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} |} ''Vulture'' was a whaler that her owners apparently acquired prior to late 1801 and employed in the South Seas whale fisheries between 1801 and 1809. ''Lloyd's Register'' describes her as a copper-sheathed ship and French prize. A Spanish privateer captured her in 1809. ==Origins== ''Vulture'' first appears in ''Lloyd's Register'' for 1801, where the supplement shows ''Vulture''s origins as France, and her owner as Mather & Co. One source states that she was formerly a Rotch ship out of Dunkirk that had been captured and sold to London merchants.〔Stackpole (1972), p.242.〕 (William Rotch Jnr. was an American Quaker who had operated whalers out of Dunkirk between 1786 and 1794. Rotch had left Dunkirk well before 1802 and his vessels would have been flying American flags, not French. For ''Vulture'' to have been a prize of war and a Rotch ship, she would probably have to have been captured between 1793 and around 1795. If he had sold her prior to her capture then there is no issue. Unfortunately, there is no readily available account of the capture of a ''Vulture''. 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「Vulture (c. 1800 ship)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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