Venus (1802 ship)

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For other ships with the same name, see Venus (ship).

History
United Kingdom
NameVenus
Acquired1802
Captured1804
General characteristics
Tons burthen70 (bm)
Sail planSchooner
Complement
  • 1802: 10
  • 1803: 22

Venus was a schooner of uncertain origin. She made one successful voyage in 1802–1803 as a slave ship. A French privateer captured Venus in 1804 on her second slave voyage.

Origins[]

The registers give inconsistent information. Venus first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1802 with the description that she was nine years old and American in origin.[1] She first appeared in the Register of Shipping (RS) in 1804 with her origin being given as a Spanish prize and a date of 1800.[2]

Slave ship[]

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1802 Hasler Orm & Co. Liverpool–Africa LR

1st slave voyage (1802–1803): Captain James Hasler sailed from Liverpool on 17 October 1802. Venus acquired slaves at Bassa, and arrived at Barbados on 3 May 1803 with 95 slaves. she sailed from Barbados on 12 May and arrived back at Liverpool on 8 June. She had left Liverpool with 10 crew members and she suffered no crew deaths on her voyage. While she was at Barbados Venus had been sold.[3]

2nd slave voyage (1803-Loss): Captain Hasler sailed from Liverpool on 26 October 1803. On 16 April 1804 the French privateer Uncle Thomas (or Mon Oncle Thomas), captured Venus, Haslar, master, on the Windward Coast.[4][a]

Notes, citations, and references[]

Notes

  1. ^ Mon Oncle Thomas was a three-masted privateer from La Rochelle. She was possibly the former Spanish Rosa, of 300 to 350 tonnes, and captured in 1793: length:35.40m; breadth 8.77;, and draft 1.78m. Her first cruise, under Jean Fizel, lasted from December 1799 to April 1800 with circa 150 men and 16 guns. For her second cruise, from September 1803 to January 1804, she was under André Papin, with 200 to 230 men and 26 guns (eighteen 8-pounder guns and eight 12-pounder carronades). On her third cruise, under Pierre d'Harambide, she carried the same armament and took place from February 1804 to June 1804. For her fourth cruise she was under Auguste Papin with 220 men and the same armament. She cruised from September 1804 to November 1804, when a British frigate captured her in the Atlantic.[5]

Citations

  1. ^ LR (1802), Supple. pages "V", Seq.No.V117.
  2. ^ RS (1804), Seq.No.V51.
  3. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (4763). 1 July 1803. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  4. ^ "SHIP NEWS". Lancaster Gazetter (Lancaster, England), 30 June 1804, Volume 4, Issue 159.
  5. ^ Demerliac (2003), p. 279, n°2208.

References

  • Demerliac, Alain (2003). La Marine du Consulat et du Premier Empire: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1800 à 1815 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 9782903179304. OCLC 492784876.
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