Amphitrite (1796 ship)
| History | |
|---|---|
 Great Britain | |
| Name | Amphitrite |
| Namesake | Amphitrite |
| Launched | 1796, Kingston upon Hull |
| Fate | Captured 1799 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen | 183,[1] or 194[2] (bm) |
| Complement | 38[2] |
| Armament | |
Amphitrite was launched in 1796 at Kingston upon Hull. She first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1797 with S.Barker, master, Atkinson, owner, and trade Hull–Lisbon.[3] Lloyd's Register does not show any change of ownership or master, but the Register of Shipping for 1800 showed her with Adams, master, Forbes, owner, and trade Liverpool–Africa.[1] By another account Amphitute, of 194 tons (bm), George Adams, master, William Forbes & Co., sailed from Liverpool on 17 June 1799 for the Gold Coast, where she intended to purchase 323 slaves.[4] Captain George Adams sailed from Liverpool on 21 July 1799.[2]
In 1799, 156 vessels sailed from British ports bound on slave-trading voyages, 134 of them from Liverpool.[5]
Lloyd's List reported on 4 February 1800 that "the French Squadron" had captured Adriana, Hewitt, master, and Amphitrite, of Liverpool, on the coast of Africa.[6][a]
In 1799, 18 British slave-trading ships were lost, five of them on the coast of Africa. In 1800, the numbers were 34 and 20, with three vessels captured on their way to Africa.[9] From 1793 to 1807, war, rather than maritime hazards or resistance by the captives, was the greatest cause of vessel losses among British slave ships.[10]
Notes
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ a b c RS (1800), Seq.№A339.
- ^ a b c Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Amphitrite voyage #80228.
- ^ a b LR (1797), "A" supple. pages, Seq.№A61.
- ^ Genuine Dicky Sam (1884), pp. 124–125.
- ^ Williams (1897), p. 680.
- ^ Lloyd's List 4 February 1800, №4021.
- ^ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Adriana voyage #80049.
- ^ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Adriana voyage #80050.
- ^ Inikori (1996), p. 62.
- ^ Inikori (1996), p. 58.
References
[edit]- Genuine Dicky Sam (1884). Liverpool and slavery, by a genuine Dicky Sam.
- Inikori, Joseph E. (1996). "Measuring the unmeasured hazards of the Atlantic slave trade: documents relating to the British trade". Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer. 83 (312). PERSEE Program: 53–92. doi:10.3406/outre.1996.3457. ISSN 0300-9513.
- Williams, Gomer (1897). History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque: With an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade (PDF). W. Heinemann.