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Lord Duncan (1798 Liverpool ship)

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History
Great Britain
NameLord Duncan
NamesakeAdam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan
OwnerSamuel MacDowell (or McDowal) & Co.
FateCondemned 1800[1]
General characteristics
Tons burthen101,[1] or 118[2] (bm)

Lord Duncan was launched at Dublin in 1787 under another name. Between 1799 and 1800 she made one voyage as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She was sold in 1800 after she had delivered her captives.

Career

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Lord Duncan first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1798.[2]

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1799 C.King J.Bold Liverpool–Africa LR

Captain Charles King sailed from Liverpool on 7 March 1799.[1] King had been a surgeon on voyages transporting enslaved people between 1785 and 1799, but this was his first voyage as a master.[3] In 1799, 156 vessels sailed from English ports, bound for the trade in enslaved people; 134 of these vessels sailed from Liverpool.[4]

Lord Duncan stopped at Sierra Leone and she arrived at Kingston, Jamaica on 2 February 1800, with 127 captives acquired at the Congo River.[1] Before reaching Kingston she had stopped at Martinique. She had left Liverpool with 23 crew members and had suffered three crew deaths on her voyage.[1]

Although the registers carried Lord Duncan for some more years with unchanged data, her owners had sold her in the Americas after she had delivered her captives.[1]

Citations

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References

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  • Behrendt, Stephen D. (1990). "The Captains in the British slave trade from 1785 to 1807" (PDF). Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. 140.
  • Williams, Gomer (1897). History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque: With an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade. W. Heinemann.