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词条 Dutch ship Minerva (1787)
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  1. Dutch navy

  2. Royal Navy

  3. Whaler

  4. Fate

  5. Notes, citations, and references

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  • Royal Navy:Post ship
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  • British service:155
  • Whaler:32, or 40[1]
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  • Royal Navy service:
    • Upper deck:22 × 32-pounder carronades
    • QD:2 × 6-pounder guns
  • Whaler:20 × 6&9-pounder guns[1] (16 × 9-pounder + 4 × 6-pounder guns)
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Minerva was launched in 1787 at Veere for the navy of the Dutch Republic. In 1799 the Royal Navy captured her. She became HMS Braak, but the Navy sold her with the arrival of the Peace of Amiens. Daniel Bennet purchased her and she became the whaler Africa. she made two whaling voyages. She returned in 1805. She was still listed in Lloyd's Register for some years thereafter but there is no record of further whaling or other voyages.

Dutch navy

Admiral Mitchel's squadron captured Minerva on 28 August 1799 in the New Diep off Texel.

Royal Navy

Minerva arrived at Sheerness on 3 May 1800. The Royal Navy took Minerva into service as HMS Braak, the former {{HMS|Braak|1795|2}} having been lost in 1798. Braak underwent fitting between July 1800 and September 1801.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=235}}

Captain John Mason Lewis commissioned Braak in August 1801. However, the Navy sold her in 1802.

The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered "Braak, 615 Tons, Copper-bottomed, lying at Deptford" for sale on 9 September 1802.[1] She sold on that day or shortly thereafter.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=235}}

Whaler

The shipowner Daniel Bennett purchased Braak and renamed her African (or Africa). She first appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1803 with R. Jones, master, and Bennett, owner, and trade London–South Seas.[2] \\

{{see also|List of ships owned by Daniel Bennett & Son}}

Captain Ransom Jones sailed from England on 4 February 1803, bound for the Isle of Desolation. He returned on 22 May 1804 with a reported 7000 barrels of oil.[3]

Captain Ransom (or Ranson) Jones received a letter of marque on 18 July 1804.[4] He sailed on 18 August 1804, again bound for the Isle of Desolation. She was reported to have been "all well" there on 25 February 11805.[5] He returned on 4 October 1805 with 70,000 seal skins, and oil.[3]

On 3 August 1805 African left Saint Helena in a convoy under escort by {{HMS|Calcutta|1795|6}}. On 26 September the convoy was in the Channel south of the Isles of Scilly when it encountered Allemand's squadron. Calcutta ordered the convoy to scatter and make for England while she engaged the French. The French ultimately captured Calcutta, but by her sacrifice she had saved the convoy.

A French frigate chased African for some time but African escaped by "superior sailing".[3] African reached Falmouth,[6] and then returned to her moorings on 4 October 1805 with 70,000 seal skins, and oil.[3]

Fate

African was last listed in 1810 but with data unchanged from 1805. One source reports that she was broken up and her registration cancelled in 1817.{{sfnp|Stanbury et al.|2015|App.7}}

Notes, citations, and references

Notes
1. ^{{London Gazette|date=24 August 1802| issue=15509|page=904}}
2. ^[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015005667087?urlappend=%3Bseq=535 Lloyd's Register (1803), Supple. pages "A", Seq.№A11.]
3. ^1 2 3 [https://whalinghistory.org/bv/voyages/ British Southern Whale Fishery database: Voyages: African.]
4. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|url=http://www.1812privateers.org/Great%20Britain/marque1793-1815.pdf|title=Letter of Marque, p.48 - accessed 25 July 2017.|publisher=|access-date=27 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020052005/http://www.1812privateers.org/Great%20Britain/marque1793-1815.pdf|archive-date=20 October 2016|dead-url=yes|df=dmy-all}}
5. ^[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735022?urlappend=%3Bseq=105 Lloyd's List №4226.]
6. ^[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735022?urlappend=%3Bseq=169 Lloyd's List №4260.]
Citations{{reflist|30em}}References
  • Stanbury, Myra, Kandy-Jane Henderson, Bernard Derrien, Nicolas Bigourdan, & Evelyne Le Touze (2015) "Chapter 18: Epilogue" [online]. In: Stanbury, Myra. The Mermaid Atoll Shipwreck: A Mysterious Early 19th-century Loss. (Fremantle, WA: Australian National Centre of Excellence for Maritime Archaeology and the Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology): 235-290. [https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=829245882825003;res=IELENG] {{ISBN|9781876465094}} [cited 20 Aug 18].
  • van Maanen, Ron, Preliminary list of Dutch naval vessel built or acquired in the period 1700-1799. Unpublished manuscript. 
  • {{cite book |first=Rif|last=Winfield|title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|publisher=Seaforth Publishing|year=2008|isbn=978-1-86176-246-7}}
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