APPENDIX. 



HISTORY OF THE BARQUE TRUELOVE. 



BUILT for the merchant trade, she was launched at 

 Philadephia, United States, in the year 1764, and has 

 consequently reached the patriarchal age of 109 years. 

 Having proved to be a handy, swift sailing craft, the 

 Truelove was employed by the Americans during their first 

 war with England as a privateer, but, being captured by a 

 British cruiser, was purchased in Hull from the English 

 Government about the year 1780. 



She was then employed in the wine trade between Oporto 

 and Hull. The little craft being got up in true man-of-war 

 style, with figure-head and quarter galleries, still carried no 

 less than six guns on a side, and was stoutly manned for 

 defence. Seeing that France was at war with Great 

 Britain, the channel and the coasts of Portugal swarmed 

 with hostile cruisers, and the wine trade was carried on at a 

 great risk. But the Truelove boldly ran her own convoy 

 without waiting, as was then the custom, for an armed 

 consort, and although, on many occasions chased by the 

 French, she always managed to escape. 



In the year 1784 we find the good ship transformed into 

 a whaler, being strengthened and fortified to encounter the 

 dangers of the icy north. In this trade she was singularly 

 fortunate, braving numerous perils, to which many of her 

 old consorts succumbed, and many a shipwrecked crew has 



