List of ships owned by Daniel Bennett & Son

By the early 19th century, Daniel Bennett was the most important owner of vessels engaging in whale hunting in the Southern Whale Fishery. At one point he had some 17 vessels out whale hunting. He also owned vessels that were traders rather than whalers.

Bennett purchased vessels rather than having them built for him. Many of Bennett's vessels appear to have been prizes to the Royal Navy, or warships that the Navy was disposing of after the end of the French Revolutionary (1802), or Napoleonic Wars (1815). Name changes make it difficult, or impossible absent original research, to identify many of the vessels' earlier histories.

The list below is primarily from Stanbury, but also incorporates information from articles on the vessels themselves.


 * Active (1789–1792)
 * Active (1801–1803}
 * Active (1804–1805)
 * Adventure (1804–1808)
 * African (1803–1810)
 * Ann (1793–1797)
 * Antelope (1804–1805)
 * Arab (1819–1820)
 * HMS Arab (1798) (1813–1824)
 * Barbara (1800-1802)
 * Benson (1810–1811)
 * Betsy (1785 or 1791–1811)
 * Caledonia (1800–1806)
 * Cape Packet (1821–1830)
 * Catherine (1813–1833)
 * Ceres (1791)
 * Conservative (1836)
 * Countess de Galvaez (1794)
 * Currency Lass (1839)
 * Daniel (1818–1832)
 * Daniel IVth (1823–1830)
 * Diana (1802–1821)
 * Diana (1829-April 1843)
 * Dave (1827–1832)
 * Duke of Portland (1797–1811)
 * HMS Echo (1797) (1809–1821)
 * HMS Eclipse (1807) (1824–1842)
 * Elligood (1795–1805)
 * Fancy (1790)
 * Fanny (1794–1803)
 * Favorite (1799–1803)
 * Favourite (1808)
 * Favourite (1819–1823)
 * Favourite (1816–1845)
 * HMS Ferret (1784) (1802–1816)
 * HMS Flirt (1782) (1796–1803)
 * Francis (1819–1826)
 * Frederick (1813–1821)
 * Georgia Packet (1813)
 * Grand Sachem (1815–1822)
 * Greenwich (1830–1833)
 * Hillsborough (1799)
 * Hunter (1815–1822)
 * Indispensable (1796–1827)
 * HMS Inspector (1782) (1802–1822)
 * James Hay (1818–1822)
 * Japan (1831)
 * Kent (1838–1844)
 * Kingston (1798–1802)
 * Lively (1786–1792)
 * Lively (1799–1808)
 * Lord Hawkesbury (1792–1796)
 * Lovely Ann (1819–1825)
 * Lucy (1804)
 * Lune (1817–1820)
 * Magnet (1832–1835)
 * Mariana/Marianne/Mary Ann (1818–1830)
 * Mary (1805–1810)
 * Mary (1821–1823)
 * Morning Star (1813)
 * Nereid/Neried (1814)
 * New Zealander (1808–1825)
 * Nimrod (1839)
 * Ocean (1820–1825)
 * Ocean (1822–1825)
 * Phoenix (1812–1829)
 * Pritzler (1796–1798)
 * Rambler (1803–1807)
 * Ranger (1804–1819)
 * Ranger (1819–1832)
 * Ranger (1836–1848)
 * Rapid (1820–1826)
 * Recovery (1802–1813)
 * Recovery (1813–1843)
 * Recovery (1810–1817)
 * Reliance (1833–1838)
 * Royal George (1816–1825)
 * Royal Sovereign (1825–1835)
 * Sally (1796–1814)
 * Sarah (1821–1837)
 * Sir Charles Price (1815-1833)
 * Sisters (1825–1830)
 * Sprightly (1801–1809)
 * Timor (1813–1834)
 * Vansittart (1817–1829)
 * Venus (1805–1811)
 * Vere (1790-1793)
 * William (1825–1827)
 * Young William (1794-1810)

The following vessels are listed in Stanbury, but appear not to be whalers, or Bennett-owned vessels.


 * HMS Lyra (1808) (1824–1833)
 * Stormont (1784–c.1794)
 * Tyne (1821–1831)