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''Speedy'' was a whaler launched on the Thames in 1779. She also made voyages to New South Wales, transporting female convicts in 1799. She is last listed in ''Lloyd's Register'' in 1813 or so. ==Whaler and convict transport== ''Speedy'' was under the command of Captain John Locke in 1791 when she sailed to the South Seas Fisheries. She was reported at the Cape Verde islands in January 1792, Rio de Janeiro in February, and off the coast of Peru in November. She was back in Britain in August 1793.〔Clayton (2014), p.222.〕 She was mentioned in the Protection Lists in 1793, 1794, and 1796.〔 Captain Thomas Melville sailed in late 1793 to transport stores to Port Jackson and then engage in whaling. However, he was reported to have had to return to Rio de Janeiro in February 1794 to undertake repairs.〔 Melville had been captain on ''Britannia'', also a whaler belonging to Samuel Enderby & Sons, in 1791 when she had been one of 11 ships of the Third Fleet, bound for the Sydney penal settlement. He had seen sperm whales off Van Diemen's Land and Port Jackson, and after delivering the convicts, ''Britannia'' had gone whaling; her crew killed the first four whales taken off the coast of Australia. Melville then wrote to his employers about the prospects for whaling in the region.〔''Free Settler or Felon: Convict Ship Britannia 1791'',() - accessed 9 December 2014.〕 On this second voyage, Melville sailed ''Speedy'' to the coast of Chile, where she was reported "well" in November. She stopped at Rio in January 1796, and arrived back in Britain in October.〔 Between 1797 and 1799, ''Speedy'' was under the command of Captain Abraham Bristow, serving in the South Seas Whale Fisheries. At this point she was armed, though with only two 3-pounder guns. She was back in Britain by July 1799.〔 Captain George Quested replaced Bristow later in 1799. ''Speedy'' is on the Protection List for 1799.〔 She then sailed from England on 24 November 1799, with 53 female convicts. She arrived at Port Jackson on 15 April 1800. Three convicts died on the voyage. ''Speedy'' left Port Jackson in July 1800 to whale off New Holland. She returned to London in November 1802 with 150 tons of sperm oil.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Speedy (1779 ship)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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