Isabella first appeared in the Register of Shipping (RS) in 1804.[1] By then she had been sailing out of Newcastle as a whaler for some time.
| Year |
Master |
Owner |
Trade |
Source & notes |
| 1804 |
Clarke |
Humble |
Newcastle–Davis Strait |
RS; thorough repair 1794 & 1802 |
|
| Year |
Master |
Where |
"Fish"
(Whales) |
Tuns blubber |
| 1802 |
Clark |
DS |
12 |
219 |
| 1803 |
|
|
13 |
270.25 |
| 1804 |
|
DS |
11 |
157 |
| 1805 |
Clark |
DS |
13 or 19 |
267.5 |
| 1806 |
Clark |
|
3 |
82.5 |
| 1807 |
Clark |
DS |
7 |
167.5 or 192, + 5 tons of fins |
| 1808 |
Lambert |
DS |
15 |
152.25 |
|
In 1805 one of the whales that Isabella had killed was one of the largest whales ever caught.
When Isabella returned home to Newcastle in 1808 one of her crewmen lost his arm. The arm was shot off when he fired a cannon to signal her arrival.[2]
On 17 December 1808 HMS Briseis towed Isabella, of Newcastle, Lambert, master, into Harwich. Isabella had been sailing from Calmar to Hull when she became distressed. she had five feet of water in her hold, part of her cargo and guns had been thrown overboard, and her foreyard and her sails from the foreyard had been cut down. Her crew had been about to take to her boats and abandon her when Briseis came on the scene.[3]
| Year |
Master |
Where |
"Fish"
(Whales) |
Tuns blubber |
| 1809 |
Johnson |
Gr |
15 |
300 |
| 1810 |
|
|
21 |
322.25 |
| Year |
Master |
Owner |
Trade |
Source & notes |
| 1810 |
Clarke |
Humble |
Newcastle–Davis Strait |
RS; thorough repair 1806 |
|
Great Britain