Active (1789 ship)

Active was launched at Bermuda in 1789. She transferred to Liverpool circa 1798 and then spent a few years as a West Indiaman. Between 1802 and 1803 she made one voyage as a slave ship. She was captured off West Africa around late 1804 on her second voyage before she could start purchasing slaves.

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

History
Builder: Bermuda
Launched: 1789
Captured: Circa late 1804
General characteristics
Tons burthen: 127,[1] or 137[2] (bm)
Sail plan: Snow
Complement: 25[2]
Armament: 14 × 4-pounder guns[2]

Career

Active first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1798,[1]

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1798 T.Davis M'Burnie Liverpool-Martinique LR
1799 T.Davis
R.Johnson		 M'Burnie Liverpool-Martinique LR
1800 T.Davis
R.Johnson		 M'Burnie Liverpool-Martinique LR
1801 R.Johnson
W.Wilding		 M'Burnie Liverpool-Martinique
Liverpool–Newfoundland		 LR
1802 W.Wilding
J.Noumus		 M'Burnie
Newton		 Liverpool–Newfoundland
Liverpool–Africa		 LR

Slave ship

1st slave voyage (1802–1803):: Captain Isaac Nomus sailed from Liverpool on 4 August 1802. Active arrived at Demerara on 19 December 1802. She sailed from Demerara on 17 March 1803 and arrived back at Liverpool on 12 May. She had left with 22 crew members and she suffered one crew death during the voyage. At some point on the voyage, Captain Robert Hall replaced Nomus. [3]

2nd slave voyage (1803–loss): Captain James Dalrymple acquired a letter of marque on 2 September 1803.[2] Captain John Dalrymple sailed from Liverpool on 26 October.[4]

Fate

When Fame arrived at Demerara she brought news that Active, Dalrymple, master, and Prudence, Darby, master, had been captured on the Windward Coast.[5]

Citations
  1. LR (1898), Seq.No.A553.
  2. "Letter of Marque, p.47 - accessed 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  3. Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Active voyage #80021.
  4. Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Active voyage #80022.
  5. "LIVERPOOL, MAY 2". Lancaster Gazette and General Advertiser, for Lancashire, Westmorland, &c. (Lancaster, England), Saturday, May 05, 1804; Issue 151.
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