British merchantman and whaler 1818–1866
Jane was launched at Kingston upon Hull in 1813 as a West Indiaman. Between 1818 and 1836 she was a whaler in the northern whale fishery. She then became a merchantman and was wrecked in 1866.
West Indiaman.
"Jane" entered "Lloyd's Register" ("LR") in 1813 with John Mazon, master, Raines &amp; Co., owners, and trade Hull–Saint Croix. As a West Indiaman she was armed with 10 cannons, though her owners reduced her armament after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. (Once she became a whaler she did not need any armament as she no longer had to fear privateers and pirates in the Caribbean.)
Northern Fisheries whaler.
From 1818 on, "Jane" became a whaler in the Northern Whale Fisheries, first at Greenland and then at the Davis Strait. In 1818 her captain was Sadler; in 1817 he had been captain of , whaling at Greenland.
The following data is from Coltish:
On 8 April 1828 "Lloyd's List" reported that "Jane", Maddison, master, had put into Stromness leaky. Three days later it reported that she had been surveyed and had resumed her voyage.
On 30 September 1835, "Jane", "Middleton", and "Viewforth" were beset by ice in Davis Strait while in close proximity. On 15 November, "Middleton" was crushed and sank. "Jane" and "Viewforth" split "Middleton"'s crew. In January 1835, "Jane", Tather, master, got free of the ice at .
Merchantman.
After having returned from the Davis Strait in 1836, without having killed a single whale (i.e., "Clean"), with whaling in the previous two years having been almost as poor, and after her overwintering in Davis Strait, her owners shifted her to the merchant trade.
In 1842 Captain W. Tather sailed "Jane" to Greenland again, but the voyage was not very successful. She killed one whale and 861 seals.
Fate.
"LR" for 1867 had unchanged information from that for 1865, except that it carried the annotation "[wr]ecked".
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