L'Aigle

L'Aigle (or Aigle, or Eagle) was launched in France in 1801, 1802, or 1803. The British Royal Navy captured her in 1809. From 1810 to 1817, she was a West Indiaman. From 1817 L'Aigle made four complete voyages as a whaler in the British Southern Whale fishery. On her third whaling voyage, she carried King Kamehameha II of Hawaii and Queen Kamāmalu with a number of their retainers and Hawaiian notables to England. She was lost on 6 March 1830 on her fifth whaling voyage. West Indiaman L'Aigle first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1810. It gave her master and owner as [C.C.] Parish, and her trade as London–Jamaica. L'Aigle capsized and sank on 13 August 1813 in the West India Docks, London. She was pumped dry, refloated, and put into dock at Limehouse within three days. Whaler From 1817, L'Aigle made four complete voyages as a whaler in the British Southern Whale fishery, and was lost in 1830 on her fifth.