Fortune (1799 ship)

Short description: Dutch vessel

For other ships with the same name, see Fortune#Ships.

History
United Kingdom
Name| Fortune
Launched| Holland
Acquired| 1799 by purchase of a prize
Fate| Lost 1803
General characteristics
Tons burthen:|  296,[1] or 337,[2] or 397[3] (bm)

Fortune was a Dutch vessel, taken in prize c.1799. She became a merchantman that sailed between Liverpool and Denmark–Norway, or Bremen. She made one voyage as a whaler to Greenland, and was lost in 1803.

## Career

Fortune first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1799.[1]

Year  | Master  | Owner  | Trade  | Source

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1796  | W.Garner  | J.Garbers  | Liverpool–Bremen  | LR
1801  | W.Garner
Snowdon  | J.Garbers
Humble  | Liverpool–Bremen
Liverpool–Elsinore  | LR; damages repaired 1801
1802  | R.Snowdon  | S.Humble
S.Holland  | Liverpool–Elsinore  | LR; damages repaired 1801
1803  | R.Snowdon
William Jameson  | S.Holland  | Liverpool–Narva  | LR; damages repaired 1801
1804  | W.Jameson  | S.Holland  | Liverpool–Greenland  | LR; damages repaired 1801

Fortune caught one whale in the Greenland whale fishery in 1803.

Year  | Master  | Owner  | Trade  | Source

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1804  | Lightly  | Humble  | Liverpool–Davis Strait  | RS; new deck and damages repaired 1802

## Fate

Fortune, Leightly, of Liverpool, was reported in November 1803 to have been lost near Narva.[4] Her entry in the 1804 issue of the Register of Shipping carried the annotation "Lost".[5]

## Citations

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 ''LR (1799), Seq.No.F479.
2. ↑ LR (1801), Seq.No.F330.
3. ↑ LR (1802), Seq.No.F411.
4. ↑ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (4405). 25 November 1803. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015005721504?urlappend=;seq=189. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
5. ↑ RS (1804), Seq.NO.F413.

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