Defiance (1802 ship)

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

History
United Kingdom
NameDefiance
Acquired1802 by purchase of a prize
FateWrecked December 1802
General characteristics
Tons burthen267 (bm)
Complement30

Defiance was a French vessel that first appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1803 with N.Long, master, Gibbons & Co., owners, and trade London–South Seas.[1] That is, she intended to sail as a whaler. She sailed for the South Seas on 7 December 1802, but immediately put into Ramsgate, having sustained damage when she ran on to the Brake.[2] She was driven ashore and wrecked on the coast of France in late December 1802. Captain Nathan Long (of Nantucket), her mate, and seven other crew drowned; 21 crew survived.[3][4][5]

It is highly likely that this Defiance is the Defiance that made three voyages as a slave ship and that a privateer captured in late 1800.

Citations

  1. ^ LR (1803), Seq.№D406.
  2. ^ Lloyd's List (LL) 7 December 1802, №4305.
  3. ^ "Shipwrecks". Bury and Norwich Post, or Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex and Cambridge Advertiser. No. 1072. 12 January 1803.
  4. ^ LL 4 January 1803, №4313.
  5. ^ British Southern Whale Fishery Database – Voyages: Defiance.