Aggie (1777 ship)

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

History
Great Britain
NameAggie, or Agie
BuilderLiverpool
Launched1777
RenamedSpy (1781)
Captured4 June 1782
General characteristics
Tons burthen80,[1] or 110[2] ( (bm)
Armament14 × 4-pounder guns

Aggie (or Agie), was launched in Liverpool in 1777. She traded locally until 1781 when her owners renamed her Spy. She briefly became a privateer, and then a slave ship, engaged in the triangular trade in enslaved people. The French Navy captured her in 1782 in the West Indies as she was arriving to deliver her cargo of slaves on her first slave-trading voyage.

Career

Agie first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1778.[3]

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1778 R.Downes R.Wicksted Liverpool–Limerick LR
1779 R.Downes R.Wicksted Liverpool–Elsinor LR
1780 R.Downes R.Wicksted Galway Bay LR
1781 R.Downes
Burrows 		Wickstead Liverpool–Limerick LR; "now the Spy"
1781 J.Burrows R.Wichfield Liverpool privateer
Liverpool–Africa 		LR; raised 1780
1782 J.Burrows Wickstead Liverpool–Africa LR; ex-Aggie

Slave trading voyage: Captain John Burrows sailed Spy from Liverpool in July 1781, bound for West Africa.[1]

Fate

On 4 June 1782 two French frigates captured Spy, Burrows, master, and took her into Dominica. She was carrying 250 captives and six tons of ivory.[4][5]

Citations

  1. ^ a b Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Spy voyage #83594.
  2. ^ LR (1781), "S" supple. pages, Seq.No.S520.
  3. ^ LR (1778), Seq.No.A98.
  4. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 1396. 13 September 1782. hdl:2027/uc1.c3049061.
  5. ^ Williams (1897), p. 294.

References

  • Williams, Gomer (1897). History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque: With an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade. W. Heinemann.