History | |
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France | |
Launched | 1775 |
Captured | c.1783 |
Great Britain | |
Name | Enterprize |
Acquired | 1783 |
Renamed |
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Fate | Wrecked 1791 |
General characteristics | |
Tons burthen | 278,[1] or 294,[2] or 300[3] (bm) |
Armament | 6 guns |
King George was launched in France in 1775 under another name, possibly as Enterprize. She became a Bristol-based slave ship. Under the name Sally she made three slave-trading voyages between 1783 and 1786. Then from 1787 on as King George she made three more complete slave-trading voyages. She was lost at Barbados in 1791 on her seventh voyage with the loss of 280 of the 360 slaves on board.