Roe (1797 ship)

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History
French Navy EnsignFrance
Launched1787[1]
Capturedc.1797
Great Britain
NameRoe
Acquired1797 by purchase of a prize
Captured1798
General characteristics
Tons burthen210,[1] or 241[2] (bm)
Complement15[2]
Armament
  • 1797:2 × 9-pounder + 4 × 6-pounder guns[1]
  • 1797:10 × 6-pounder guns[2]

Roe was launched in France in 1787, almost certainly under another name. She first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) with Carlisle, master, John Shaw, owner, and trade Liverpool–Africa.[1]

Captain Ledwick (or Ludwick) Carlisle acquired a letter of marque on 24 April 1797.[2] He sailed from Liverpool on 11 May 1797, bound to West Africa to acquire slaves. Roe stopped in Barbados and then arrived at Demerara on 1 March 1798 and there landed 394 slaves. She had left Liverpool with 30 crew members and she suffered two crew deaths on the voyage.[3]

Capture: Lloyd's List (LL) reported on 3 August 1798 that Roe, Carlisle, master, from Demerara to Liverpool, had been captured and taken into Guadeloupe.[4]

In 1801 John Shaw would own a second slave ship named Roe that would make four slave trading voyages.

Citations[]

  1. ^ a b c d LR (1797), Seq.№%225.
  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 – Roe voyage #83369.
  4. ^ LL 3 August 1798, №3022/
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