Chambers (1794 ship)

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

History
Great Britain
Name	Chambers
Builder	Liverpool [1]
Launched	1794 [1]
Fate	Foundered March 1795
General characteristics
Tons burthen	198 [1] [2] (bm)
Complement	20 [2]
Armament	14 × 4-pounder guns [2]

Chambers was a ship launched in 1794 in Liverpool. Captain Theophilus Bent acquired a letter of marque on 10 February 1794. Chambers first appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1794. ^[1]

Year	Master	Owner	Trade	Source
1794	T.Bent	Rt.Bent	Liverpool–Africa	LR

A trade of Liverpool to Africa often signals participation in the Atlantic triangular slave trade. On the one hand, Chambers does not appear the pre-eminent database of trans-Atlantic slave voyages. ^[3] On the other hand, Chambers, Bent, master, was lost off Wexford, Ireland in 1795 while sailing from Jamaica to Liverpool, ^[4] which would represent the third segment of the triangular trade. She had arrived in Jamaica, from Africa, circa October 1794, a voyage that would represent the second leg of the trade.

Citations

1. LR (1794), Seq.No.C534.
2. "Letter of Marque, p.56 - accessed 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
3. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Voyages: Chambers.
4. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 2699. 17 March 1795. hdl:2027/hvd.32044105233118.