Rebecca (1805 ship)

Rebecca was launched at Charleston in 1802, possibly under another name. She first appeared in online British sources in 1805. In 1805, Rebecca began a voyage as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people but fell prey to Spanish privateers after she had embarked captives.

History
United Kingdom
NameRebecca
Launched1802, Charleston
Acquired1805
Captured1805
General characteristics
Tons burthen265,[1] or 272[2] (bm)
Complement34
Armament16 × 4&6-pounder guns[2]

Career

Rebecca first appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1805.[1]

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1805 Thompson M'Dowell Liverpool–Africa LR

Captain William Thompson sailed from Liverpool on 18 March 1805. He acquired captives at Loango and Cabinda.[3]

Fate

In December 1805, Lloyd's List reported that Rebecca, Thompson, master, William, Christie, master, and Clarendon, Grice, master, had been captured at Angola on 1 September.[4] They were among the seven vessels off the Congo River that had fallen prey to a privateer.[lower-alpha 1] The privateer was described as being of 22 guns and 350 men. Rebecca's captor sent her to the River Plate.[5]

A second report named the captors as L'Orient, of 14 guns, and Dromedario, of 22 guns. The captured vessels arrived in the River Plate before 12 November.[6]

Spanish records report that in June 1805, Viceroy Sobremonte, of Argentina, issued two letters of marque, one for Dolores (24 guns), Currand, master, and Berro y Errasquin, owner, and one for Dromedario (20 guns), Hippolito Mordel, master, and Canuerso y Masini, owner. The two sailed for the African coast, looking to capture enslaving ships. In three months of cruising Dolores captured three ships and one brig, carrying a total 600 enslaved people. Dromedario captured five ships, carrying a total of 500 enslaved people.[7]

Rebecca's entry in the 1806 volume of the Register of Shipping (S), carried the annotation "Captured".[2]

In 1805, 30 British slave ships were lost. Thirteen were lost on the coast of Africa.[8] During the period 1793 to 1807, war, rather than maritime hazards or slave resistance, was the greatest cause of vessel losses among British slave vessels.[9]

Notes
  1. Among the other vessels were Active, Elizabeth, and Nelly.

Citations
  1. LR (1805), Supple. pages "R", Seq.no.R9.
  2. RS (1806), Seq. no.R99.
  3. Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Rebecca voyage #83294.
  4. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 4282. 24 December 1805. hdl:2027/uc1.c2735022.
  5. "LIVERPOOL, DEC. 26". 28 December 1805, Lancaster Gazetter (Lancaster, England), Volume: 5, Issue: 237.
  6. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 4294. 4 February 1806. hdl:2027/mdp.39015005721496.
  7. Anon. (1864), p. 19.
  8. Inikori (1996), p. 62.
  9. Inikori (1996), p. 58.

References
  • Anon. (1864). "History of the Argentine Republic: First English invasions, 1804–1806". River Plate Magazine. Buenos Aires Typographical Society. 2: 17–21.
  • 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. doi:10.3406/outre.1996.3457.
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