Accomplished Quaker (1795 ship)

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

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]

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. LR (1795), Seq.No.A691.
2. "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.