Tarleton (1789 ship)

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History
Great Britain
NameTarleton
BuilderLiverpool
Launched1789
FateCaptured 1797
French Navy EnsignFrance
Acquired1797 by capture
FateSold 1803?
United Kingdom
NameTarleton
Acquiredc.1803 probably by purchase
FateProbably wrecked 1818; last listed 1818 (LR) & 1824 (RS);
General characteristics
Tons burthen286,[1] or 298,[2] or 299,[3] or 300[4](bm)
PropulsionSail
Complement
Armament
  • 1793:22 × 12, 9, & 4-pounder guns[1]
  • 1794:18 × 12&9-pounder guns[1]
  • 1805:10 × 4&3-pounder guns[3]
  • 1814:10 × 9-pounder guns[4]

Tarleton (or Tarlton) was launched in 1789 at Liverpool for Tarleton & Co., a Liverpool firm that had been in the slave trade for three generations. She traded with the West Indies and made one voyage as a slaver. The French captured her after she had landed her slaves. She returned to English hands c.1803 and sailed as a merchantman for some years thereafter. She appears to have been wrecked in April 1818.

Career[]

Tarleton's master was J. Gilbody.[5]

On 5 August she was on her way from Grenada to Liverpool when a lightning strike damaged her, forcing her to go to St Thomas for repairs.[6]

Privateer[]

Tarleton and Samuel Gilbody received a letter of marque on 31 May 1793.[1] The size of the crew and the number of guns suggests that Tarletton would operate as a privateer.

On 16 July Tarleton was in company with the privateer Eliza, of Liverpool, Canny, master, at

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32°30′N 18°40′W / 32.500°N 18.667°W / 32.500; -18.667. They had with them a French privateer of eight guns and 70 (or 72) men that they had captured a few days earlier.[7] This was Guerrier, of Bayonne.[8] Guerrier was 21 days out of Bayonne and had taken nothing.[9]

On 27 January 1794 Tarleton and Gilbody received a new letter of marque. Now she carried slightly fewer guns, and she had a crew of 36 men, half the size of her earlier crew,[1] suggesting that she had stopped privateering.

Slave ship[]

In 1796 her master changed to Thomas Cannell, her primary owner to Daniel Backhouse (secondary remained Tarleton), and she became a slaver, making one voyage from the Bight of Benin and Gulf of Guinea islands to Jamaica. She sailed from Liverpool on 2 June 1796, and arrived at Kingston, Jamaica, on 10 July 1797. She had embarked 448 slaves and she disembarked 423, or a loss rate of 5.6%. She also lost 6 of her 35 crew on the voyage.[10]

Capture[]

The French captured Tarleton in 1797 after she had landed her slaves, but before she was able to return to Liverpool.[11][10]

British merchantman[]

Tarleton reappears in Lloyd's Register in 1804 with Stoddard, master, Phynn & Co., owner, and trade London–Demerara. She had also undergone a thorough repair.[2] There is no evidence that Tarleton was a prize and the timing suggests that she may have been purchased during the Peace of Amiens.

Year Master Owner Trade Source & Notes
1805 Stodhart Clark London–Demerara Register of Shipping (RS)[3]
1810 R. Conner
Harmann 		Stitt & Co. London–Jamaica
London–Charleston 		Lloyd's Register (LR); damage repaired 1808 & thorough repair 1809
1814 J. Payne Mercer Liverpool–Africa RS; almost rebuilt 1813[4]
1820 R.P. Jackson R.P. Jackson Liverpool–The Brazils RS

Fate[]

Tarleton, of Liverpool, Jefferson, master, was reported to have been at

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6°N 22°W / 6°N 22°W / 6; -22 on 31 May 1817.[12] Lloyd's List reported that a gale had driven Tarleton, Jefferson, master on shore at the Cape of Good Hope. She had come from Rio de Janeiro. It was not clear how badly damaged she was.[13] She was consequently condemned on the beach. Her cargo, with the exception of some trifling accidents, was saved.[14]

There is no other Tarleton in Lloyd's Register or the Register of Shipping than the Tarleton of this article. Tarleton is last listed in Lloyd's Register in 1818. The Register of Shipping last listed her in 1824, but noted that she had been last surveyed in 1817.

Citations and references[]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Letter of Marque, p.88 – Retrieved 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  2. ^ a b Lloyd's Register (1804), "T" Supple. pages, Seq.№T64.
  3. ^ a b c Register of Shipping (1805), Seq.№T11.
  4. ^ a b c Register of Shipping "T" Supple.
  5. ^ Lloyd's Register, Seq. №T360.
  6. ^ Lloyd's List ₦2126.
  7. ^ Lloyd's List №5232.
  8. ^ Williams (1897), p. 316.
  9. ^ "Ship News", Times (London, England), 16 August 1793; pg. 3; Issue 2754.
  10. ^ a b Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Tarleton voyage #83711.
  11. ^ Wilkins (2000), p. 75.
  12. ^ Lloyd's List №5196.
  13. ^ Lloyd's List №5296.
  14. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5297). 14 July 1818.

References

  • Wilkins, Frances (2000). 2,000 Manx Mariners: An Eighteenth Century Survey. Wyre Forest Press. ISBN 978-1897725146.
  • 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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