Royal George (1798 ship)

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

History
French Navy EnsignFrance
Captured1798
Great Britain
NameRoyal George
Acquired1798 by purchase of a prize
Captured1805
General characteristics
Tons burthen176,[1] or 180[2] (bm)
Complement
  • 1798:35[1]
  • 1805:10
Armament18 × 6-pounder guns[1]

Royal George was a French prize that the British captured circa 1798.[2] She made one voyage as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She left that trade and then traded until a French privateer captured her in 1805.

Career

On 24 December 1798 Captain James Walker acquired a letter of marque.[1] In 1799 she made one voyage carrying captives from West Africa to Grenada. At the time her master was James Walker and her owner Thomas Kirkpatrick. She left Liverpool on 2 January 1799, bound for West Central Africa and Saint Helena. She arrived at Grenada on 11 November and landed 185 captives.[3]

Royal George appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1805 with J. Walker, master, Kirkpatrick, owner, and trade Liverpool–Africa. A report from France dated 10 February 1805 stated that the French privateer Adolphe had captured the three-masted ship Royal George off the Isle of Wight. Royal George, of London, had a crew of ten and was carrying ivory, corn, flour, iron, tin, dye wood, and the like. Adolphe left her prize within three leagues of the French Coast.[4] A report dated 14 February stated that Adolphe had taken into Boulogne a British ship carrying flour, dye wood, lead, tin plates, etc.[5] A Royal George appears on a list of British prizes brought into Boulogne between 1793 and 1814.[6]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d Letter of Marque, p.85 - accessed 25 July 2017.
  2. ^ a b Lloyd's Register (1805), Seq.№R408.
  3. ^ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database: Voyage #83430 - Royal George.
  4. ^ Lloyd's List №4194.
  5. ^ Lloyd's List №4196.
  6. ^ Norman (1887), p. 401.

References

  • Norman, Charles Boswell (1887). The Corsairs of France. S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington.