Royal George (1798 ship)
Royal George was a French prize that the British captured circa 1798.[2] She made one voyage as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She left that trade and then traded until a French privateer captured her in 1805.
| History | |
|---|---|
 France | |
| Captured | 1798 |
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| Name | Royal George |
| Acquired | 1798 by purchase of a prize |
| Captured | 1805 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen | 176,[1] or 180[2] (bm) |
| Complement |
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| Armament | 18 × 6-pounder guns[1] |
Career
On 24 December 1798 Captain James Walker acquired a letter of marque.[1] In 1799 she made one voyage carrying captives from West Africa to Grenada. At the time her master was James Walker and her owner Thomas Kirkpatrick. She left Liverpool on 2 January 1799, bound for West Central Africa and Saint Helena. She arrived at Grenada on 11 November and landed 185 captives.[3]
Royal George appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1805 with J. Walker, master, Kirkpatrick, owner, and trade Liverpool–Africa. A report from France dated 10 February 1805 stated that the French privateer Adolphe had captured the three-masted ship Royal George off the Isle of Wight. Royal George, of London, had a crew of ten and was carrying ivory, corn, flour, iron, tin, dye wood, and the like. Adolphe left her prize within three leagues of the French Coast.[4] A report dated 14 February stated that Adolphe had taken into Boulogne a British ship carrying flour, dye wood, lead, tin plates, etc.[5] A Royal George appears on a list of British prizes brought into Boulogne between 1793 and 1814.[6]
Citations
References
- Norman, Charles Boswell (1887). The Corsairs of France. S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington.