Harriot (1806 ship)

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Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svgUnited Kingdom
NameHarriot
BuilderAmerica
Launched1803
AcquiredCirca 1806
Captured1808
General characteristics
Tons burthen205 [1] (bm)
Armament4 × 4-pounder guns + 12 × 12-pounder carronades [1]

Harriot (or Harriet) 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 first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1806. [1]

YearMasterOwnerTradeSource
1806J.WoodrickShaw & Co.Liverpool–AfricaLR

1st slave voyage (1806–1807): Captain John Woolrich sailed from Liverpool on 20 February 1806, bound for Lagos Onim. After having acquired her slaves, Harriot stopped in at Prince's Island. She arrived at Demerara on 3 October 1806 with 240 slaves. [2] The 240 slaves were offered for sale on 11 October. Captain P. Stuart replaced Woolrich at some point, and she arrived at Demerara under Stuart's command. [3] Harriot cleared outbound on 12 December and sailed from Demerara on 20 December under the command of Captain Peter Stewart. [4] She arrived back at Liverpool on 16 February 1807. She had left Liverpool with 34 crew members and she suffered nine crew deaths on her voyage. [2]

The Act for the abolition of the slave trade had passed Parliament in March 1807 and took effect on 1 May 1807. However, apparently Harriot had received clearance to sail before the deadline. Thus, when she sailed on 9 July, she did so legally. (The last vessel to sail legally was Kitty's Amelia, which sailed on 27 July, having received clearance to sail on 28 April.)

2nd slave voyage (1807–capture): Captain James Irwin sailed from Liverpool on 9 July 1807, bound for Loango. [5] In February 1808 or so, the privateer Général Ernouf captured Harriot, as Harriet was sailing from Africa to the West Indies, and possibly sent her into Cayenne. [6]

The LR volume for 1809 carried the annotation "captured" beneath her name. [7]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 LR (1806), Supple. pages "H", Seq.No.H8.
  2. 1 2 Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Harriot voyage #81739.
  3. ↑ Essequebo and Demerary Gazette 11 October 1806, No.198.
  4. ↑ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 4128. 20 February 1807. hdl:2027/uc1.c2735023 . Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  5. ↑ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Harriot voyage #81740.
  6. ↑ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 4248. 29 April 1808. hdl:2027/uc1.c2735023 . Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  7. ↑ LR (1809), Seq.No.H176.
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