Talk:HMS Enchantress (1804)

"Journal of a Voyage and Private Transactions occurred in the Schooner "Enchantress" from Liverpool to Barbados and Nassau N.P. and back to Swansea and Liverpool 1843 - J.G.Bisset". According to his log/journal, Captain John Greig Bisset sailed the HMS Enchantress from London to Madeira, Nassau N.P. and back to Swansea in Wales thence to Liverpool in 1843 plus three more voyages as recorded in his writings. In his first voyage he records - "I have now been at sea for 12 years, I have been in a hurricane before that hurricane which done so much injury in St Thomas in 1837 but I can safely say it has never blown so hard for such a length of time in all my experience and I must say the “Enchantress” is now the 12 vessel I have sailed on board of and I have never seen any one of those vessels lay to as she does although much more powerful in every respect she being the smallest." During this hurricane, the ship suffered damage to the main mast and he "went aloft and examined the mast and found it sprung in two places about 4 and 6 feet below the rigging ... measured the spar found it 61 feet in length and 46 inches in circumference at the deck." According to his journal, on his first voyage it appears that his cargo consisted mainly of tobacco with other voyages transporting cotton and other merchandise.

Schooner Enchantress

According to Lloyd's Register for 1844, Enchantress, Bisset, master, was of 120 tons (bm:old) or 142 (bm; new). She had been launched at Ipswich in 1834. Her owner was Hacket & Co, her homeport was London, and her trade was Liverpool to Barbados, changing to London to Batavia. Clearly, Bisset's Enchantress was not the former HMS Enchantress. Sorry. Acad Ronin (talk) 03:17, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

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