Whaling Vessels

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Ship Year Of Build Place Of Build List Of Masters In Dundee Fleet Catches Lost/Sold
Fogota 1910 Dundee Shipbuilders Company
Friendship Before 1803 Hamburg 1810, 1812, 1814-25: James Ireland; 1825-1831: James Chapman; 1831-37: [David?] Davidson; 1837-38: Sturrock; 1839-40 From at least 1810 1810: 8 whales; 1811: 8 whales; 1812: 13 whales, 165 butts oil; 1813:1 whale; 1816: 11 whales, 1818: 6 whales; 1820: 12 whales, 180 tuns oil; 1821: 18 whales; 1822: 10 whales, 136 tons oil; 1826: 7 whales; 1827: 8 whales, 120 tuns oil; 1828: 10 fish; 1829: 5 fish; 1830: 1 fish, 4 tuns oil; 1831: 5 whales; 1832: 25 whales, 180 tuns oil, 12 tons bone; 1833: 29 whales, 197 tons oil; 1834: 2 whales, 20 tuns oil; 1837: 1 whale, 31 casks oil; 1838: 18 whales, 140 tuns oil; 1839: 3 whales, 53 casks oil Sold to Newcastle in 1840.
Gold Ranger 1941 Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Dundee
Grantully Before 1761 British 1761-62: Captain William Cheyne; 1780: Captain Robert Mawer From at least 1757
Greda 1903: 2 black whales, 12 walrus, 3044 seals, 33 tons oil, 22 cwt bone, 4 white whales
Harald Haarfagre 1875-77: Brown 1875: 60 tons whale oil, 3 tons bone, 10800 seals, 110 tons seal oil; 1876: 7 whales, 60 tons whale oil, 2 tons whalebone, 8000 seals, 65 tons seal oil; 1877: 1 whale, 17 tons whale oil, 4500 seals; 1878: 3920 seals, 50 tons seal oil; 1884: 384 seals, 11 bottlenose whales, 70 tons oil
Hector 1870 Alexander Stephen & Sons, Dundee Abandoned and set on fire in ice off Newfoundland, March 27 1922; crew of 140 rescued by Dundee built SS Sagona.
Heroine 1831 John Calman, Dundee 1831: Lamb; 1832: John Noval Smart; 1832-37: John Welch; 1853-54: Sturrock; 1855-57 George Deuchars 1831 to 1837 and 1853 to 1858 (with a gap while under Aberdeen ownership) 1833: 36 whales, 240 tons oil; 1834: 11 whales, 130 tuns oil; 1837: 1 whale, 22 casks oil; 1853: 11 whales, 112 tons oil; 1853: 11 whales, 112 tons oil; 1854: 1 whale; 1855: clean; 1856: 19 whales, 185 tons oil; 1857: 1.5 whales, 25 tons oil, 10 cwt bone; 1858: lost Lost at Davis Straits, 14 July 1858. She was in the same ice dock as Eclipse of Peterhead and the ships were crushed together when the iceberg in which the dock was cut disintegrated. The crew of Heroine saved some of their possesions but the crew of Eclipse did not. A Danish vessel brought the crews back to Lerwick.
Horn 1783 Sunderland 1806-12, 1815-20: William Valentine; 1821-29: William Jeffers; 1830-34: Captain John [?] Stevenson; 1835: David Ramsay; 1835-1838 Captain Thomas; 1843-52 Captain D Sturrock snr From circa 1806 to 1852, when wrecked 1806: 10 whales, 120 casks oil; 1807: 9 whales; 1808: 9 whales, 150 butts oil, full; 1810: 12.5 whales; 1811: 8 whales; 1812: 16 whales, 200 butts oil, 1813: 2 whales; 1814: 5 whales, 75 tons oil; 1815, 5 whales; 1816: 13 whales; 1818: 7 whales; 102 tons oil; 1819: 5 whales, 58 tons oil; 1820: 17 whales, 236 tons oil and 14 tons whalebone; 1821: 13 whales, 150 tons oil and 8 tons whalebone; 1822: 1 whale, 36 tons oil, 0.75 tons whalebone; 1823: 33 whales, 238 tons oil and 14 tons whalebone; 1824: 8 whales, 90 tons oil and 5 tons whalebone; 1825: 3 whales, 44 tons oil; 1826: 8 whales, 70 tons oil; 1827: 18 whales, 171 tons oil; 1828: 14 whales, 190 tons oil and 10 tons whalebone; 1829: 4 whales, 45 tons oil and 2 tons whalebone; 1830: 1 whale, 12 tons oil; 1831: 6 whales, 86 tons oil and 4 tons whalebone; 1832: 25 whales, 226 tons oil and 11 tons whalebone; 1833: 13 whales, 129 tons oil and 6.5 tons whalebone; 1834: 9 whales, 85 tons oil and 4 tons whalebone; 1835: 4 whales, 34 tons oil and 1 ton whalebone; 1836: clean; 1837: 4 whales, 40 tons oil; 1838: 14 whales, 71 tons oil and 5 tons whalebone; 1839: 3 whales, 36 tons oil and 3 tons whalebone; 1843: 8 whales, 94 tons oil and 5 tons whalebone; 1844: 7 whales, 78 tons oil and 5 tons whalebone; 1845: 33 whales, 225 tons oil and 14 tons whalebone; 1846: 9 whales, 110 tuns oil; 1847: 7 whales, 65 tuns oil; 1848: 4 whales, 50 tuns oil; 1849: 19 whales, 170 tuns oil; 1850: 7 whales, 86 tons oil; 1851: 10 whales, 185 casks oil Ran aground off Kingbarns, Fife in 1852, no lives lost.
Iceland 1871 Dundee Iceland was abandoned on the Grand Banks on 30 March 1910; her rudder broke on the sealing grounds and she drifted out to sea. She met another sealer who took off her crew of 132.