Angola (1799 ship)

Angola was launched in 1799 at Lancaster. She became a Liverpool-based slave ship that had made four voyages carrying slaves from West Africa to the West Indies. The French had captured her in 1804 on her fifth voyage. Her captors renamed her Tigre, but the Royal Navy recaptured her late in 1804.

History
Great Britain
Name: Angola
Namesake: Angola
Owner:
  • 1799:Overend
  • 1800:Mullion & Co.
Builder: Lancaster
Launched: 1799
Captured: May 1804
France
Name: Tigre
Namesake: Tiger
Acquired: 1804 by purchase of prize
Captured: December 1804
General characteristics
Tons burthen: 180,[1] or 184[1] (bm)
Complement:
Armament:
  • 1799: 18 × 4&6&9-pounder guns[1]
  • 1801:18 × 4&6-pounder guns[1]
  • 1803:16 × 6-pounder guns & 18-pounder carronades[1]
  • 1804:16 × 6-pounder guns & 18-pounder carronades[1]
  • At capture:12 × 18-pounder carronades + 2 × brass 4-pounder chase guns[2]

Career

Angola first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1799 with Williams, master, Overand, owner, and trade Lancaster–Africa.[3]

1st slave voyage (1799–1800)

Captain William Williams acquired a letter of marque on 26 June 1799.[1] He sailed from Liverpool on 14 August, bound for the West Coast of Africa. Angola arrived at Trinidad on 1 March 1800, where she landed some 300 slaves. She arrived back at Liverpool on 24 June 1800.[4]

2nd slave voyage (1800–1801)

Captain Charles King sailed from Liverpool on 13 November 1800, bound for The Gambia. She started purchasing her slaves on 5 December and arrived at St Vincent on 16 April 1801. There she landed 203 slaves. She left St Vincent on 10 June and arrived back at Liverpool on 15 August. She had sailed with 26 crewmembers and suffered six crew deaths on her voyage.[5]

3rd slave voyage (1801–1802)

Captain Charles Boyes acquired a letter of marque on 26 September 1801.[1] He sailed from Liverpool on 2 November. Angola arrived at The Gambia on 22 November. She arrived at Demerara on 23 March 1802 and landed 207 slaves. She left on 13 April and arrived back at Liverpool on 6 June. She had left Liverpool with 25 crewmembers and she suffered eight crew deaths on her voyage.[6]

4th slave voyage (1802–1803)

Captain Charles Boys sailed from Liverpool on 21 July 1802, bound for the Sierra Leone Estuary. Angola arrived at Demerara on 1 March 1803 where she landed 216 slaves. She sailed from 20 April and arrived back at Liverpool on 6 June. She had left Liverpool with 23 crewmembers and suffered three crew deaths on her voyage[7]

5th slave voyage (1804–Capture)

Captain Thomas Phillips acquired a letter of marque on 27 July 1803,[1] but the voyage did not take place.[1] Captain Charles Boyes acquired a letter of marque 11 February 1804. Boyes sailed on 16 February 1804, bound for The Gambia.[8]

Lloyd's List (LL) reported on 10 July 1804 that in May the French privateer Tigre, of four guns, had without firing a shot captured Angola, of 14 guns and 30 men. Tigre then took Angola into Senegal.[9]

LR for 1805 had the annotation "captured" by the entry for her.[10]

Recapture

In December 1804 HMS Fisgard was at 37°00′N 13°40′W when she captured the French letter of marque Tigre. Tigre was pierced for 16 guns and had 14 mounted: twelve 18-pounder carronades and two brass 4-pounder guns; she also had six 4-pounders in her hold. She had a crew of 40 men, and was ballasted with mahogany and dye wood. She was 45 days into her voyage from Cayenne to Cadiz and on her way she had captured an English brig that had been sailing from London to Saint Michaels; the brig's master and crew were aboard Tigre. Tigre was the former Angola, of Liverpool.[2]

Citations
  1. "Letter of Marque, p.49 - accessed 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  2. "No. 15778". The London Gazette. 5 February 1805. p. 178.
  3. LR (1799), "A" supple. pages, Seq.№A300.
  4. Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Angola voyage #80239.
  5. Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Angola voyage #80240.
  6. Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Angola voyage #80241.
  7. Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Angola voyage #80242.
  8. Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Angola voyage #80243.
  9. LL №4469.
  10. LR (1805), Seq.№A584.
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