# Lune (ship)

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Several vessels have been named ***Lune***.

- [French ship *Lune*](/source/French_ship_Lune_(1641)) was a ship of the line of the French Navy launched in 1641. She foundered on 8 November 1664.
- [*Lune* (1794 ship)](/source/Lune_(1794_ship)) was launched in 1794 at New Brunswick, possibly under another name. She first appeared in British records in 1798. She made once complete voyage as a [slave ship](/source/Slave_ship) in the [triangular trade](/source/Triangular_trade) in enslaved people. A French privateer captured her in 1800 early in her second voyage before she reached Africa.
- *Lune* (1799 ship) was launched in 1799 at Lancaster and traded regularly as a [West Indiaman](/source/West_Indiaman). *Lune* first appeared in *[Lloyd's Register](/source/Lloyd's_Register)* (*LR*) in 1799.[1] Captain James Moon acquired a [letter of marque](/source/Letter_of_marque) on 17 September 1799. It showed her as being of 345 tons burthen, having a crew of 35 men, and carrying four 24-pounder and 16 9-pounder cannons.[2] In 1817 Daniel Bennett purchased *Lune* to sail her as a [whaler](/source/Whaler). Between 1817 and 1819 she made one voyage to the British [southern whale fishery](/source/Whaling_in_the_United_Kingdom#The_southern_whale_fishery). Captain William Coffin sailed from London on 20 September 1817, bound for the southern whale fishery. In late 1818 *Lune* was at Desolation Island. At some point Captain George Woodward replaced William Coffin. Homeward bound, *Lune*, Woodward, master, was at [Saint Helena](/source/Saint_Helena) on 18 May 1819, and sailed for London on 20 May. *Lune*, , master, arrived back at Gravesend on 21 July with 450 casks of [whale oil](/source/Whale_oil).[3] She was broken up in 1820.[4]
- [PS *Lune* (1892)](/source/PS_Lune_(1892)) was a paddle steamer passenger vessel that the [Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway](/source/Lancashire_and_Yorkshire_Railway) operated from 1892 to 1913. From 1913 to 1919 she served [Cosens & Co Ltd](/source/Cosens_%26_Co_Ltd) as *PS Melcombe Regis*. She was laid up in 1919 and was scrapped in 1923/4 at Felixstowe.
- [HMS *Lune*](/source/HMS_Lune) (1930) was a former fishing trawler of that name hired in 1939 as an auxiliary [minesweeper](/source/Minesweeper). In 1944 she was redesignated a "wreck dispersal vessel" and purchased by the Admiralty. In 1946 *Lune* returned to commercial fishing, subsequently as *Loch Lomond*. She was wrecked on 23 October 1952 in Aberdeen harbour.[5]

## See also

- [*Empire Lune*](/source/List_of_Empire_ships_(L)#Empire_Lune)

## Citations

1. [*LR* (1799), Seq.No.L361.](https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015004281260?urlappend=%3Bseq=220)

1. ["Letter of Marque, p.75 – Retrieved 25 July 2017."](https://web.archive.org/web/20161020052005/http://www.1812privateers.org/Great%20Britain/marque1793-1815.pdf). Archived from [the original](http://www.1812privateers.org/Great%20Britain/marque1793-1815.pdf) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.

1. ["British Southern Whale Fishery database – Voyages: *Lune*"](https://whalinghistory.org/bv/voyages/)

1. Stanbury et al. (2015), p. 257.

1. ["Lune"](http://www.teesbuiltships.co.uk/view.php?ref=166594). *Tees Built Ships*. Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 10 November 2022.

## References

- Stanbury, Myra; Henderson, Kandy-Jane; Derrien, Bernard; Bigourdan, Nicolas; Le Touze, Evelyne (2015). ["Chapter 18: Epilogue"](https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=829245882825003;res=IELENG). *The Mermaid Atoll Shipwreck: A Mysterious Early 19th-century Loss*. Stanbury, Myra (ed.). Fremantle, WA: Australian National Centre of Excellence for Maritime Archaeology and the Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. pp. 235–290. ISBN 9781876465094.

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