Union (1791 ship)

For other ships with the same name, see List of ships named Union.

History
Great Britain
NameUnion
OwnerJohn Ratcliffe, George Hauit, & William Thompson[1]
BuilderLiverpool[1]
Launched1791[1]
Captured1793
General characteristics
Tons burthen113[2] (bm)
Complement24[2]
Armament10 × 4-pounder guns[2]

Union was launched in 1791 in Liverpool, England. She became a slave ship that the French captured on her first slave voyage. Captain R. Farrington sailed for West Africa on 15 August 1792.[1]

Captain George Hauit acquired a letter of marque for Union on 1 March 1793,[2] just after the outbreak of war with France.

The French privateer Liberty, of Bordeaux, captured seven slave ships before July 1793: Union, Farrington, Little Joe, Echo, Mercury, Hazard, Prosperity, and Swift, Roper, master. The capture of Union took place off Bassa.[3][4][a]

Robust recaptured Little Joe and Echo. HMS Andromeda recaptured Prosperity; the cutter HMS Seaflower recaptured Mercury. Liberty ransomed Swift after plundering her.

Notes

  1. ^ There was a Liberté, privateer from Bordeaux, with 16 to 20 guns, that was commissioned in February 1793 under Jacques Laventy. She was sold in Guadeloupe in June 1793 by a Mister Mehy, and operated under a Captain Le Bas until 1794.[5]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Union voyage #83890.
  2. ^ a b c d "Letter of Marque, p.90 – Retrieved 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  3. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 5228. 26 July 1793. hdl:2027/hvd.32044050633098.
  4. ^ Williams (1897), p. 313.
  5. ^ Demerliac (1999), p. 266, no.2341.

References

  • Demerliac, Alain (1999). La Marine de la Révolution: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1792 à 1799 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 9782906381247. OCLC 492783890.
  • Williams, Gomer (1897). History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque: With an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade. W. Heinemann.