Hector (1809 ship)
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Hector was a 19th-century ship that the British captured around 1809. She became a West Indiaman, making at least one voyage to Hayti. New owners in 1811 sent her off to the Pacific to engage in whale hunting. There the Spanish detained her, but then released her. Next, the United States Navy captured her in an engagement. Her captors took her into Valparaiso, where they burnt her in February 1814.
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Name | Hector |
Acquired | 1809 by purchase of a prize |
Fate | Captured and burnt 1814 |
General characteristics | |
Tons burthen | 262,[1] or 263[2] (bm) |
Complement | 25 |
Armament | 1 × 12-pounder + 6 × 6-pounder guns + 4 × 18-pounder guns "of the New Construction"[1] |
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