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34-740: On 20 March 1820 Brind arrived in the Bay of Islands as the captain of the whaler Cumberland , which was owned by Samuel Enderby & Sons . The Cumberland visited Kororareka (nowadays Russell) a number of times, including in August 1821, before sailing for Sydney, Australia in November 1821 with a cargo of whale oil. Brind returned to the Bay as captain of Asp in December 1822 and in 1823 Asp made four whaling voyages from Kororareka. In 1824 Captain Brind sailed Asp to

68-620: A convoy under escort by HMS  Cormorant , a naval storeship coming from the Cape. The convoy included other whalers such as Cumberland , Thames , Admiral Berkeley , and Warre , and some other vessels including Rambler . Cormorant parted from the convoy on 2 December about 280 miles west of Ushant , and arrived at Portsmouth on 18 December. On 6 December Thames and Cumberland spoke Inspector , Martin, master; she had lost her bowsprit, her fore and main masts, and her mizen topmast. Inspector arrived at Gravesend on 21 December. In 1813

102-1012: A letter of marque on 24 April 1806. He sailed from England on 15 May 1806. She was reported to have been "all well" at Bay of Islands in March 1806 and again off New Zealand in September. In 1808 Inspector , Poole, master, Grand Sachem , Whippey, master, and Commerce , Ceroni, master, in Bay of Islands. Grand Sachem and Inspector were full of oil and preparing to return to England. Inspector arrived back in England on 23 August 1808. 4th whaling voyage (1808–1811): Captain John Walker sailed from England on 7 October 1808. On 10 July 1811, Inspector , Walker, master, left St Helena for London. Lloyd's List reported in October 1811 that she had grounded on Margate Sand, but had been gotten off and put into Margate with

136-722: A new master, Cairnes, and a new trade, London—New South Wales. She was also almost rebuilt in 1824. On 29 September 1824, off the Cape Verde Islands, Cumberland was on her way to Rio de Janeiro when she spoke with Barkworth , which was bound for Bombay. Cumberland arrived at Rio de Janeiro 20 October, but Barkworth was never heard from again. Cumberland left England 28 August 1825 with valuable merchandise and 59 passengers. She stayed at Rio for three weeks and arrived in Hobart 22/24 January 1825. Cumberland sailed on 26 May 1827 from Hobart , Van Diemen's Land , for London. She

170-548: A number of whalers and other vessels. Two of the whalers were Cumberland and Warre , and one of the other vessels was Rambler . Captain John Shuttleworth sailed Cumberland on her third whaling voyage, leaving in 1814. He returned on 21 July 1817. In 1813 the British East India Company (EIC) lost its monopoly on the trade between India and Britain. British ships were then free to sail to India or

204-799: A week later they captured the Dutch Greenlandsman Liefde . Another prize money notice reported that Inspector shared with Astria , and Apollo in the prize money of the capture in August 1798 of the Dutch Greenlands ships Delfte , Groenlandia , and Waachzamghheer . On 1 December 1799 Commander Lock and Inspector recaptured the ship Meanwell . The new French privateer lugger Fantasie , of 14 guns and 60 men had captured Meanwell , Manners, master, in late November, as well as some other merchant vessels. HMS Jalouse captured Fantasie and took her into Harwich. In August 1800 Inspector detained Indian Chief , Service, master, as she

238-729: A whale strike caused Captain Dennis great injury and he died a few days later. Captain Harney took command. Inspector returned to England on 6 March 1804 with more than 700 barrels of whale oil . 2nd whaling voyage (1804–1805): Captain Simon Smith acquired a letter of marque on 28 April 1804. he sailed from England on 10 May 1804, bound for the Isle of Desolation . He returned on 11 July 1805. 3rd whaling voyage (1806–1808): Captain Robert Poole acquired

