Harriot (1806 ship)

19th century ship

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

History
United Kingdom
Name| Harriot
Builder| America
Launched| 1803
Acquired| Circa 1806
Captured| 1808
General characteristics
Tons burthen| 205[1] (bm)
Armament| 4 × 4-pounder guns + 12 × 12-pounder carronades[1]

Harriot (or Harriet) was launched in America in 1803, possibly under another name. In 1806 she made a voyage as a slave ship. In 1807 she started a second such voyage, one of the last legal such voyages, but a French privateer captured her before she could deliver to the British West Indies the slaves she had acquired.

Harriot first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1806.[1]

Year  | Master  | Owner  | Trade  | Source

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1806  | J.Woodrick  | Shaw & Co.  | Liverpool–Africa  | LR

1st slave voyage (1806–1807): Captain John Woolrich sailed from Liverpool on 20 February 1806, bound for Lagos Onim. After having acquired her slaves, Harriot stopped in at Prince's Island. She arrived at Demerara on 3 October 1806 with 240 slaves.[2] The 240 slaves were offered for sale on 11 October. Captain P. Stuart replaced Woolrich at some point, and she arrived at Demerara under Stuart's command.[3] Harriot cleared outbound on 12 December and sailed from Demerara on 20 December under the command of Captain Peter Stewart.[4] She arrived back at Liverpool on 16 February 1807. She had left Liverpool with 34 crew members and she suffered nine crew deaths on her voyage.[2]

The Act for the abolition of the slave trade had passed Parliament in March 1807 and took effect on 1 May 1807. However, apparently Harriot had received clearance to sail before the deadline. Thus, when she sailed on 9 July, she did so legally. (The last vessel to sail legally was Kitty's Amelia, which sailed on 27 July, having received clearance to sail on 28 April.)

2nd slave voyage (1807–capture): Captain James Irwin sailed from Liverpool on 9 July 1807, bound for Loango.[5] In February 1808 or so, the privateer Général Ernouf captured Harriot, as Harriet was sailing from Africa to the West Indies, and possibly sent her into Cayenne.[6]

The LR volume for 1809 carried the annotation "captured" beneath her name.[7]

## Citations

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1. ^ a b c LR (1806), Supple. pages "H", Seq.No.H8.
2. ^ a b Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Harriot voyage #81739.
3. ^ Essequebo and Demerary Gazette 11 October 1806, No.198.
4. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 4128\. 20 February 1807. hdl:2027/uc1.c2735023. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
5. ^ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Harriot voyage #81740.
6. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 4248\. 29 April 1808. hdl:2027/uc1.c2735023. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
7. ^ LR (1809), Seq.No.H176.