Brunswick (1814 ship)

History
United Kingdom
NameBrunswick
Owner
  • 1814:James Shrapnell Bowden & Benjamin Wright
  • 1824:James Bowden and William Wright
BuilderThomas Steemson, Paull, Hull
Launched7 February 1814
FateWrecked 7 April 1842
NotesHackman conflates this Brunswick with Brunswick.
General characteristics
Tons burthen357, or 357894 (bm)
Armament2 × 9-pounder guns + 10 × 9-pounder carronades

Brunswick was launched at Hull and initially was a Greenland whaler. Her owner withdrew her from the northern whale fishery in 1836 and then deployed her sailing to New York and Sierra Leone. She was apparently on a voyage to India when she was wrecked on 7 April 1842.