St Hilda |
1875 |
Woolston |
1908- 1911: Co1y |
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1908: 238 walrus, 1938 seals, 20.5 tons oil; 1909: 1 whale, 240 walrus; 1910: 390 walrus, 24 tons oil; 1911: 1 whale, 10 cwt bone, 26 white whales, 50 seals, 20 bears |
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Star |
1855 |
Dundee |
1883: McLennan; 1884-85: Salmond |
1883 to 1886 |
1883: 40 bottlenosed whales, 41 tons oil; 1885: 900 seals, 55 tons seal oil, 27 bottlenose whales |
Vessel abandoned after striking a reef in the Cumberland Gulf on 2 Sept 1886. |
Success |
Before 1763 |
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1788-91: James Lundie; 1790: possibly James Sinclair |
14 Sep 1763 to 09 Dec 1794 |
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Tay |
Before 1788 |
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1789-91, 1794-98: Rob Webster |
From 1786 |
1791: 11 whales; 1798: 1 whale |
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Tay |
c1850 |
Dundee |
1858: George Deuchars; 1859: Capt Deuchars; 1859-60: Sturrock; 1861: Nicoll; 1864: Sturrock in 1864; 1865-67: Birnie; 1868-69: Spence; 1872-73: Greig; 1874: Loffley |
1858 to 1874 |
1858: 6 whales, 170 tons oil, 7 tons bone; 1859: 15 whales, 155 tons oil, no seals; 1860: 5 whales, 70 tons oil; 1861: 14 whales, 84 tons oil; 1864: 6 whales, 80 tons oil; 1865: 7 whales, 40 tons oil, 14,000 seals, 150 tons seal oil; 1866: 1 whale, 9 tons oil, 17000 seals, 210 tons oil; 1867: clean of whales, 8000 seals, 90 tons oil; 1868: 6 whales, 94 tons oil, 5.5 tons bone, 2068 seals; 1869: 8000 seals, 8 tons seal oil; 1870: 5719 seals, 100 tons seal oil; 1871: 5000 seals; 1872: 7 whales, 80 tons whale oil; 3442 seals, 35 tons seal oil; 1873: 3 whales, 32 tons oil, 1.5 tons bone, 6 seals; 1874: lost |
Register closed and certificate cancelled 11 September 1874, after the vessel having been lost on the 16 June while crossing Melville Bay on the way to the Davis Strait whale fishing. |
Tay |
1812 |
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1814, 1816-19: William Adamson |
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1813: clean; 1816: 11 whales; 1818: 2 whales |
Crushed in ice, 16 July 1819. |
Terra Nova |
1884-85 |
Alexander Stephen & Sons, Dundee |
1885-88: Captain Alexander Fairweather; 1889 -1893: Charles Daw; 1983: Captain Archer; 1894- 1897: Harry McKay; 1898-1903: Captain A Jackman; 1904: Captain H McKay; 1906-08: Captain A Kean [of Newfoundland]; 1909: Captain Edward Bishop [of Newfoundland]; 1910: Captain R Scott[?]; 1914-15: Captain W Bartlett; 1916: Captain S Windsor; 1917: Captain Kennedy; 1918: Captain N Kennedy; 1919-23: Captain A Kean |
1884 to 1898 |
1885: Newfoundland, 21741 plus 103 seals, 195 tons oil; Davis Strait, 8 whales, 62 tons oil and 3 tons whalebone; 1886: Newfoundland, 4,899 plus 5255 seals, 126 tons oil, Davis Straits, 3 whales, 630 white whales, 30 walrus, 900 tons oil and 1.5 tons whalebone; 1887: Newfoundland, 21725 and 4409 seals, 297 tons oil, Davis Strait, 1 whale, 580 white whales, 110 tons oil and half ton bone; 1888: Newfoundland, 11895 seals, 140 tons of oil, Davis Strait, 2 whales, 36 tons oil and 1 ton whalebone; 1889: Newfoundland, 25734 seals, 256 tons oil; 1890: Newfoundland, 18075 seals, 180 tons oil; 1891, Newfoundland, 35239 seals, 370 tons oil; 1892, Newfoundland, 12369 seals, 128 tons oil; Davis Strait, 1 whale, 221 white whales; 1893: Newfoundland, 7458 seals, 120 tons oil; 1894: Newfoundland, 7232 seals, 70 tons oil, Davis Strait, 5 whales, 3 white whales and 5 walrus, 71 tons oil and 3.5 tons whalebone; 1895: Newfoundland, 29145 and 4741 seals, 307 tons oil, Davis Strait, 3 white whales, 7 walrus, 17.5 tons oil; 1896: Newfoundland, 5339 seals, 69 tons oil, Greenland: 1 whale, 12 cwt of whalebone; 1897: Newfoundland, 3501 seals, 49.25 tons oil; 1898: Newfoundland, 10341 seals; 1899: Newfoundland, 21623 seals; 1900: Newfoundland, 32953 seals; 1901: Newfoundland, 19073 seals; 1902: Newfoundland, 22811 seals; 1903: Newfoundland, 20954 seals; 1906: Newfoundland, 16627 seals; 1907: Newfoundland, 18785 seals; 1908: Newfoundland, 13962 seals; 1909: Newfoundland, 15468 seals; 1914: Newfoundland, 24536 seals; 1915: Newfoundland, 2851 seals; 1916: Newfoundland, 26853 seals; 1917: Newfoundland, 23313 seals; 1918: Newfoundland, 20297 seals; 1919: Newfoundland, 12568 seals; 1920: Newfoundland, 3660 seals; 1921: Newfoundland, 10754 seals; 1922: Newfoundland, 23157 seals; 1923: Newfoundland, 14241 seals |
Sunk by enemy action off the coast of Newfoundland in 1943. |
Thetis |
1881 |
Alexander Stephen & Sons, Dundee |
1881: Captain Brown; 1882: Captain J Fairweather; 1883: Captain A Fairweather; 1884: Captain A Fairweather |
From 1881 |
1881: Newfoundland, first seal fishing between 5000 and 6000 seals, second fishing about 2,500 seals, Greenland, 300 seals, 12 bottlenose whales; 1882: Newfoundland 10500 seals Greenland, 3300 seals, 8 bottlenose whales, estimated 95 tons oil; 1883: Newfoundland, 25000 seals, 5 whales, 700 porpoises, 2 bears |
Register closed and certificate cancelled 26 February 1884, vessel sold to US owners . |
Thomas |
1809 |
Yorkshire |
1823-34: George Thoms; 1834: Alexander Cook; 1835: John Stevenson; 1836-37: David Davidson |
From at least 1823 |
1823: 37 whales, 240 tons; 1824: 9 whales; 1825: 6 whales; 1826: 8 whales; 1827: 15 whales, 240 tons; 1828: 19 whales; 1829: 13 whales, 140 tons oil; 1830: 3 whales; 1831: 12 whales, 130 tuns oil; 1832: 23 whales, 240 tuns oil, 15 tons bone; 1833: 28 whales, 273 tons oil |
Vessel lost in Davis Strait 13 December 1836, register cancelled 23 June 1837. |
Thomas |
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1911: Thomas |
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1911: 5 white whales, 30 walrus, 2500 seals, 10 bears, 27 tons oil |
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