Rosalind (1799 ship)

Rosalind was launched in 1789 in Spain and taken in prize in 1799. She made three voyages as a slave ship. A French privateer captured her in 1804 while she was on her fourth slave trading voyages.

History
Spain
Launched: 1789
Captured: 1799
United Kingdom
Name: Rosalind
Owner:
  • 1799:Chamley & Co.
  • 1799:Alexander Hoskins, Jonathan Dixon, & Benjamin Flesher[1]
  • 1800:Alexander Hoskins, James Barton, Benjamin Cort, Jonathan Dixon, James Worrall, Thomas Chamley, & Benjamin Cuite[1]
Acquired: 1799 by purchase of a prize
Fate: Captured c.1804
General characteristics
Tons burthen: 218[2] bm
Complement:
Armament:
  • 1799:22 × 6&9-pounder guns[2]
  • 1803:18 × 6&9-pounder guns[2]

Career

Rosalind entered Lloyd's Register in 1799 with B. Cuite, master, Chamley & Co., owners, and trade Liverpool–Africa.[3] Captain Benjamin Cuite acquired a letter of marque on 6 July 1799.[2]

Slave voyage #1 (1799–1800): Captain Cuite sailed from Liverpool on 31 July 1799. Rosalind gathered her slaves at New Calabar, and landed them on 2 February 1800 at Trinidad. She may have landed embarked some 360 slaves. She left Trinidad on 31 March and arrived back at Liverpool on 17 May. She had left with 40 crew members and suffered three crew deaths on her voyage.[1]

Slave voyage #2 (1799–1800): Captain Cuite sailed from Liverpool on 25 October 1800. Rosalind gathered her slaves at New Calabar, and landed them on 6 June 1801 at Trinidad. She may have landed some 279 slaves. She left Trinidad on 18 July and arrived back at Liverpool on 20 September. She had left with 33 crew members and suffered eight crew deaths on her voyage.[1]

Slave voyage #3 (1802–1803): Captain Cuite sailed from Liverpool on 29 April 1802. Rosalind gathered her slaves at Calabar, and landed them on 30 December at Saint Thomas, Danish Virgin Islands. She landed some 241 slaves. She left St Thomas on 9 February 1803 and arrived back at Liverpool on 2 April. She had left with 29 crew members and suffered two crew deaths on her voyage.[1]

Captain James Brown acquired a letter of marque on 23 May 1803.[2]

Slave voyage #4 (1803–loss): Captain Brown sailed from Liverpool on 1 July 1803 with 39 crew members.[1]

Lloyd's List reported on 27 September 1803 that Loyalist, Walton, master, had been sailing from Batavia to Amsterdam when Rosalind, of Liverpool, Brown, master, captured her and sent her into Bantry Bay.[4]

Loss

Lloyd's List reported on 16 March 1804 that Rosalind, Brown, master, had been taken and sent into Guadeloupe. She had been sailing from Africa to Antigua.[5]

Citations
  1. Trans Atlantic Slave Trade database – Voyages:Rosalind.
  2. Letter of Marque, p.85 - accessed 25 July 2017.
  3. Lloyd's Register (1799), Seq.№R430.
  4. Lloyd's List №4388.
  5. Lloyd's List №4436.
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