Holderness (1789 ship)

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General characteristics
Tons burthen:|  353,[1] or 353​73⁄94,[2] or 361[3] (bm)
Length:|  105 ft 5 in (32.1 m) (overall); 84 ft 4 in (25.7 m) (keel)[1]
Beam:|  28 ft 1 in (8.6 m)[1]
Depth of hold:|  13 ft 8 in (4.2 m)[1]
Propulsion:|  Sail
Complement:|  30[3]
Armament:|  8 × 12&4-pounder guns[3]

Holderness was launched in 1789 at Selby, Yorkshire. She made one voyage for the British East India Company (EIC) in 1794–95. She then became a West Indiaman until 1801 when a new owner used her as a Greenland whaler. In 1806 two French warships captured and burnt her.

## Contents

* 1 Career
* 2 Fate
* 3 Citations
* 4 References

## Career

Lloyd's Register for 1790 lists Holderness with W. Wray, master, P. Green, owner, and trade Hull—St Petersburg.[4]

On 14 September 1792 Lloyd's List reported that Holderness, Wray, master, had run onshore on the Holm Sand while sailing from New York to Hull. She was gotten off with little damage.[5]

EIC voyage (1794-1795): The EIC had Hill repair and measure Holderness prior to chartering her for one voyage to India. Captain George Wright acquired a letter of marque on 14 May 1794. He then sailed from the Downs on 11 June, bound for Bengal. Holderness arrived at Calcutta on 23 November. She left Bengal on 18 February 1795, was at Madras on 3 March, and reached Saint Helena on 24 May. She reached Shannon and arrived at the Downs on 15 October.[1]

Greenland whaler

Year  | Master  | Owner  | Trade  | Tuns whale oil[6]

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1797  | G.Wright
G.Brown  | Green & Co.
W.Hellen  | London–Bengal
London–Grenada  |
1798  | Brown
J. Cummings  | Lushington
Bruce & Co.  | London–Grenada  |
1801  | A.Dixon  | Bruce & Co.  | London–Grenada  |
1802  | A.Dixon
J.Page  | Bruce & Co.
Dobkin & Co.  | London–Grenada
Hull–Greenland  | 135
1803  | J.Page  | Dobkin & Co.  | Hull–Greenland  | 35

On 4 March 1803 Lloyd's List (LL) reported that Holderness and  missing name had been on their way to Davis Strait when they had had to put back to Hull having lost anchors and cables, and having sustained other damage.[7]

Year  | Master  | Owner  | Trade  | Tuns whale oil[6]

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1804  | J.Page  | Dobkin & Co.  | Hull–Davis Strait  | 140
1805  | J.Page  | Dobkin & Co.  | Hull–Davis Strait  | 182
1806  | J.Page
W. Swan  | Dobkin & Co.  | Hull–Davis Strait  | 0

## Fate

On 2 August 1806 the French Navy frigates  missing name, Capitaine de frégate Le Duc, and  missing name, Capitaine de frégate Lambert, captured Holderness, Swan, master, and  missing name, Welburn, master, both of and for Hull, off Greenland.[8] The French burnt their captures.[9]

## Citations

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 British Library: Holderness.
2. ↑ Hackman (2001), pp. 128–9.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Letter of Marque, p.68 - accessed 25 July 2017.". http://www.1812privateers.org/Great Britain/marque1793-1815.pdf.
4. ↑ Lloyd's List (1790), Seq. №H249.
5. ↑ Lloyd's List №2436.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Coltish (1842).
7. ↑ LL №4330.
8. ↑ "Lloyd's Marine List – Oct. 24.". Caledonian Mercury (13232). 27 October 1806.
9. ↑ Lloyd's List №4093.

## References

* Coltish, William (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.
* Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-96-7.

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