Resource (1798 ship)

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History
Great Britain
NameResource
BuilderBermuda[1]
Launched1792[1]
CapturedDecember 1805
General characteristics
Tons burthen200,[1] or 236[2] (bm)
Complement20[2]
Armament
  • 1801:10 × 6-pounder guns[2]
  • 1806:16 × 6-pounder guns

Resource was launched at Bermuda in 1792, possibly under another name, and sailed from Liverpool from 1798 on. She made four voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. The French Navy captured her in 1805 at the very beginning of her fifth voyage.

Career[]

Resource first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1798.[1]

Year Master Owner Trade Source & notes
1798 E.Clark Tarleton Liverpool–Africa LR; lengthened 1797

1st slave trading voyage (1798–1799): Captain Edward Clark sailed from Liverpool 2 April 1798. Resource acquired her slaves at Malembo. She arrived at Kingston on 6 December with 363 slaves. She sailed for Liverpool on 12 February 1799 and arrived back there on 9 April. She had sailed from Liverpool with 42 crew members and suffered three crew deaths on the voyage.[3]

2nd slave trading voyage (1799–1800): Captain Clark sailed from Liverpool on 11 August 1799. She acquired her slaves at Malembo and arrived at Kingston on 30 April 1800 with 359 slaves. She sailed for Liverpool on 21 July and arrived back there on 21 September. She had left Liverpool with 35 crew members and suffered six crew deaths on the voyage.[4]

3rd slave trading voyage (1801–1802): Captain Edward Clark acquired a letter of marque on 25 March 1801.[2] He sailed from Liverpool on 15 April. Resource acquired her slaves in Africa and arrived at Trinidad on 1 June 1802 with 251 slaves. She sailed from Trinidad on 1 August and arrived back at Liverpool on 22 September. She had left Liverpool with 32 crew members and she suffered 11 crew deaths on the voyage.[5]

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1804 E.Clarke
J.Critney 		Rigg&Co.
M'Dowell&Co. 		Liverpool-Africa LR

It is not clear where Resource sailed in 1803–1804. She did not appear in Lloyd's List's ship arrival and departure (SAD) data during those years.

4th slave trading voyage (1804–1805): Captain Thomas Moffitt sailed from Liverpool 4 November 1804. She acquired her slaves at the Congo River and sailed from Africa on 21 March 1805. She arrived at Charleston on 11 May with 251 slaves. She sailed from Charleston on 11 May and arrived back at Liverpool on 22 June. She left Liverpool with 32 crew members and suffered three crew deaths on the voyage.[6]

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1805 J.Cretney
E.Almon 		M'Dowal Liverpool–Africa LR
1806 E.Alman M'Dowall Liverpool–Africa LR

5th slave trading voyage and capture: Captain Enock Almon sailed from Liverpool on 16 September 1805.[7]

Admiral Linois's squadron was on its way back to France from the Indian Ocean when it captured Rolla on either 22 November 1805 or 5 December.[8] On 18 April 1806 Lloyd's List (LL) reported that a privateer had captured Rolla, of Liverpool, and another vessel, off Loango.[9] The other vessel was Resource, of Liverpool, which Marengo, Linois's flagship, had captured on 8 December off the coast of Africa. Marengo had sent Resource to the Cape of Good Hope, not realising that the British were about to capture the Cape.[10] Diomede and captured Resource as she approached Table Bay.[11][12] The LR volume for 1807 carried the annotation "captured" by her name.[13]

Citations and references[]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d LR (1798), Seq.No.R207.
  2. ^ a b c d "Letter of Marque, p.84 - accessed 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  3. ^ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Resource voyage #83316.
  4. ^ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Resource voyage #83317.
  5. ^ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Resource voyage #83318.
  6. ^ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Resource voyage #83319.
  7. ^ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Resource voyage #83320.
  8. ^ Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 222.
  9. ^ LL №4045.
  10. ^ LL №4042.
  11. ^ Grainger (2015), pp. 37–9.
  12. ^ Naval Chronicle, Vol. 16, p.80.
  13. ^ LR (1807), Seq.No.R188.

References

  • Grainger, J.D. (2015). British Campaigns in the South Atlantic 1805-1807. Pen and Sword. ISBN 9781783463640.
  • Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.
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