History
United Kingdom
NameAndrew Marvel
NamesakeAndrew Marvell
BuilderThomas Richardson, Hull[1][2]
Launched1812
FateFoundered September 1843
General characteristics
Tons burthen377,[3][4] or 379[5](bm)
Complement41 (1821)
Armament8 × 9-pounder carronades[3][4]

Andrew Marvel (or Andrew Marvell) was launched at Hull in 1812. From 1812 to 1835 she was a Greenland whaler, hunting bowhead whales in the northern whale fishery. Thereafter she became a merchantman. She foundered in September 1843 while on a voyage from Hull to Saint John, New Brunswick.

Greenland whaler

Thomas Richardson built Andrew Marvel on the lines of the whaler Isabella that he had built in 1786.[2]

Andrew Marvell first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1812 with T. Orton, master, Marshall, owner, and trade Hull–Davis Strait.[3]

The following data are primarily from Coltish:[6]

Year Master Where Whales Tuns whale oil Notes
1812 Orton 14 150
1813 Orton Davis Strait 3 41
1814 Orton Greenland 11 164
1815 Orton Davis Strait 5 76
1816 Orton Davis Strait 17 241 (600 butts[7])
1817 Orton Davis Strait 4 59
1818 Orton Davis Strait 5 73
1819 Orton Davis Strait 14 182 Orton was whaling in the vicinity of South-East Bay, the southern end of Disko Bay. The weather was much severer than in 1818.[8]

In 1819, a record 65 whalers sailed from Hull. Andrew Marvel sold for £7,800, complete, but net of outfitting for the coming season.[9] She was the first whaler to return; she had left the ice on 8 July and arrived back at Hull on 12 August.[10]

Year Master Where Whales Tuns whale oil Notes
1820 Orton Davis Strait 10 129
1821 Orton Greenland 18 216 12 tons of whale bone[11]
1822 Orton Davis Strait 4 46
1823 Orton Davis Strait 27 230 271½ cwt of [12]
1824 Blythe Davis Strait 10 150
1825 Hedon Davis Strait 11 120
1826 Silcock Davis Strait 9 134 On 1 July 1826 Cicero was wrecked in the Davis Strait. Andrew Marvel rescued her crew.[13] The crew were later distributed among the other vessels in the fleet.[14]
1827 Silcock Davis Strait 16 189
1828 Silcock Davis Strait 10 117
1829 Orton Davis Strait 8 104
1830 Orton Davis Strait 0 0
1831 Wright Davis Strait 4 55
1832 Wright Davis Strait 31 280
1833 Wright Davis Strait 36 285 This was the greatest amount brought in by any Hull whaler between 1772 and 1852.[15]
1834 Wright Davis Strait 13 130
1835 Wright Davis Strait 2
1836 Wright Davis Strait 0 0

Merchantman

LR for 1836 showed Andrew Marvel with M. Wright, master, Hopwood, owner, and trade Hull–Davis Strait, changing to Hull–America. She had had a thorough repair in 1836.[5]

Year Master Owner Trade Source & notes
1840 Chambers Hopwood Hull–Quebec LR; large repair 1826
1843 Chambers Hopwood Hull–Quebec LR; large repair 1826

Fate

On 25 September 1843 Andrew Marvel was in a sinking state at 42°N 57°W / 42°N 57°W / 42; -57 when Lotus came on the scene and rescued the crew. Andrew Marvel had been sailing from Hull to Saint John.[16] LR for 1844 carried the annotation "Lost" by her name.[17]

Citations

  1. ↑ Lloyd's Register Foundation: Report of survey for Andrew Marvel, 10 December 1834 – accessed 21 May 2019.
  2. 1 2 MacGregor (1984), p. 26.
  3. 1 2 3 LR (1812), Supple. pages "A", Seq.№A47.
  4. 1 2 Lubbock (1937), p. 190.
  5. 1 2 LR (1836), Seq.№613.
  6. ↑ Coltish (c. 1842).
  7. ↑ Lubbock (1937), p. 203.
  8. ↑ "Davis's Straits." Times, 3 Nov. 1819, p. 3. The Times Digital Archive. Accessed 22 May 2019.
  9. ↑ Lubbock (1937), p. 210.
  10. ↑ Lubbock (1937), p. 211.
  11. ↑ Lubbock (1937), p. 228.
  12. ↑ Lubbock (1937), p. 255.
  13. ↑ Lloyd's List №6152.
  14. ↑ Lubbock (1937), p. 262.
  15. ↑ Munroe (1854), p. 38.
  16. ↑ "Ship News." Times, 31 Oct. 1843, p. 7. The Times Digital Archive. Accessed 21 May 2019.
  17. ↑ LR (1844), Seq.№A551.

References

  • Coltish, William (c. 1842). An account of the success of the ships at the Greenland and Davis Straits fisheries 1772-1842 inclusive.
  • Lubbock, Basil (1937). Arctic Whalers. Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson.
  • MacGregor, David R. (1984). Merchant sailing ships, 1815-1850: Supremacy of sail. Conway Marine. ISBN 9780870219412.
  • Munroe, Henry (1854). "Statistics of the Northern Whale Fisheries, from the Year 1772 to 1852". Journal of the Statistical Society of London. 17 (1): 34–42. doi:10.2307/2338354. JSTOR 2338354.
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