HMS KANGAROO, c.1811. A sloop of 18 guns, built by Brindley at Lynn 12.9.1805. Sold out of service 14.12. 1815.
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Built as a sloop of war by Josiah & Thomas Brindley, King’s Lynn for the Royal Navy.
27 November 1802 ordered.
August 1803 keel laid down
12 September 1805 launched as the HMS KANGAROO, one of the Merlin class.
Tonnage 369 ton (bm), dim. 106 x 28.2 x 13.9ft., length of keel 87.6ft.
Armament; Upper deck 16 – 32 pdrs.
Crew 121.
25 September 1805 completed and 25 September 1806 fitting out was completed in Chatham on 22 February 1806.
January 1806 commissioned under command of Commander Henry Laroche after completed in service in the North Sea till 1811.
1807 Was she under command of Commander John Baker and took the privateer L’EGAYANT on the Down station on 20 November 1808
May 1811 she made a round voyage to Jamaica, arriving back at Portsmouth on 21 September. In November 1811 she escorted some vessels from Portsmouth to Goree, West Africa.
Then she was involved in the suppression of the slave trade, and under command of Captain John Lloyd she used Freetown as her base. IN February 1812 was she at St Thomas (Sao Tome) and it may have been from there the ship went to Ascension to look for slaving vessels.
From April 7th to May she made non-stop passages from Whydah (near Lagos) to Freetown. In late October or early November 1812 she entered the River Gambia when Capt., Lloyd threatened to burn the township of Bintang if the American slaving schooner HOPE was not surrender up to him. The local Chief delivered the vessel to him with the crew and 67 slaves on board. While on the River Gambia many of the KANGAROO’s crew were stricken with fever.
Shortly after this she escorted two ships (one a Portuguese prize) from Freetown to Barbados, arriving there 23 December 1812.
22 March 1813 she arrived at Deal, England from St Thomas under command of Commander William Summer Hall.
14 December 1815 sold in Plymouth by the Royal Navy for £1,900.
Most probably she became the British whale COUNTES OF MORLEY of 381 register tons, she was also built in Lynn in 1805 and she first appears in the supplement section of Lloyds of 1816. In the Ship-owners version of Lloyds Register it states that the ship was built at the “Kings Yard”, implying that she was built as a naval vessel. King’s Yard appears to apply to any British shipyard which built vessels for the Royal Navy. Quite a few British sloops of war were converted into whalers after they had been sold out of service in the early 19th century say up to 1830.
The COUNTESS OF MORLEY was first owned by Rowe & Co. of Plymouth where no doubt she would have been registered. She was fitted out as a whaler between December 1815 and May 1816, she was also sheated and coppered and repaired. When surveyed she was classified as A1 by Lloyds evidently on the 1st or 2nd May 1816.
Under command of Captain H.Best she sailed from Plymouth on 4 May 1816 for the South Seas. She did much of her whaling off the coast of Peru and around the Galapagos Islands.
She made three wailing voyages all beginning and ending at Plymouth (04 May 1816 to 12 June 1818, 22 October 1818 to 23 December 1821 and from 10 October 1822 to 05 August 1825.)
In November 1817 was she at Lima (Callao) with 1800 barrels of sperm oil on board. Her second voyage she arrived home with 2400 barrels of oil on board.
In 1819, probably near the Galapagos Islands the COUNTESS OF MORLEY was boarded by the Chilean ship the privateer ROSA DE LOS ANDES under command of Captain John Illingworth (formerly Royal Navy) later of the Peruvian Navy, eight of the whalers best seamen were seduced away to join the privateer, and eight worthless men were put on board the whaler. Most of the crew of the privateer was English but also 70 Patriot soldiers were on board. The privateer was partly owned by the Army of the Andes. She was the formerly HMS ROSE of 1805 which as the British merchant ship ROSE brought Lord Cochrane and his party out to Chile in 1818. Then as privateer she sailed from Valparaiso in April 1819 to cruise off Peru and Panama.
On her last voyage at the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) on 8 October 1824she had 1600 barrels of sperm oil on board(from this voyage she brought home the barrels of sperm oil salvaged from the London whaler ELIZA ANN lost in February 1824 near the Friendly Islands, Tonga.
On her last voyage the Countess of Morley was reported off the Friendly Islands and the Sandwich Islands in 1824. After she returned to Plymouth in August 1825 she was sold to a person named Billing, who wasted no time in getting the ship back to sea as a general cargo vessel. For after a few weeks in port she sailed for St John, New Brunswick, Canada arriving on the 07 November, she returned to Plymouth on 19 January 1826 most probably loaded with timber.
In March 1826 she sailed again from Plymouth for Buenos Aires and in May 1827 she sailed from Plymouth for Quebec.
The last notice on the COUNTESS OF MORLEY is given in Lloyds Register of 22 April 1828 which reads, the COUNTESS OF MORLEY proving leaky at Sierra Leone, has been obliged to discharge.
Most probably the repair cost was too high and condemned there.
