Career
Harriot first appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1804. [2]
1st voyage transporting enslaved people (1804): Captain James Clark acquired a letter of marque on 21 January 1804. [1] He sailed from London on 2 February. Harriot acquired captives on the Gold Coast. She arrived at Suriname on 27 June 1804, with 260 captives. She sailed from Suriname on 13 August, and arrived back in London on 29 September. [3]
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source |
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| 1804 | J.Clark
Sutherland | Parry&Co. | London–Africa | LR |
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2nd voyage transporting enslaved people (1804–1805): Captain Stewart Sutherland sailed from London on 3 December 1804. She acquired captives at Accra and arrived at Demerara on 20 June 1805, with 273. She left Demerara on 24 July. [4] At Demerara she had taken on part of the cargo of Rose, Mansfield, master. Rose had run aground and been condemned. Harriet brought her portion of the cargo to England. [5] Harriot arrived back in London on 30 September. [4]
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source |
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| 1806 | Sutherland
J.Clark | Parr & Co.
Lumley | London–West Indies | LR |
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3rd voyage transporting enslaved people (1806–1807): Captain James Clark acquired a letter of marque on 11 January 1806. [1] He sailed from London on 22 January. Harriot acquired captives at Accra and Wiamba and arrived at Demerara on 9 July, with 275 captives. [6] As Harriet was on her way back to England from Demerara, she ran onshore at Grenada and had to unload her cargo. [7] Harriot arrived back in London on 27 January 1807. [6]
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source |
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| 1807 | J.Clark
Mitchelson | Lumley | London
London–West Indies | LR |
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4th voyage transporting enslaved people (1807–1808): The Act for the abolition of the slave trade had passed Parliament in March 1807, and took effect on 1 May 1807. However, Captain Mitchelson Harriot sailed from London on 23 March 1807, well before the deadline. Harriot acquired captives at Accra. She arrived at Barbados on 24 December, with 255 captives; there she landed 63. At some point Captain Jacob Williamson replaced Mitchelson. Harriot sailed on to Demerara with the remaining captives. She arrived back in London on 24 June 1808. [8]
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
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| 1808 | Mitchelson | Lumley | London–West Indies | LR; damages repaired 1807 |
| 1809 | P.Clark | Lumley | London–Barbados | LR; damages repaired 1807 |
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Fate
Friendship, Williams, arrived in London on 21 April 1809 from Hayti. She had sailed from Port-au-Prince on 4 March in company with Harriet, Clarke, master. They had parted on 20 April. [9]
As Harriet was returning from Port-au-Prince in April, the French privateer Rodeur captured her and took her into Bayonne. [lower-alpha 1] The "English ship, of 280 tons, Coppered and Armed with 14 guns (14-pounders)," was carrying a valuable cargo of coffee and other goods. Rodeur took Harriet into Bayonne. [10]
Caledonia was a Spanish vessel that the British captured in 1804 and that new owners renamed. She made two complete voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. In 1809 she disappeared from online records.
Byam was a snow launched at Oban, or possibly Padstow, in 1800. She made four voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. The French captured and burnt her in late 1807 or early 1808 as she was about to deliver the captives from her fifth voyage.
Minerva was built in the Americas in 1791 and taken in prize from the Spanish. She made six voyages from London as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She is last listed in 1813 but with data stale since her last voyage transporting enslaved people in 1807.
Ariadne was built in 1795 at Newbury, Massachusetts, probably under another name. She in 1801 became a Liverpool-based slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She made two voyages transporting enslaved people before a French, and later a Dutch privateer, captured her in 1804 while she was acquiring captives on her third voyage. However, a Liverpool-based vessel recaptured her. Then in 1806, a French privateer captured her and took her into Guadeloupe while Ariadne was on her fourth voyage transporting captives.
Aurora was launched at Philadelphia in 1779. She did not appear in British registers until 1800. She then made five voyages from London as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She was damaged and condemned at Jamaica in 1807 after having landed the captives from her fifth voyage.
Alexander was launched in France or Spain in 1797, probably under another name, and taken in prize circa 1799, when she was lengthened and raised. She was registered at Liverpool in 1801 and proceeded to make six voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She then sailed to Brazil and the West Indies and was last listed in 1809.
