Accomplished Quaker (1795 ship)

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

History
Great Britain
NameAccomplished Quaker
Launched1789
Acquired1795 by purchase of a prize
FateCaptured circa 1795
General characteristics
Tons burthen189[1][2] (bm)
Complement10[2]
Armament8 × 6&9-pounder guns[2]

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]

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

  1. ^ a b LR (1795), Seq.No.A691.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Accomplished Quaker voyage #80013.
  4. ^ Lloyd's List (LL), 4 March 1796, №2799.
  5. ^ Inikori (1996), p. 84.
  6. ^ Inikori (1996), p. 62.
  7. ^ Inikori (1996), p. 58.

References

  • 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.