Elizabeth (1806 ship)

For other ships with the same name, see List of ships named Elizabeth.

History
United Kingdom
Name| Elizabeth
Owner| John & Philip Hind[1]
Launched| 1806, Liverpool[2][1]
Fate| Captured 1807
General characteristics
Tons burthen| 144,[1] or 148[2] (bm)
Sail plan| Snow
Complement| 24,[3] or 25[1]
Armament| 14 × 6-pounder guns,[3][4] or carronades[5]

Elizabeth was a snow launched in 1806 at Liverpool for the slave trade. Captain John Flinn left Liverpool on 19 April 1807 and gathered captives in West Africa.[1] She was reported at Angola. Lloyd's List reported in January 1808 that Elizabeth, Flynn, master, from Africa, had been taken and sent into Guadaloupe.[6]

On 17 October the French privateer Général Ernouf,[5] under the command of the French privateer captain Alexis Grassin,[7] captured Elizabeth after Elizabeth had embarked her slaves. Général-Ernouf sent her into Guadeloupe with her cargo of 176 captives.[3] There she sold for 31,852 francs.[4]

In 1807, 12 British slave ships were lost while engaging in the slave trade. Of these 12, six were lost in the Middle Passage between Africa and the West Indies.[8] Because of the passage of the Slave Trade Act 1807, which ended British participation in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, 1807 was a truncated year, statistically speaking. During the period 1793 to 1807, war, rather than maritime hazards or resistance by the captives, was the greatest cause of vessel losses among British slave vessels.[9]

## Citations

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1. ^ a b c d e Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Elizabeth voyage #81229.
2. ^ a b Lloyd's Register (1807), Supple. pages "E", Seq.no.E21.
3. ^ a b c Journal politique de Mannheim (10 May 1808), p.2 & (26 July 1808), p.2.
4. ^ a b La Nicollière-Teijeiro (1896), pp. 427–428.
5. ^ a b Gallois (1847), p. 434.
6. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 4219\. 12 January 1808. hdl:2027/mdp.39015005721488.
7. ^ Demerliac (2004), p. 322, #2750.
8. ^ Inikori (1996), p. 62.
9. ^ Inikori (1996), p. 58.

## References

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* Demerliac, Alain (2004). La Marine du Consulat et du Premier Empire: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1800 A 1815 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 2-903179-30-1.
* Gallois, Napoléon (1847). Les Corsaires français sous la République et l'Empire (in French). Vol. 2\. Julien, Lanier et compagnie.
* Inikori, Joseph (1996). "Measuring the unmeasured hazards of the Atlantic slave trade: Documents relating to the British trade". Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer. 83 (312): 53–92.
* La Nicollière-Teijeiro, Stéphane (1896). La Course et les Corsaires de Nantes (in French). H. Champion (Paris), Ve Vier (Nantes).