William Heathcote was launched in Liverpool in 1800. She made one voyage as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. Next, a French privateer captured her in a single-ship action, and the British Royal Navy recaptured her. She became a West Indiaman before she again made an enslaving voyage, one of the last such legal voyages. After British participation in the trans-Atlantic slave trade ended, she became a West Indiaman again; she then sailed to Brazil and as a transport. She was wrecked in July 1816.
Westmoreland was launched on the Thames in 1791. She made two voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. Between these voyages she cruized as a privateer for some months. She then traded between Britain and the Mediterranean. She was last listed in 1814.
Harriot was launched in America in 1803, possibly under another name. In 1806 she made a voyage as a slave ship. In 1807 she started a second such voyage, one of the last legal such voyages, but a French privateer captured her before she could deliver to the British West Indies the slaves she had acquired.
Harriot was launched in Spain in 1794, almost surely under another name, and taken in prize in 1797. She made two voyages as a London-based slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. Under new ownership, she then made three voyages as a whaler in the British southern whale fishery. A privateer captured her as she was returning from her third whale-hunting voyage but the British Royal Navy recaptured her. After her recapture she became a merchantman. The Spanish seized her in the Pacific; she was condemned at Lima, Peru in March-April 1809, as a smuggler.
Harriot was launched in Liverpool in 1786. For many years she was a West Indiaman, sailing between Liverpool and Barbados. In 1796 a French frigate captured her, but the British Royal Navy quickly recaptured her. She became a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. At the beginning of her of her first slave trading voyage a French privateer captured her, and again the Royal Navy quickly recaptured her. She made five slave trading voyages in all. Thereafter she traded with South America. She was last listed in 1814 with stale data.
Thames was launched at Southampton in 1790. Until 1798 she sailed across the Atlantic, trading primarily with The Bahamas. She then became a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She made seven voyages transporting enslaved people. After the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807, Thames returned to trading with the West Indies. A French privateer captured Thames on 17 July 1811 and burnt her.
Beaver was launched in 1796 at Liverpool. She made seven complete voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved persons. She was captured and retaken once, in 1804, and captured a second time in 1807, during her eighth voyage.
Princess Amelia was launched in 1798 at Liverpool. She made eight complete voyages as a Liverpool-based slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. After the end of British participation in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, she became a merchantman. She was probably the Princess Amelia, from Liverpool, that was lost in 1810.
Macclesfield was launched at Lancaster in 1803. She made three voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. After the end of British participation in the trans-Atlantic slave trade she became a West Indiaman. She was wrecked in 1809.
Argus was launched in 1797 in the United States, possibly under another name, and taken as a French prize circa 1807. She entered United Kingdom records in 1807 when she became a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. After her one slave trading voyage she continued trading with Africa. She was condemned in March 1810.
Ann was launched at Chester in 1792 as a West Indiaman. From 1796 she made nine complete voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She participated in several single ship actions. On her first voyage she repelled an attack by a French privateer. On her second a privateer captured her but she was recaptured. On her ninth voyage a French privateer again captured her, but this time her captor plundered and then released her. She sank on 24 May 1810 in the Old Dock at Liverpool, but was salvaged.
Nelly was launched at Liverpool in 1798. She initially sailed as a West Indiaman. From 1803 she made two complete voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. Spanish privateers captured her in 1805 while she was on her third voyage after she had embarked captives.
Laurel's origins are ambiguous. She first appeared in online British sources in 1802. She made three voyages from Liverpool to Africa. On the first she apparently was on a trading voyage. The second was a complete voyage as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. During this voyage she was involved in two sanguinary engagements with French vessels, the second of which resulted in the death of her master. She set out in 1805 on a second voyage to transport enslaved people, but a French squadron captured her before she had embarked any captives.
Urania was launched in 1795 in Spain and taken in prize. Starting in 1800 she made three voyages from Liverpool as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. During the third voyage she was involved in two engagements with French vessels. She was so damaged in the second of these engagements that she was condemned in 1804 after she landed her captives at Demerara.
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