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The
Fleet of
Peterhead whalers: 1788 to1883
Data
from:
Peterhead
and the Arctic Whale Fishery by Dr. Alexander Milne. In The Book
of Buchan, Jubilee Edition, 1943.
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First
Voyage from Peterhead
|
Ship's
Name
|
Tons
|
Best
known Master
|
Notes
|
| 1788 |
Robert |
169 |
Alexander
Geary |
Brig,
sold 1801 |
| 1802 |
Hope
(I) |
240 |
Alexander
Geary |
Wrecked
1830 |
| 1804 |
Enterprise |
290 |
William
Volum |
Wrecked
Davis Strait, 1828 |
| 1810 |
Active
(I) |
341 |
John
Suttar |
Wrecked
1828 |
| 1811 |
Perseverance |
|
David
Gray I |
Wrecked
Greenland Sea, 1840 |
| 1813 |
Resolution |
400 |
John
Suttar |
Wrecked
1830 |
| 1813 |
Union |
|
William
Hutchison |
Abandoned
1854 |
| 1814 |
Dexterity |
321 |
George
Sangster |
Wrecked
Davis Strait, 1826 |
| 1815 |
Superior |
400 |
D.
Manson |
Wrecked
1849 |
| 1817
|
Alert
|
|
William
Penny Snr. |
|
| 1817 |
Gleaner |
|
J.
Shand |
|
| 1818 |
Alpheus |
|
A.
Duncan |
Wrecked
1828 |
| 1818 |
Jean |
235 |
R.
Bruce |
Wrecked
1826 |
| 1819 |
Hannibal
|
|
W.
Robertson |
Wrecked,
Norway, 1848 |
| 1819 |
Invincible |
306
|
James
Hogg |
Wrecked
Davis Strait, 1822 |
| 1820 |
Eclipse
(I) |
|
John
Gray Snr. |
Wrecked
Davis Strait, 1858 |
| 1820 |
Mary |
|
A.
Thom |
|
| 1821 |
Traveller |
|
George
Simpson |
Wrecked
1858 |
| 1828
|
Commerce |
|
A.
Stewart |
Wrecked
1861 |
| 1829 |
James |
346 |
James
Hogg |
Wrecked
Davis Strait, 1831 |
| 1832 |
Joseph
Green |
|
J.
Volum |
Wrecked
1852 |
| 1838 |
Ranger |
180 |
A.
Ogston |
Wrecked
1843 |
| 1842 |
Jane |
|
R.
Robertson |
|
| 1845 |
Enterprise
(2) |
|
R.
Martin |
|
| 1846 |
Hamilton
Ross |
|
P.
Burnett |
|
| 1846 |
Dublin |
|
W.
Mackie |
Lost
by fire, Davis Strait 18 |
| 1846 |
North
of Scotland |
|
D.
Gray III |
|
| 1848 |
Victor |
278 |
R.
Martin II |
Barque
|
| 1851
|
Fairy |
|
R.
Robertson |
|
| 1851 |
Columbia |
|
R.
Birnie |
|
| 1851 |
Mazinthien |
|
P.
Burnett |
Canadian
Merchantmen
Sold to Dundee, lost PD Bay, 1883 |
| 1851
|
Pomona |
|
J.
Robertson |
|
| 1852 |
Intrepid |
326 |
Robert
Martin I |
|
| 1852 |
Xanthus |
|
John
Reid |
Sealer |
| 1852 |
Agostina |
|
George
Sellar |
|
| 1852 |
Gem |
|
John
Sellar |
|
| 1852 |
M.
A. Henderson |
|
David
Ewen |
|
| 1852 |
Spitzbergen |
|
David
Cowan |
Wrecked
Maiden Voyage
Greenland Sea |
| 1852 |
Queen |
|
John
Gray II |
|
| 1853 |
Ranger
(2) |
|
William
Cardno |
|
| 1853 |
Kate |
239 |
J.
Scott |
Barque
Albert H. Watson |
| 1853 |
Eliza |
|
George
Abernethy |
|
| 1853 |
Brilliant |
|
Joseph
Joss |
|
| 1853 |
Active
(2) |
380 |
David
Gray III |
Engined
1871, Sold to Dundee |
| 1854 |
Undaunted |
|
A.
Walker |
Wrecked
1857 |
| 1854 |
Gipsy |
|
Freeman
Henry |
Wrecked
1857 |
| 1855 |
Clara |
|
John
Suttar II |
|
| 1856 |
Arctic |
203 |
J.
Reid |
|
| 1856 |
Sir
Colin Campbell |
381
|
Robert
Birnie |
|
| 1856 |
Elena |
|
William
Sellar |
|
| 1857 |
Polar
Star |
216 |
David
Ewan |
Sold
to Dundee |
| 1857 |
Innuit |
|
John
Suttar II |
ss,
iron hull, wrecked 1859 |
| 1859 |
Empress
of India |
|
Robert
Martin II |
ss, iron hull
Wrecked Maiden Voyage |
| 1860 |
Jan
Mayen |
337 |
Thomas
Mackie |
Sold
to Dundee, sank 1884 |
| 1860 |
Windward |
356 |
David
Ewan |
Last
whaler from Peterhead, 1993, (Under D. Gray Junior) |
| 1867 |
Eclipse
(2) |
555 |
David
Gray III |
Auxiliary, sold to Dundee |
| 1873
|
Hope
(2) |
575 |
John
Gray II |
Auxiliary |
| 1883 |
Erik |
583 |
Alexander
Gay |
Auxiliary,
sold to Hudson Bay Co.
Sunk by U Boat, WWI |
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