Whaling Vessels

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Ship Year Of Build Place Of Build List Of Masters In Dundee Fleet Catches Lost/Sold
Retriever 1865 Alexander Stephen & Sons, Dundee
River Tay 1868 John Key, Kirkcaldy and Kinghorn 1868: Birnie 1868: 2800 seals, 30 tons oil Lost in ice on her first voyage in 1868.
Rodney 1766 1790-91; 1793, 1800-01: Cornelius Frogget; 1806, 1808-09: James Ireland; 1810: Captain Finlay From the 1780s and 1790s to 1810 1798: 2 whales; 1799: 3 whales, 129 butts oil; 1800: 9 whales, 150 butts oil, 2 tons of whale fins, 79.5 tons blubber, 52 tons 10 gallons of oil produced; 1801: 8 whales, 28 cwt whale fins, 127 casks oil, 45 tuns; 1804: 11 whales; 1806: 2 whales, 326 seals, 4 unicorns [narwhals]; 1807, 5 whales (caught in the Greenland Sea); 1808: 12 whales, full Lost 21 May 1810, but all the crew were saved.
Sagona 1912 Dundee Shipbuilders Company
Scotia 1872 Johansen & Holman, or possibly Jorgensen & Knudsen, Drammen, Norway 1905- 1914: Captain T Robertson; 1914/15: sold to Hudson Bay Coy; master unknown 1904 to 1914 1905: Baffin Bay, 1 whale, 17 seals, 13 bears, 2 walrus, 14 tons oil and 0.75 tons whalebone; 1906: Greenland and Davis Strait, 4 whales, 2 walrus, 8 seals and 16 bears, 40 tons oil and 2 tons whalebone; 1907: Greenland, 2 whales; Davis Strait, 19 walrus, 10 seal, 27 bears, 32.5 tons oil and 1.5 tons whalebone; 1908: Greenland, 6 whales, 131 seals, 13 bears, 53 tons oil and 2.75 tons whalebone; 1909: Greenland, 8 whales, 4 seals, 10 bears, 69 tons oil and 3.75 tons whalebone; 1910: Greenland and Davis Strait, 3 whales, 360 white whales, 17 seals, 3 bears, 60 tons oil and 1.1 tons whalebone; 1911: Greenland, 1 whale, 11 seals, 7 bear, 12 tons oil and 0.75 tons whalebone Caught fire in Bristol Channel and burned to waterline while under Hudson Bay ownership, chartered to French government and used as supply ship.
Scotia 1894 Gourlay Brothers & Co (Dundee) Ltd
Seduisante 1878 Hecquet, Dunkirk, France 1910: Brown 1910 to 24 Sept 1911 1910: 433 walrus, 630 seals Vessel a total loss with all hands on 24 September 1911, wrecked at Nottingham Island, Hudson Bay, owner lost with the ship, register cancelled 8 November 1912.
Snowdrop 1886 1905: Captain Ogston; 1906: Captain Walter J Jackson; 1907: Captain Brown 1905: 1 black whale, 2 walrus, 17 bears; 15 tons oil, 18 cwt whalebone; 1907: 184 walrus, 190 seals, 23 bears, 50 foxes, 10.5 tons oil
Sophia 1850 Thomas Adamson
Spitzbergen 1876: Adam