Amphitrite (1796 ship)

For other ships with the same name, see Amphitrite (ship).

History
Great Britain
NameAmphitrite
NamesakeAmphitrite
Launched1796, Kingston upon Hull
FateCaptured 1799
General characteristics
Tons burthen183,[1] or 194[2] (bm)
Complement38[2]
Armament
  • 1797:4 × 3-pounder guns[3]
  • 1800: 12 × 12-pounder guns[1]

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]

  1. ^ a b c RS (1800), Seq.№A339.
  2. ^ a b c Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Amphitrite voyage #80228.
  3. ^ a b LR (1797), "A" supple. pages, Seq.№A61.
  4. ^ Genuine Dicky Sam (1884), pp. 124–125.
  5. ^ Williams (1897), p. 680.
  6. ^ Lloyd's List 4 February 1800, №4021.
  7. ^ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Adriana voyage #80049.
  8. ^ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Adriana voyage #80050.
  9. ^ Inikori (1996), p. 62.
  10. ^ Inikori (1996), p. 58.


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