Betsey (1787 ship)
History | |
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Great Britain | |
Name | Betsey |
Owner | |
Launched | 1787, Newfoundland[1] |
Captured | 10 August 1793 |
General characteristics | |
Tons burthen | 180,[1] or 194[4] (bm) |
Complement | 24–27 |
Armament | 4 guns |
Betsey was launched in 1787 at Newfoundland. She sailed to England and initially she traded between Bristol and the Mediterranean. In 1792 she made one complete voyage as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people before a French privateer captured her on her second slave voyage after she had embarked slaves in West Africa and was bringing them to Jamaica.
Career[]
Missing issues resulted in Betsey first appearing in Lloyd's Register (LR) in the issue for 1789.[1]
Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
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1790 | H.de Jersey J.Richards |
Mulloney Hunter & Co. |
Newfoundland–Bristol Bristol–Venice |
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1792 | J. Richards J. Spencer |
Hunter & Co. | Bristol–Straits Bristol–Africa |
LR; repairs 1792 |
Captain John Spencer sailed from Bristol on 19 March 1792. Betsey acquired her slaves at Bonny. She embarked 248 and arrived at Grenada on 31 August with 226, for a 9% mortality rate.[4] She had left Bristol with 24 crew members and she had 22 when she arrived in Grenada, two having died on the voyage; she discharged eight crewmen in Grenada.[2] She left Grenada on 15 September and arrived back at Bristol on 8 November.[4] By the time Betsey arrived back at Bristol she had suffered a total of three deaths among her crew.
Captain Spencer sailed from Bristol on 19 January 1793.[5]
Loss[]
In December 1793 Lloyd's List reported that a French privateer had captured Betsey, Spencer, master, as Betsey was sailing from Africa to Jamaica. The privateer sent Betsey into Saint Domingo.[6] The vessel with 283 slaves arrived at in Jacmel in August.[5] The privateer had captured her off Puerto Rico on 10 August.[3]
Citations[]
- ^ a b c LR (1889), Seq.No.B175.
- ^ a b Richardson (1996), p. 205.
- ^ a b Richardson (1996), p. 230.
- ^ a b c Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Betsey voyage #18174.
- ^ a b Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Betsey voyage #18175.
- ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 2567. 10 December 1793. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
References[]
- Richardson, David, ed. (1996). Bristol, Africa, and the Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade to America, Vo. 4 The Final Years, 1770-1807. Bristol Record Society, c/o Department of Historical Studies, Univ. of Bristol. ISBN 0 901538 17 5.
- 1787 ships
- Age of Sail merchant ships of England
- Bristol slave ships
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