Parr (1797 ship)
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| Name | Parr |
| Owner | Thomas Parr[1] |
| Builder | Liverpool |
| Launched | 1797 |
| Fate | Burnt 1798 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ship |
| Tons burthen | 450,[2] or 566[3][1] (bm) |
| Propulsion | Sail |
| Complement | 80,[3] or 97[1] |
| Armament | 32 x 18-pounder guns[3] |
Parr was launched in 1797 at Liverpool as a slave ship. Lloyd's Register for 1797 has a Parr, 450 tons (bm), of Liverpool, Christian, master.[2]
Captain David Christian acquired a letter of marque on 5 December 1795,[3] and sailed for the Bight of Biafra and Gulf of Guinea Islands on 5 February 1798; he gathered his slaves at Bonny Island.[1]
Lloyd's List reported that Parr, Christian, master, caught fire and blew up in 1798, off the coast of Africa as she was sailing from there for the West Indies. Twenty-nine of her crew and some 300 slaves were saved.[4] Christian apparently died.[5] (Two or three years earlier he had been master of Othello when she too had caught fire while gathering slaves.) Other records indicate that Parr had a crew of 97 men and had embarked some 200 slaves. The surviving slaves were shipped on other vessels.[1]
Citations and references
Citations
- ^ a b c d e Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database Voyages: Parr.
- ^ a b Lloyd's Register (1797), Supplemental pages "P".
- ^ a b c d Letter of Marque, p.8 - accessed 25 July 2017.
- ^ Lloyd's List №3031.
- ^ Transactions (1991), p.110.
References
- Transactions of the Historic society of Lancashire and Chester. (1991). Vol. 140. (Alan Sutton). ISSN 0140-332X
- Inikori, Joseph E. (1996) "Measuring the unmeasured hazards of the Atlantic slave trade: documents relating to te British trade". Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer. VO.. 83, №312, pp.53-92.
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