Royalist (1794 ship)

History
Great Britain
Name:	Royalist
Launched:	1794, Sunderland
Fate:	Foundered 15 April 1814
General characteristics
Tons burthen:	424, 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]

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

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 / 61.5°N 59°W / 61.5; -59. 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

References

• 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. 
• 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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