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Source: article written by the late Mr. Hogan in Logbook. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817 by Rif Winfield.
27 November 1802 ordered.
August 1803 keel laid down
12 September 1805 launched as the HMS KANGAROO, one of the Merlin class.
Tonnage 369 ton (bm), dim. 106 x 28.2 x 13.9ft., length of keel 87.6ft.
Armament; Upper deck 16 – 32 pdrs.
Crew 121.
25 September 1805 completed and 25 September 1806 fitting out was completed in Chatham on 22 February 1806.
January 1806 commissioned under command of Commander Henry Laroche after completed in service in the North Sea till 1811.
1807 Was she under command of Commander John Baker and took the privateer L’EGAYANT on the Down station on 20 November 1808
May 1811 she made a round voyage to Jamaica, arriving back at Portsmouth on 21 September. In November 1811 she escorted some vessels from Portsmouth to Goree, West Africa.
Then she was involved in the suppression of the slave trade, and under command of Captain John Lloyd she used Freetown as her base. IN February 1812 was she at St Thomas (Sao Tome) and it may have been from there the ship went to Ascension to look for slaving vessels.
From April 7th to May she made non-stop passages from Whydah (near Lagos) to Freetown. In late October or early November 1812 she entered the River Gambia when Capt., Lloyd threatened to burn the township of Bintang if the American slaving schooner HOPE was not surrender up to him. The local Chief delivered the vessel to him with the crew and 67 slaves on board. While on the River Gambia many of the KANGAROO’s crew were stricken with fever.
Shortly after this she escorted two ships (one a Portuguese prize) from Freetown to Barbados, arriving there 23 December 1812.
22 March 1813 she arrived at Deal, England from St Thomas under command of Commander William Summer Hall.
14 December 1815 sold in Plymouth by the Royal Navy for £1,900.
Most probably she became the British whale COUNTES OF MORLEY of 381 register tons, she was also built in Lynn in 1805 and she first appears in the supplement section of Lloyds of 1816. In the Ship-owners version of Lloyds Register it states that the ship was built at the “Kings Yard”, implying that she was built as a naval vessel. King’s Yard appears to apply to any British shipyard which built vessels for the Royal Navy. Quite a few British sloops of war were converted into whalers after they had been sold out of service in the early 19th century say up to 1830.
The COUNTESS OF MORLEY was first owned by Rowe & Co. of Plymouth where no doubt she would have been registered. She was fitted out as a whaler between December 1815 and May 1816, she was also sheated and coppered and repaired. When surveyed she was classified as A1 by Lloyds evidently on the 1st or 2nd May 1816.
Under command of Captain H.Best she sailed from Plymouth on 4 May 1816 for the South Seas. She did much of her whaling off the coast of Peru and around the Galapagos Islands.
She made three wailing voyages all beginning and ending at Plymouth (04 May 1816 to 12 June 1818, 22 October 1818 to 23 December 1821 and from 10 October 1822 to 05 August 1825.)
In November 1817 was she at Lima (Callao) with 1800 barrels of sperm oil on board. Her second voyage she arrived home with 2400 barrels of oil on board.
In 1819, probably near the Galapagos Islands the COUNTESS OF MORLEY was boarded by the Chilean ship the privateer ROSA DE LOS ANDES under command of Captain John Illingworth (formerly Royal Navy) later of the Peruvian Navy, eight of the whalers best seamen were seduced away to join the privateer, and eight worthless men were put on board the whaler. Most of the crew of the privateer was English but also 70 Patriot soldiers were on board. The privateer was partly owned by the Army of the Andes. She was the formerly HMS ROSE of 1805 which as the British merchant ship ROSE brought Lord Cochrane and his party out to Chile in 1818. Then as privateer she sailed from Valparaiso in April 1819 to cruise off Peru and Panama.
On her last voyage at the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) on 8 October 1824she had 1600 barrels of sperm oil on board(from this voyage she brought home the barrels of sperm oil salvaged from the London whaler ELIZA ANN lost in February 1824 near the Friendly Islands, Tonga.
On her last voyage the Countess of Morley was reported off the Friendly Islands and the Sandwich Islands in 1824. After she returned to Plymouth in August 1825 she was sold to a person named Billing, who wasted no time in getting the ship back to sea as a general cargo vessel. For after a few weeks in port she sailed for St John, New Brunswick, Canada arriving on the 07 November, she returned to Plymouth on 19 January 1826 most probably loaded with timber.
In March 1826 she sailed again from Plymouth for Buenos Aires and in May 1827 she sailed from Plymouth for Quebec.
The last notice on the COUNTESS OF MORLEY is given in Lloyds Register of 22 April 1828 which reads, the COUNTESS OF MORLEY proving leaky at Sierra Leone, has been obliged to discharge.
Most probably the repair cost was too high and condemned there.
Ascension 2p sg410, scott402.
Source: article written by the late Mr. Hogan in Logbook. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817 by Rif Winfield.