Prosperity (1788 ship)

History
Great Britain
Name| Prosperity
Launched| 1788, Strangford
Captured| 1793 & 1794
General characteristics
Tons burthen| 100,[1] or 101, or 105, or 108 (bm)
Notes| Fir sides

Prosperity was launched in Strangford in 1788. She traded in the area and then to Dominica. From 1792 she made two voyages as a slave ship in the Atlantic triangular slave trade. On both voyages French privateers captured her. In the first case the Royal Navy recaptured her and she completed her voyage. In the second case her captor sent her into France.

## Career

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Prosperity first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR), in 1789.[1]

Year  | Master  | Owner  | Trade  | Source

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1789  | E.Conway  | Strangford  | Bordeaux–Dublin  | LR
1791  | J.Conway
T.Feagan  | Potter & Co.  | Liverpool–Strangford  | LR
1792  | Feagan
Churnside
R.Kelsall  | Potter & Co.
Boyle & Co.  | Liverpool–Strangford
Belfast–Dominica  | LR
1793  | R.Kelsall  | R.Ward & Co  | Liverpool–Africa  | LR

Capture (1793): Captain Richard Kelsall sailed from Liverpool on 3 November 1792.[2] The French privateer Liberty, of Bordeaux, captured seven slave ships before July 1793: Prosperity, Echo, Union, Little Joe, Mercury, Hazard, and Swift, Roper, master.[3][a]

HMS Andromeda recaptured Prosperity, which arrived at Barbados.[3]

Capture (1794): Captain Kelsall sailed from Liverpool on 14 August 1794.[5]

In December 1794, Lloyd's List reported that Prosperity, Kelsall, master, from Liverpool to Africa, had been captured and taken to France.[6] The capture took place before Prosperity had embarked any slaves.[5]

## Notes

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1. ^ There was a Liberté, privateer from Bordeaux, that was commissioned in February 1793 under Jacques Laventy with 16 to 20 guns. She was sold in Guadeloupe in June 1793 by a Mister Mehy, and operated under a Captain Le Bas until 1794.[4]

## Citations

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1. ^ a b LR (1789), Seq.No.P494.
2. ^ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Prosperity voyage #83243.
3. ^ a b "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 5228\. 26 July 1793. hdl:2027/hvd.32044050633098.
4. ^ Demerliac (1999), p. 266, n°2341.
5. ^ a b Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Prosperity voyage #83244.
6. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 2672\. 12 December 1794. hdl:2027/mdp.39015050998239.

## References

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* Demerliac, Alain (1999). La Marine de la Révolution: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1792 à 1799 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 9782906381247. OCLC 492783890.

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