Accomplished Quaker was a French vessel that the British captured circa 1795. She first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in the volume for 1795.[1]
| History | |
|---|---|
 Great Britain | |
| Name | Accomplished Quaker |
| Launched | 1789 |
| Acquired | 1795 by purchase of a prize |
| Fate | Captured circa 1795 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen | 189[1][2] (bm) |
| Complement | 10[2] |
| Armament | 8 × 6&9-pounder guns[2] |
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1795 | M.Walker | R.Johnson | Liverpool–Africa | LR; damages repaired 1795 |
Captain Musgrave Walker acquired a letter of marque on 22 August 1795.[2] He sailed from Liverpool on 19 September 1795.[3] A French privateer captured Accomplished Quaker and took her into Gorée before she could gather any slaves.[4]
Accomplished Quaker did not appear on the lists of vessels cleared out of English ports bound for Africa.[5]
In 1796, 22 British slave ships were lost. Three of these were lost on their way to Africa.[6] War, not maritime hazards nor slave resistance, was the greatest cause of vessel losses among British slave vessels.[7]
Citations
edit- ^ a b LR (1795), Seq.No.A691.
- ^ a b c d "Letter of Marque, p.47 - accessed 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ^ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Accomplished Quaker voyage #80013.
- ^ Lloyd's List (LL), 4 March 1796, №2799.
- ^ Inikori (1996), p. 84.
- ^ Inikori (1996), p. 62.
- ^ Inikori (1996), p. 58.
References
edit- Inikori, Joseph (1996). "Measuring the unmeasured hazards of the Atlantic slave trade: Documents relating to the British trade". Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer. 83 (312): 53–92.