Accomplished Quaker (ship)
Several vessels were named Accomplished Quaker in the late 18th and early 19th Century. Owners of slave ships sometimes named their vessels Accomplished Quaker (British), or Willing Quaker (United States), or just Quaker (British) e.g. Quaker, as a barb aimed at the Quaker-led Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade and the role of the Quakers in the movement to abolish the slave trade.[1]
- Accomplished Quaker (1795 ship) was a French vessel of 189 tons (bm) launched in 1789 and captured by the British circa 1795. She first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1795 with M.Walker, master, R.Johnson, owner, and trade Liverpool–Africa. She had had damages repaired in 1795.[2] Captain Musgrave Walker acquired a letter of marque on 22 August 1795.[3] He sailed from Liverpool on 19 September 1795.[4] A French privateer captured Accomplished Quaker and took her into Gorée before she could gather any slaves.[5]
- Accomplished Quaker (1801 ship) was a French vessel of 190 tons (bm) that the British captured circa 1801. She first appeared in LR for 1801 with S.Truttle, master, Mills, owner. and trade London–Baltic.[6] LL reported on 20 November 1804 that as she was sailing from Archangel to London she wrecked near Drontheim. Her crew was saved.[7]
Citations
- ^ The Economist (22 February 2007), "Breaking the chains".
- ^ LR (1795), " supple. pages, Seq.№A6911.
- ^ "Letter of Marque, p.47 - accessed 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ^ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Accomplished Quaker voyage #80013.
- ^ Lloyd's List (LL), 4 March 1796, №2799.
- ^ LR (1801" "A" supple. pages, Seq.№A59.
- ^ LL 20 November 1804, №4507.
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