Aggie (1777 ship)

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

History
Great Britain
Name| Aggie, or Agie
Builder| Liverpool
Launched| 1777
Renamed| Spy (1781)
Captured| 4 June 1782
General characteristics
Tons burthen| 80,[1] or 110[2] ( (bm)
Armament| 14 × 4-pounder guns

Aggie (or Agie), was launched in Liverpool in 1777. She traded locally until 1781 when her owners renamed her Spy. She briefly became a privateer, and then a slave ship, engaged in the triangular trade in enslaved people. The French Navy captured her in 1782 in the West Indies as she was arriving to deliver her cargo of slaves on her first slave-trading voyage.

## Career

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Agie first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1778.[3]

Year  | Master  | Owner  | Trade  | Source

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1778  | R.Downes  | R.Wicksted  | Liverpool–Limerick  | LR
1779  | R.Downes  | R.Wicksted  | Liverpool–Elsinor  | LR
1780  | R.Downes  | R.Wicksted  | Galway Bay  | LR
1781  | R.Downes
Burrows  | Wickstead  | Liverpool–Limerick  | LR; "now the Spy"
1781  | J.Burrows  | R.Wichfield  | Liverpool privateer
Liverpool–Africa  | LR; raised 1780
1782  | J.Burrows  | Wickstead  | Liverpool–Africa  | LR; ex-Aggie

Slave trading voyage: Captain John Burrows sailed Spy from Liverpool in July 1781, bound for West Africa.[1]

## Fate

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On 4 June 1782 two French frigates captured Spy, Burrows, master, and took her into Dominica. She was carrying 250 captives and six tons of ivory.[4][5]

## Citations

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1. ^ a b Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Spy voyage #83594.
2. ^ LR (1781), "S" supple. pages, Seq.No.S520.
3. ^ LR (1778), Seq.No.A98.
4. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 1396\. 13 September 1782. hdl:2027/uc1.c3049061.
5. ^ Williams (1897), p. 294.

## References

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* Williams, Gomer (1897). History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque: With an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade. W. Heinemann.