272-460: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Cumberland (1800 ship) Cumberland was launched in 1800 and sailed as a West Indiaman until 1807 or 1808 when she was sold to Enderbys. She then made five voyages as a whaler in the British southern whale fishery . Enderbys sold Cumberland and she proceeded to sail between England and Australia. In 1827 she sailed from Hobart and

306-501: Is called the Girls' War because it began with insults and curses being exchanged between young, high-ranking Māori women, rivals for the affection of Captain Brind. However, Brind was not in the Bay of Islands at the time of the incident. Te Urumihia, the wife of Kiwikiwi of the Ngati Manu hapū and the chief of Kororāreka , whose daughter was involved in the incident, cursed Brind's women (Pehi

340-498: The Bay of Islands in September 1828 as captain of Toward Castle . From 1828 Brind lived with Moewaka, the daughter of Rewa (Manu), a chief of Ngai Tawake hapū of the Ngāpuhi. Their daughter was baptised Eliza Isabella Brind, who was murdered in 1841 by Wiremu Kingi Maketu , who was later convicted of the murder of Eliza and 4 others. He is famous for sparking the Girls' War in 1830. It

374-712: The British East India Company (EIC) had lost its monopoly on the trade between India and Britain. British ships were then free to sail to India or the Indian Ocean under a licence from the EIC. Inspector ' s owners applied for a licence on 25 July 1814 to engage in whaling in the East Indies and received it on 8 August. By then Inspector had already sailed. 6th whaling voyage (1814–1817): Captain Barnabas Gardner sailed from London on 10 May 1814. On 6 December 1816 Inspector

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408-790: The Indian Ocean under a licence from the EIC. While Cumberland was on her voyage, on 23 March 1815 her owners applied for and the same day received a licence for her to whale hunt in the East Indies. Captain John Christopher Gooch sailed Cumberland from England on 9 January 1818, bound for the Isle of Desolation . He died on 14 August when he went overboard off the southern end of Madagascar. Captain Andrew Marshall replaced Gooch and returned on to England on 20 July 1819 with 150 casks of oil. Captain William Darby Brind sailed Cumberland from England on 22 October 1819, bound for

442-690: The Leeward Islands on 26 December 1793. In 1794 Inspector was part of the naval forces at Admiral Jervis's capture of the French colonies of Martinique , Guadeloupe and Saint Lucia Commander Bryer died on 23 October 1794. Commander John Cooke replaced him in command of Inspector . On 7 April 1795 Inspector captured the sloop Harriet . Then in June 1795 Commander Robert Otway replaced Cooke. He paid off Inspector in December 1795. In September 1796 Commander Charles Lock commissioned Inspector for

476-621: The Leith Roads station. Disposal: "The Principal Offices and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered the "Inspector Sloop, 310 Tons, Copper-bottomed and Copper-fastened, lying at Sheerness" for sale on 24 February 1802. Inspector was sold at that time, at the commencement of the Peace of Amiens . Daniel Bennett purchased Inspector . 1st whaling voyage (1802–1804): Captain Thomas Dennis sailed from England on 10 June 1802. On 1 March 1803

510-689: The New South Wales fisheries. She was on her way to Sydney from New Zealand in July 1820 when she encountered one of the two boats carrying the crew members of the whaler Echo , which had wrecked on Cato Reef on 21 April. (Getting the boats ready to sail had taken some time.) Cumberland brought the survivors into Sydney. Cumberland was off New Zealand on 13 November 1821. She returned to England on 21 May 1822 with 500 casks of oil. In 1824 Enderby sold Cumberland to Cairnes (Cairns, or Carns) & Co. The Register of Shipping for 1824 has Cumberland with

544-645: The North Sea. In May–June 1797 Inspector was caught up in the Spithead and Nore mutinies , with her crew taking Lock hostage. She was at Yarmouth as part of Admiral Duncan's North Sea squadron when her crew mutinied on 30 May. They sailed her to the Nore to join the mutineers there. The mutiny aboard Inspector followed the foiling of an earlier plot on the Humber on 25 May with the mutineers intending to sail her to France. Lock had

