Princess Royal (1783 ship)
| History | |
|---|---|
 England | |
| Name: | Princess Royal |
| Owner: | Peter Baker & John Dawson, Liverpool merchants |
| Builder: | Liverpool |
| Launched: | 15 August 1783 |
| Fate: | Condemned 1789 after grounding |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Tons burthen: | 596, or 600[2] (bm) |
| Length: | 127 ft 0 in (38.7 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft 6 in (10.2 m) (above the wales) |
| Depth of hold: | 6 ft 0 in (1.8 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 47, or 83[3] |
| Armament: | 10 × 9-pounder guns[2] |
| Notes: | Frigate-built ship of two decks and three masts; coppered in 1783 |
Princess Royal was a large, frigate-built ship launched at Liverpool in 1783. She made several voyages as a slave trader before she grounded in 1789 and was condemned.
Career
Princess Royal enters Lloyd's Register in 1783 with J. Forbes, master. However, Captain William Sherwood was Princess Royal's master for the entirety of her career as a slaver.[2] He gathered slaves at the Bight of Biafra and Gulf of Guinea islands and took them to Havana.[4]
In October 1785 Sherwood delivered 480 slaves to Havana.[5]
In 1787 Princess Royal embarked 798 slaves. In 1788 she embarked 771.[6] Both of these voyages began in the April; the first finished in December, and the second in January 1789.[7]Lloyd's List had reported that on 28 August 1788 she had arrived at Trinidad with about 800 slaves for Havana.[8]
Fate
Princess Royal returned from Havana in January 1789. A heavy gale on 24 January drove her from her moorings on to the shore, where she filled with water.[9] She was surveyed and condemned.[1]
Citations and references
Citations
- 1 2 Craig and Jarvis (1967), p. 78.
- 1 2 3 Lloyd's Register (1783), Seq.№P534.
- ↑ Scharz (2008), pp. 20 & 15.
- ↑ Thomas Cozens: Liverpool Slave Ship Voyages Database
- ↑ Schwarz (2008), p.24.
- ↑ Devine (2015), p.150.
- ↑ Schwarz (2008), p.12.
- ↑ Lloyd's List №2033.
- ↑ Lloyd's List №2059.
References
- Craig, Robert, & Rupert Jarvis (1967) Liverpool Registry of Merchant Ships. (Manchester University Press for the Chetham Society), Series 3, vol. 15.
- Devine, Tom M. (2015) Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past. (Edinburgh University Press). ISBN 9780748698097
- Schwarz, Suzanne (2008) Slave Captain: The Career of James Irving in the Liverpool Slave Trade. (Oxford University Press). ISBN 9781846310676