Royalist was a ship launched in 1794 from Sunderland. She was a general trader ship until 1812 when she became a whaler in the northern whale fishery. She was lost in April 1814 while whaling in the Davis Strait.
Career Royalist first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1795 with Robert Finley, master, H.Rudd, owner, and trade London–Hamburg.LR (1795), Seq.№R247.
Year Master Owner Trade Source 1800 J.Wray Schoffield Hull–Petersburg LR 1805 F.Walton Schoffield CorkLR; damages repaired 1801 1810 Walton Schofield Hull–Baltic Register of Shipping 1812 J.AtkinEdmonds Heseltine Hull–Quebec LR; rebuilt 1810 1813 A.Edmonds Gibson & Co. Hull–Davis Strait LR; rebuilt 1810 & damages repaired 1812
In 1812 Royalist became a Northern Whale Fishery whaler. The following data is from Coltish:
Year Master Where Whales Tuns whale oil 1812 Edmonds 6 93 1813 Edmonds Davis Strait 0 0 1814 Edmonds Greenland 0 0
Fate Lloyd's List (LL) reported in August 1814 that Royalist had foundered in the Davis Strait with the loss of all hands.LL 16 August 1814. There had been 54 crew members on board.
It was believed that she had foundered at . Three years later one of her casks washed ashore at Hoy Sound.
Captain Benet, of Venerable had been in company before Royalist was lost. At 8 am on the 14th, they fell in with drift ice. A gale of 12 hours' duration developed, followed by a tremendous storm of 20 hours' duration. Royalist and Venerable separated; Captain Bennet believed that she had been lost to windward of some icebergs.
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