Harpooner (1769 ship)
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Harpooner was launched at Whitby in 1769, or possibly a few years later. Her early career is obscure. She may have been a Greenland whaler between 1786 and 1792.[5] She appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1801, and thereafter traded across the Atlantic. She was wrecked in 1816 with heavy loss of life.
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Name | Harpooner |
Builder | Whitby |
Launched | 1769,[1] or 1773,[2] or 1776[3] |
Fate | Wrecked 10 November 1816 |
General characteristics | |
Tons burthen | 340,[4] or 341,[1] or 370[2] (bm) |
Length | 104 ft (31.7 m)[1] |
Beam | 27 ft (8.2 m)[1] |
Propulsion | Sail |
Notes | Three masts |
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