Английская Википедия:Ganges (1798 ship)
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Шаблон:Infobox ship imageШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship characteristicsGanges was a ship launched in 1798 at Philadelphia, probably for French owners. During the Peace of Amiens her registration and homeport became Dunkirk. Her (possibly new) French owners sent her to engage in whaling at Delagoa Bay, where the British letter of marque whaler Шаблон:HMS captured her in 1803. She then made one whaling voyage to Isle of Desolation before a French squadron captured her in 1806 during a second whaling voyage. Accounts differ as to whether her captors sank her, or released her and she continued to operate as a merchant vessel until 1814.
Career
Ganges was launched at Philadelphia, possibly for the Rotch brothers. After the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars, a number of French whaling companies transferred their operations to the United States, operating out of New Bedford and Nantucket under American colours and with American masters and crews, frequently Nantucket whalers.Шаблон:Sfnp During the Peace of Amiens (1802–1803), some French owners returned their vessels to French registration, and resumed whaling from France.Шаблон:Sfnp
Gange was commissioned at Dunkirk circa September 1803 by Louis De Baecque. She departed in late September with Charles Harris (or Harrax), master, for the whaling grounds at Delagoa Bay.Шаблон:Sfnp[1]
There she encountered Scorpion, which captured Gange and a second French whaler, Шаблон:Ship, in late 1803.Шаблон:EfnШаблон:Efn Scorpion then escorted both into St Helena.[2] From there they sailed to Britain, where they arrived in April 1804 and were sold. Their new owners then fitted them out for whaling and armed them.
GangesШаблон:'s new owners were James Milman (mast maker), and James Herbert (cooper),[3] or Milner & Co.[4] She sailed from Britain on 4 August 1804 with master C.W. Hodan,[4] or Bacon or Main,[3] for the Isle of Desolation. She was reported to have been there on 25 February 1805.[3] Reportedly she engaged in sealing and the hunt for "sea elephants".Шаблон:Sfnp She was then reported at St Helena on 16 August 1805. She returned to Britain on 12 September 1805.[3]
Loss
Ganges, Obed Folger,[3][4]Шаблон:Sfnp master, and the same owners as on her previous voyage, left on a whaling voyage shortly after returning from her first voyage.[3]Шаблон:Sfnp While outward bound, she encountered "a flotilla from Rochefort".[5]Шаблон:Sfnp
The flotilla captured her on 19 December 1805,Шаблон:Sfnp or 11 March 1806.[3]Шаблон:Sfnp The French either sank Ganges,[3] or released her, and she continued to operate as a merchant vessel until 1814.Шаблон:Sfnp Lloyd's Register for 1807 notes that she was captured.[6] If she returned to service, she did not appear in Lloyd's Register for 1808 or 1809.
Fortuitously, the Rochefort squadron had captured a West Indiaman named Шаблон:Ship prior to November 1805. This coincidence may be part of the reason for confusion but the fate of the Ganges of this article.
Notes
Citations
References
- ↑ French Whaling Voyages: Ganges (FV0363).
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 3,3 3,4 3,5 3,6 3,7 British Southern Whale Fishery Database – voyages: Ganges.
- ↑ 4,0 4,1 4,2 Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег
<ref>; для сносокLR1804не указан текст - ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite journal
