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Thursday 10 February 2022

British whaler Swan 1776-1842

Maritime museum Hull

Building ordered by the British Admiralty on 8 May 1766, launched as a 16 guns sloop of 300 tons burthen an a length of 96.5 on 21 November 1767, converted into a fire ship in 1779, converted back into a sloop, sold on 1 September 1814, bought by William Gibson, shipbuilder at Hull, England in 1815, used as a whaler in the northern fishery, sold to Samuel and William Spyvee&Cooper in 1823, still active in the fishery until 1840 and then sold at Aberdeen, Scotland to be broken up in 1842.

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