Lord Duncan (1798 Liverpool ship)
| History | |
|---|---|
 Great Britain | |
| Name | Lord Duncan |
| Namesake | Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan |
| Owner | Samuel MacDowell (or McDowal) & Co. |
| Fate | Condemned 1800[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen | 101,[1] or 118[2] (bm) |
Lord Duncan was launched at Dublin in 1787 under another name. Between 1799 and 1800 she made one voyage as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She was sold in 1800 after she had delivered her captives.
Career[edit]
Lord Duncan first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1798.[2]
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1799 | C.King | J.Bold | Liverpool–Africa | LR |
Captain Charles King sailed from Liverpool on 7 March 1799.[1] King had been a surgeon on voyages transporting enslaved people between 1785 and 1799, but this was his first voyage as a master.[3] In 1799, 156 vessels sailed from English ports, bound for the trade in enslaved people; 134 of these vessels sailed from Liverpool.[4]
Lord Duncan stopped at Sierra Leone and she arrived at Kingston, Jamaica on 2 February 1800, with 127 captives acquired at the Congo River.[1] Before reaching Kingston she had stopped at Martinique. She had left Liverpool with 23 crew members and had suffered three crew deaths on her voyage.[1]
Although the registers carried Lord Duncan for some more years with unchanged data, her owners had sold her in the Americas after she had delivered her captives.[1]
Citations[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Lord Duncan voyage #82340.
- ^ a b LR (1798), Seq.No.L390.
- ^ Behrendt (1990), p. 98.
- ^ Williams (1897), p. 680.
References[edit]
- Behrendt, Stephen D. (1990). "The Captains in the British slave trade from 1785 to 1807" (PDF). Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. 140.
- Williams, Gomer (1897). History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque: With an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade. W. Heinemann.