Sally (1782 ship)

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British-Red-Ensign-1707.svgGreat Britain
NameSally
BuilderLiverpool [1]
Launched1782 [1] [2]
FateCondemned 1805
General characteristics
Tons burthen459, [3] [2] or 500 [1] (bm)
Length113 ft 9 in (34.7 m) [4]
Beam30 ft 10 in (9.4 m) [4]
Complement
Armament
  • 1782:22 × 12-pounder guns + 8 × 12-pounder guns "of the New Construction" [1]
  • 1794:18 × 9-pounder guns [3]
  • 1795:18 × 9-pounder guns [3]
  • 1795:20 × 9-pounder guns [3]
NotesTwo decks & three masts [4]

Sally was launched in 1782 at Liverpool as a West Indiaman. She made one voyage as a whaler and one as an East Indiaman sailing to Bengal under charter to the British East India Company (EIC). After a storm damaged her in 1805 as she was on her way in 1805 from Liverpool to Africa as a slave ship she had to put into Barbados where she was condemned.

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Career

Sally first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1782 with J.Corning, master, changing to J.Corbett, J.Chorley & Co., owners, and trade Liverpool–Tortola. [1]

YearMasterOwnerTradeSource
1783J.Corbett
J.Woods		J.ChorleyLiverpool–TortolaLR
1792J.Woods
J.Meader		J.ChorleyLiverpool–Southern FisheryLR

Whaling voyage (1791–1792): Captain John Meader sailed from Liverpool in 1791 (probably on 29 March 1791), bound for Walvis Bay. Sally returned on 19 November 1792. [5]

After Sally returned from whaling, Captain John Woods resumed command. On 11 January 1794 Captain John Woods acquired a letter of marque. [3] [lower-alpha 1]

YearMasterOwnerTradeSource
1794J.WoodsJ.ChorleyLiverpool–TortolaLR; repairs 1790 and 1792

EIC voyage (1795–1796): Captain Robert Brown acquired a letter of marque on 7 August 1795. Before she sailed, Sally underwent repairs. Sally sailed from Liverpool on 7 September, bound for Bengal. She was at Rio de Janeiro on 14 November, and arrived at Calcutta on 24 February 1796. Homeward bound, she was at Culpee on 2 April, reached St Helena on 23 July and Crookhaven on 27 November, before arriving at the Downs on 12 December. [7]

After Sally returned to England, Captain John Woods resumed command. He acquired a letter of marque on 12 January 1798. [3]

YearMasterOwnerTradeSource
1797J.Brown
J.Woods		J.ChorleyLiverpool–Bengal
Liverpool–Tortola		LR; repairs 1790, 1792, & 1795
1800J.WoodsJ.ChorleyLiverpool–TortolaLR; repairs 1790, 1792, & 1795
1805J.Thompson
C.Kincale		Holind & Co.Cork
Liverpool–Africa		LR; repairs 1790, 1792, & 1795

Fate

Captain Charles Kneale sailed Sally from Liverpool on 5 August 1805. The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database states that she was "shipwrecked or destroyed, before slaves embarked". [8] Lloyd's List (LL) reported on 10 December that Sally, Neale, master, from Liverpool to Africa, had put into Barbados dis-masted and that she had been condemned. [9]

Sally did not appear on the lists of vessels cleared to Africa from ports in England. [10] In 1805, 30 British enslaving vessels were lost, five of them on the outbound leg of their voyages. [11] During the period 1793 to 1807, war, rather than maritime hazards or resistance by the captives, was the greatest cause of vessel losses among British enslaving vessels. [12]

Notes

  1. ↑ One source lists the possibility that there was a second whaling voyage, but acknowledges that it cannot conclusively identify either as a whaling or sealing voyage. [6]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 LR (1782), Seq.№S630.
  2. 1 2 Hackman (2001), p. 242.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Letter of Marque, p.85 - accessed 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 Craig & Jarvis (1967), p. 40.
  5. ↑ British Southern Whale Fishery – Voyages: Sally.
  6. ↑ Clayton (2014), p. 211.
  7. ↑ British Library: Sally.
  8. ↑ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Sally voyage #83492.
  9. ↑ LL 10 December 105 №4278.
  10. ↑ Inikori (1996), p. 86.
  11. ↑ Inikori (1996), p. 62.
  12. ↑ Inikori (1996), p. 58.

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