Admiral Kingsmill (1796 ship)

Admiral Kingsmill appears in Lloyd's Register for 1797 as a British clinker-built and Cork-based privateer. The entry shows her master as Thornton. She had undergone repairs in 1796 and was armed with ten 6-pounder guns.[1] Captain Eleazer Thornton acquired a letter of marque for Admiral Kingsmill on 19 December 1796.[2] Lloyd's Register for 1798 describes her as a tin-sheathed brig. It gives her burthen as 160 tons and her trade as Liverpool-Africa, indicating that she was probably a slave ship.

For other ships with the same name, see Admiral Kingsmill (ship).
History
Great Britain
Name: Admiral Kingsmill
Namesake: Sir Robert Kingsmill, 1st Baronet
Owner:
  • 1797:J. Roche
  • 1798:Penny & Co.
Acquired: 1796
Fate: Captured 1799
General characteristics
Type: Brig
Tons burthen: 120,[1] or 139,[2] or 160[3] (bm)
Propulsion: Sail
Complement: 50[2]
Armament: 10 × 4&6-pounder guns[2]
Notes: Tin sheathing

A database of slave-trading voyages shows her master as Hugh Kessick, and her owners as James Penny, James Penny, Jr., Moses Benson, and John Backhouse. She left Liverpool on 8 June 1797 and gathered her slaves from West Central Africa. Admiral Kingsmill delivered them to Martinique on 20 March 1798. She embarked 283 slaves and disembarked 263, for a loss rate of 7.1%.[3]

Admiral Kingsmill is last listed in Lloyd's Register and the Register of Shipping in 1800.

Citations

  1. Lloyd's Register (1797), Supplemental pages, Seq. №A57.
  2. "Letter of Marque, p.47 - accessed 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  3. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database Voyages: Admiral Kingsmill.
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