578-690: The South Seas again on 10 December 1810. There is a report that Cumberland was at Port Jackson in 1811, and an advertisement of 15 June 1811 in the Sydney Gazette noted that letters had arrived per the ship Cumberland from England and were at the Post office, which agrees with J.S. Cumpston's report that the whaler arrived in Port Jackson 5/6 June and departed by 10 July, in contrast with other published port records which do not indicate this. In February 1813 she

612-564: The crew were transferred to other vessels. In the summer of 1799 the Admiralty ordered Inspector to convoy the merchant ships assembled at the Nore bound for Archangel to the 54 deg. latitude. She was to call at the Humber and some similar ports to gather the vessels there too. On 30 July, HMS  Astraea , Inspector , and Apollo captured the Dutch Greenlandsmen (northern fisheries whalers) Frederick and Waachzamghheer . Then

646-549: The daughter of Hongi Hika and Moewaka, the daughter of Rewa, a chief of the Ngai Tawake hapū, of Kerikeri ). On 19 December 1835 Brind married Eliza Anne Snoswell, at Gravesend, Kent. Eliza Brind came to New Zealand and they lived at Matauwhi Bay, near Russell. William and Eliza had three sons and two daughters who were baptised in New Zealand. Brind died at the Bay of Islands in 1850. This New Zealand biographical article

680-562: The four ringleaders confined aboard HMS  Nonsuch . At the Nore Inspector ' s mutineers there stated that they were holding Lock hostage for the four arrested men. Between 3 and 11 June, Inspector was one of the four naval vessels that blockaded the Thames. Lock was escorted off Inspector on 13 June; the mutiny on Inspector ended the next day. Eventually, all the mutineers aboard Inspector were pardoned, but they and many others of

714-409: The hired armed lugger Phoenix , and hired armed cutter Drake on a cruise to protect the homeward-bound Baltic fleet from French privateers, one having been reported off Scarborough. He stated in a letter that he intended to augment the patrol with Inspector and the cutters Hazard and Diligent when they arrived. In February 1801 Commander Robert Howe Bromley took command of Inspector on

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748-584: The loss of her anchors, cables, and bowsprit, and other damage. She arrived back at Gravesend, Kent on 9 October 1811. 5th whaling voyage (1812–1813): Captain Andrew Sturton (or Stirton) sailed from England in 1812. In February 1813 Inspector was well in the South Sea fishery, in this case at Timor, as were Albion , Baroness Longueville , Cumberland , Good Sachem , Ocean , Thames , and Venus . Inspector sailed from St Helena as part of

782-549: The murder of Cumberland ' s crew and eight passengers, including two children. Seven pirates were hanged at Cadiz, and one, an Englishman from Guernsey, had been handed over to British authorities at Gibraltar. By another report, Captain Duthie, of Bengal Merchant , brought to Tasmania from Rio de Janeiro a report from Captain Crew, of Clarinda . Pirates had captured Clarinda and plundered her, but then had released her. While on board

816-498: The only vessel built to her design. She participated in one campaign and also captured a handful of small merchant vessels before the Navy sold her in 1802. Most notably, her crew participated in the mutiny at the Nore. After her sale, she became the whaler Inspector . She made six complete voyages to the British southern whale fishery . A Chilean privateer captured her in May 1819. Eventually she

850-399: The pirate vessel, Crew had seen a bucket with the name Cumberland on it. A storm had driven the pirates to Cadiz. There the authorities turned them over to a British man-of-war, which had carried the pirates to Cadiz. Some were condemned there, and others were condemned in England when they arrived there. HMS Inspector (1782) HMS Inspector was launched at Wivenhoe in 1782 as

884-690: The whaling grounds of Japan. On 17 December 1825 Brind returned to the Bay of Islands as captain of the Emily . From about 1823 until 1826 Captain Brind lived with a daughter of Pōmare I , chief of the Ngāti Manu hapū (subtribe) of the Ngāpuhi . Brind became a friend of the Reverend Thomas Kendall and assisted the latter upon his expulsion from the Church Missionary Society . Brind arrived at

