Sally (1782 ship)

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

History
Great Britain
NameSally
BuilderLiverpool[1]
Launched1782[1][2]
FateCondemned 1805
General characteristics
Tons burthen459,[3][2] or 500[1] (bm)
Length113 ft 9 in (34.7 m)[4]
Beam30 ft 10 in (9.4 m)[4]
Complement
Armament
  • 1782:22 × 12-pounder guns + 8 × 12-pounder guns "of the New Construction"[1]
  • 1794:18 × 9-pounder guns[3]
  • 1795:18 × 9-pounder guns[3]
  • 1795:20 × 9-pounder guns[3]
NotesTwo decks & three masts[4]

Sally was launched in 1782 at Liverpool as a West Indiaman. She made one voyage as a whaler and one as an East Indiaman sailing to Bengal under charter to the British East India Company (EIC). After a storm damaged her in 1805 as she was on her way in 1805 from Liverpool to Africa as a slave ship she had to put into Barbados where she was condemned.

Career

Sally first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1782 with J.Corning, master, changing to J.Corbett, J.Chorley & Co., owners, and trade Liverpool–Tortola.[1]

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1783 J.Corbett
J.Woods 		J.Chorley Liverpool–Tortola LR
1792 J.Woods
J.Meader 		J.Chorley Liverpool–Southern Fishery LR

Whaling voyage (1791–1792): Captain John Meader sailed from Liverpool in 1791 (probably on 29 March 1791), bound for Walvis Bay. Sally returned on 19 November 1792.[5]

After Sally returned from whaling, Captain John Woods resumed command. On 11 January 1794 Captain John Woods acquired a letter of marque.[3][a]

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1794 J.Woods J.Chorley Liverpool–Tortola LR; repairs 1790 and 1792

EIC voyage (1795–1796): Captain Robert Brown acquired a letter of marque on 7 August 1795. Before she sailed, Sally underwent repairs. Sally sailed from Liverpool on 7 September, bound for Bengal. She was at Rio de Janeiro on 14 November, and arrived at Calcutta on 24 February 1796. Homeward bound, she was at Culpee on 2 April, reached St Helena on 23 July and Crookhaven on 27 November, before arriving at the Downs on 12 December.[7]

After Sally returned to England, Captain John Woods resumed command. He acquired a letter of marque on 12 January 1798.[3]

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1797 J.Brown
J.Woods 		J.Chorley Liverpool–Bengal
Liverpool–Tortola 		LR; repairs 1790, 1792, & 1795
1800 J.Woods J.Chorley Liverpool–Tortola LR; repairs 1790, 1792, & 1795
1805 J.Thompson
C.Kincale 		Holind & Co. Cork
Liverpool–Africa 		LR; repairs 1790, 1792, & 1795

Fate

Captain Charles Kneale sailed Sally from Liverpool on 5 August 1805. The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database states that she was "shipwrecked or destroyed, before slaves embarked".[8] Lloyd's List (LL) reported on 10 December that Sally, Neale, master, from Liverpool to Africa, had put into Barbados dis-masted and that she had been condemned.[9]

Sally did not appear on the lists of vessels cleared to Africa from ports in England.[10] In 1805, 30 British enslaving vessels were lost, five of them on the outbound leg of their voyages.[11] During the period 1793 to 1807, war, rather than maritime hazards or resistance by the captives, was the greatest cause of vessel losses among British enslaving vessels.[12]

Notes

  1. ^ One source lists the possibility that there was a second whaling voyage, but acknowledges that it cannot conclusively identify either as a whaling or sealing voyage.[6]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d e LR (1782), Seq.№S630.
  2. ^ a b Hackman (2001), p. 242.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Letter of Marque, p.85 - accessed 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  4. ^ a b c Craig & Jarvis (1967), p. 40.
  5. ^ British Southern Whale Fishery – Voyages: Sally.
  6. ^ Clayton (2014), p. 211.
  7. ^ British Library: Sally.
  8. ^ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Sally voyage #83492.
  9. ^ LL 10 December 105 №4278.
  10. ^ Inikori (1996), p. 86.
  11. ^ Inikori (1996), p. 62.
  12. ^ Inikori (1996), p. 58.

References

  • Clayton, Jane M (2014). Ships employed in the South Sea Whale Fishery from Britain: 1775–1815: An alphabetical list of ships. Berforts Group. ISBN 9781908616524.
  • Craig, Robert; Jarvis, Rupert (1967). Liverpool Registry of Merchant Ships. Series 3. Vol. 15. Manchester University Press for the Chetham Society.
  • Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-96-7.
  • 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. doi:10.3406/outre.1996.3457.