Home Castle (1811 ship)
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Home Castle was launched in Aberdeen in 1811. From 1813 on she was a whaler in the British northern whale fishery (Greenland and Davis Strait). She was lost in 1829 while whaling in Davis Strait.
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Name | Home Castle |
Namesake | Hume Castle |
Launched | 1811,[1] Aberdeen[1] |
Fate | Lost 1829 |
General characteristics | |
Tons burthen | 311,[2] or 315[1] (bm) |
Armament | 8 × 9-pounder carronades |
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