918-533: Was at Port Jackson with a cargo of oil, having come from England. He left on 20 July for the whale fishery. He returned from the fishery on 22 July 1809 with oil, and then left in September for the fishery again. Cumberland returned to England on 3 July 1810. Although there are reports that Captain David or Daniel Kell was master in 1810, this cannot have been for long. Captain William Swain sailed Cumberland for

952-782: Was at Timor. She returned to England on 18 February 1817. 7th whaling voyage (1817–loss): Captain John Duncan sailed from England on 4 September 1817, bound for Peru. The Chilean privateer Chileno captured Inspector in May 1818 and sent her into Valparaiso, where Inspector arrived on 26 June. Lloyd's List reported in November 1818 that Inspector , Dunkin, master, had been captured and taken into Valparaiso. Lloyd's List continued to carry Inspector with unchanged info until 1825. However, on 19 December 1819 Inspector , Bruce, master, arrived at Valparaiso from Callao . Then on 1 March 1821 Inspector , Pashers, master, arrived at Rio de Janeiro from Guayaquil. Inspector , Brun, master,

986-717: Was condemned as unseaworthy at Santander in 1821. Commander William Heath commissioned Inspector in March 1783 for the Irish Sea. He recommissioned her in May. She was paid off in October 1787. Commander Alexander Mackay recommissioned Inspector in January 1788 for Southwest Scotland. She was refitted for Channel service at Plymouth between June and September 1789. Inspector came under Commander James Lecky in October 1790, still for Southwest Scotland. She underwent fitting at Deptford between March and June 1793. Commander Wyndham Bryer recommissioned Inspector in May 1793. He sailed for

1020-520: Was never seen again. It later transpired that pirates had captured her off the Falkland Islands and killed her crew and passengers. Cumberland enters the Register of Shipping and Lloyd's Register in 1801. Cumberland then continued to sail between London and Jamaica. On 14 January 1806, Lloyd's List reported that Cumberland , Kent, master, had been damaged in a gale at Portsmouth as she

1054-612: Was not seen again. Lloyd's List reported on 29 July 1828 that Cumberland had been captured and her crew murdered. Another report identified the pirates as sailing under " Carthagena " colours. Tasmanian newspapers reported that the pirates had captured Cumberland off the Falkland Islands. A hull that had been seen dismasted but afloat off the River Plate was probably Cumberland . A pirate schooner with 70 men had been captured and taken into Cadiz. Several men on her had confessed to

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1088-545: Was on her way from London to Jamaica. Several other merchantmen were damaged at the same time. In 1807, or 1808 Hodgson sold Cumberland to Samuel Enderby & Sons , who would employ her between 1814 and 1825 on five voyages as a whaler in the Southern Whale Fishery. The Register of Shipping is not available for 1808, but in 1809 it had recorded the change. Lloyd's Register did not catch up until 1810. Cumberland sailed in 1808. On 26 June Captain W. Swain

1122-438: Was sailing from Hamburg to Bengal. The government seized seven bales of linen. Inspector shared the prize money with the hired armed cutter Diligent . Commander Lock died on 14 February 1800 at Bath. Commander George Sayer replaced Lock in command of Inspector . On 5 May 1800 Inspector recaptured Johanna Eleanora . On 15 December 1800, Admiral Archibald Dickson at Yarmouth Roads, sent Shannon , Bittern ,

1156-403: Was well in the South Sea fishery, in this case Timor, as were Inspector , Albion , Baroness Longueville , Good Sachem , Ocean , Thames , and Venus . Cumberland returned to England on 22 December 1813. HMS  Cormorant returned to Portsmouth on 18 December. She had sailed from the Cape on 5 September, and from Saint Helena on 23 October. She had been in company with

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