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France | |
Name | General Dumourier |
Launched | 1790 |
Captured | 1793 |
Great Britain | |
Name | Port au Prince |
Acquired | 1793 or early 1794 by purchase |
Fate | Captured and burned 29 November 1806 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Tons burthen | 446 (1790–1795), and 466[2] (1796–1805)[a] (bm) |
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Port au Prince was built in France in 1790. The British Royal Navy captured her in 1793 off Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Her original name was General Dumourier; her new owners named her for her place of capture. She became a letter of marque, slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people, and privateer cum whaler. In 1806 she anchored at a Tongan island where the local inhabitants massacred most of her crew and then scuttled her.
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