Global InformationButterworth Squadron information
 Jackal 1792
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| History | |
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 Great Britain | |
| Name | Jackal |
| Owner | Priestly |
| Launched | 1782, in America |
| Fate | Last listed in Lloyd's Register in 1796 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | tender to Butterworth |
| Tons burthen | 86 (bm) |
| Sail plan | sloop |
 Prince Lee Boo 1792
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| History | |
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| Great Britain | |
| Name | Prince Lee Boo |
| Owner | Priestly |
| Launched | 1791 on the Thames |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | tender to Butterworth |
| Tons burthen | 56 (bm) |
| Sail plan | sloop |
The Butterworth Squadron was a British commercial group of three vessels, Butterworth, Jackal, and Prince Lee Boo, that sailed for the Pacific Ocean from London via Cape Horn in late 1791.[1] The principals financing the expedition were Alderman William Curtis, London ship-owner Theophilus Pritzler, and probably John Perry, a Blackwall shipbuilder. The leader of the expedition was Captain William Brown, an established whaling captain from the Greenland whale fishery. Sigismund Bacstrom, a naturalist who had previously sailed as a secretary to Sir Joseph Banks, was the surgeon for the expedition. Bacstrom produced a number of drawings during the first part of the voyage, some of which are still in existence.[1]
The expedition is notable for a violent conflict with the Tla-o-qui-aht People of Vancouver Island and another reported conflict in Formosa.[2][3] Butterworth, Jackal and Prince Lee Boo are often credited with being the first European vessels to enter Honolulu Harbor.[4]
Jackal and Prince Lee Boo are also notable for taking part in the war between Kalanikupule and his uncle Ka'eokulani on the island of Oahu,[5] for firing the shot that killed John Kendrick aboard Lady Washington,[6] and for participating in an aborted attack on Kamehameha by Kalanikupule.
- ^ a b Cole, Douglas. Sigismund Bacstrom's Northwest Coast Drawings and an Account of his Curious Career. BC Studies Journal, Summer 1980
- ^ Ingraham, Joseph. Journal of the Brigantine HOPE on a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America 1790–92. Imprint Society, Inc. 1971
- ^ Roe, Michael ed. The Journal and Letters of Captain Charles Bishop on the North-West Coast of America, in the Pacific and in New South Wales 1794–1799. The Hakluyt Society 1967
- ^ Stokes, John Francis Gray. Honolulu and some new speculative phases of Hawaiian history. Annual Report of the Hawaiian Historical Society, 1933
- ^ Kamakau, Samuel M. Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii. Kamehameha Schools Press 1992
- ^ Boit, John (Edmond Hayes editor). Log of the Union, John Boit's Remarkable Voyage 1794–1796. Oregon Historical Society 1981