Royalist (1794 ship)

For other ships with the same name, see Royalist (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.

## Contents

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

## Career

Royalist first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1795 with Robert Finley, master, H.Rudd, owner, and trade London–Hamburg.[1]

Year  | Master  | Owner  | Trade  | Source

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1800  | J.Wray  | Schoffield  | Hull–Petersburg  | LR
1805  | F.Walton  | Schoffield  | Cork  | LR; damages repaired 1801
1810  | Walton  | Schofield  | Hull–Baltic  | Register of Shipping
1812  | J.Atkin
Edmonds  | Heseltine  | Hull–Quebec  | LR; rebuilt 1810
1813  | A.Edmonds  | Gibson & Co.  | Hull–Davis Strait  | LR; rebuilt 1810 & damages repaired 1812

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

Year  | Master  | Where  | Whales  | Tuns whale oil

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1812  | Edmonds  |  | 6  | 93
1813  | Edmonds  | Davis Strait  | 0  | 0
1814  | Edmonds  | Greenland  | 0  | 0

## 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

1. ↑ LR (1795), Seq.№R247.
2. ↑ Coltish (c. 1842).
3. ↑ LL 16 August 1814.
4. ↑ Harrison (1952), p. 189.
5. ↑ Macaulay (1879), pp. 38–39.

## 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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