Echo (1790 ship)

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History
Great Britain
NameEcho
BuilderLiverpool
Launched1790
Captured1793
FateLast listed in 1796
General characteristics
Tons burthen127 (bm)

Echo was launched in 1791 in Liverpool as a slave ship. She made two complete voyages from Liverpool in the Atlantic triangular slave trade. On her third voyage a French privateer captured her, but a British letter of marque recaptured her. She did not return to the slave trade and was last listed in 1796.

Career[]

Echo first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1790.[1]

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1790 Rd Pinder Staniforth Liverpool–Africa LR

1st slave trading voyage (1790–1791): Captain Robert Pinder sailed from Liverpool on 9 June 1790. Echo arrived at St Vincent on 15 January 1791. She arrived back at Liverpool on 7 March. She had left Liverpool with 24 crew members and she suffered one crew death on her voyage.[2]

2nd slave trading voyage (1791–1792): Captain Pinder saiiled from Liverpool on 28 June 1791, bound for the Windward Coast. Echo started acquiring slaves on 19 August, first at Bassa, and then at Grand Mesurado. She sailed from Africa on 2 March 1792, and arrived at St Vincent on 16 April with 195 slaves. She sailed for Liverpool on 16 April and arrived there on 11 June. She had left Liverpool with 25 cre members and she suffered six crew deaths on her voyage.[3]

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1793 R.Pinder
W.Williams 		Staniforth Liverpool–Africa LR

3rd slave trading voyage (1792–1793): Captain William Williams sailed from Liverpool on 5 August 1792, bound for West Africa. At some point Captain John Kelly took command, possible with Captain Pinder having been in command between Williams and Kelly. Echo gathered slaves at Bassa, and then at Cape Mount.[4]

Capture: The French privateer Liberty, of Bordeaux, captured seven slave ships before July 1793: Echo, Union, Little Joe, Mercury, Hazard, Prosperity, and , Roper, master. Echo was captured off Cape Mount.[5][a]

Robust recaptured Echo and Little Joe. At the time of her capture Echo ha 120 slaves on board. [7] HMS Andromeda recaptured Prosperity; the cutter recaptured Mercury. Liberty ransomed Swift after plundering her.

Echo arrived at St Vincent in August 1793.[4]

Fate[]

Echo was last listed in 1796, but with information unchanged since 1793.

Notes, citations, and references[]

Notes

  1. ^ There was a Liberté, privateer from Bordeaux, that was commissioned in February 1793 under Jacques Laventy with 16 to 20 guns. She was sold in Guadeloupe in June 1793 by a Mister Mehy, and operated under a Captain Le Bas until 1794.[6]

Citations

  1. ^ LR (1791), Seq.No.E587.
  2. ^ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Echo voyage #81126.
  3. ^ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Echo voyage #81127.
  4. ^ a b Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Echo voyage #81128.
  5. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 5228. 26 July 1793. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  6. ^ Demerliac (1999), p. 266, n°2341.
  7. ^ Williams (1897), p. 313.

References

  • Demerliac, Alain (1999). La Marine de la Révolution: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1792 à 1799 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 9782906381247. OCLC 492783890.
  • Williams, Gomer (1897). History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque: With an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade. W. Heinemann.
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