  | Master  | Where  | Whales  | Tuns whale oil

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1818  | Sadler  | Greenland  | 1  | 24
1819  | Sadler  | Greenland  | 3  | 18
1820  | Sadler  | Greenland  | 3  | 25
1821  | Gamblin  | Greenland  | 1  | 18
1822  | Maddison  | Greenland  | 4  | 66
1823  | Maddison  | Davis Strait  | 23  | 220
1824  | Maddison  | Davis Strait  | 8  | 114
1825  | Maddison  | Davis Strait  | 6  | 76
1826  | Maddison  | Davis Strait  | 7  | 103
1827  | Maddison  | Davis Strait  | 16  | 228
1828  | Maddison  | Davis Strait  | 13  | 156

On 8 April 1828 Lloyd's List reported that Jane, Maddison, master, had put into Stromness leaky. Three days later it reported that she had been surveyed and had resumed her voyage.

Year  | Master  | Where  | Whales  | Tuns whale oil

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1829  | Maddison  | Davis Strait  | 11  | 115
1830  | Maddison  | Davis Strait  | 5  | 91
1831  | Maddison  | Davis Strait  | 6  | 68
1832  | Maddison  | Davis Strait  | 26  | 247
1833  | Maddison  | Davis Strait  | 11  | 138
1834  | Robinson  | Davis Strait  | 4  | 21
1835  | Tather  | Davis Strait  | 1  | ?

On 30 September 1835, Jane, Middleton, and Viewforth were beset by ice in Davis Strait while in close proximity. On 15 November, Middleton was crushed and sank. Jane and Viewforth split Middleton's crew.[5] In January 1835, Jane, Tather, master, got free of the ice at  [ ⚑ ] 58°0′N 56°40′W﻿ / ﻿58°N 56.667°W﻿ / 58; -56.667.[6]

Year  | Master  | Where  | Whales  | Tuns whale oil

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1836  | Tather  | Davis Strait  | Clean  |

## Merchantman

After having returned from the Davis Strait in 1836, without having killed a single whale (i.e., "Clean"), with whaling in the previous two years having been almost as poor, and after her overwintering in Davis Strait, her owners shifted her to the merchant trade.

Year  | Master  | Owner  | Trade  | Source & notes

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1836  | W.Tather
Mackenzie  | Shackles & Co.  | Hull–Davis Strait
Hull  | LR; damages repaired 1836
1842  | W.Tather  | Shackless
J.Shackle  | Hull–Quebec
Hull–Greenland  | LR; damages repaired 1836; small repairs 1840 & 1842

In 1842 Captain W. Tather sailed Jane to Greenland again, but the voyage was not very successful. She killed one whale and 861 seals.

Year  | Master  | Owner  | Trade  | Source & notes

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1845  | J.Brown  | J.Shackles  | Hull–Greenland  | LR; small repairs 1842 & 1843; damages repaired 1845
1850  | W.Walker  | Anderson  | Hull  | LR
1855  | W.Walker  | Anderson  | Leith–"U.Stts"  | LR; homeport Bo'ness
1860  | W.Walker  | Anderson  | Leith–Mediterranean  | LR; homeport Bo'ness; small repairs 1857
1865  | J.Armstrong  | Anderson  | Leith–Baltic  | LR; homeport Bo'ness; small repairs 1857 & 1862

## Fate

LR for 1867 had unchanged information from that for 1865, except that it carried the annotation "[wr]ecked".[2]

## Citations

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 RS (1816), Seq.№J177.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 LR (1867), Seq.№J98.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 LR (1813), Supple.pages "J", Seq.№J158.
4. ↑ Coltish (c. 1842).
5. ↑ Anon. (1837), pp. 145–156.
6. ↑ Jones (1992), p. 234.

## References

* Anon. (1837). "The Viewforth". The Pilot, or Sailors' Magazine (British and foreign sailors' society) (May): 145–56.
* Coltish, William (c. 1842). An account of the success of the ships at the Greenland and Davis Straits fisheries 1772-1842 inclusive. https://hydra.hull.ac.uk/assets/hull:7178/content.
* Jones, A.E. (1992). Polar Portraits: Collected Papers. Caedmon of Whitby.

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