History
Great Britain
NameBetsey
OwnerR.Leigh & Co. (1798)[1]
Launched1791, Bermuda[2]
Captured3 June 1798
General characteristics
Tons burthen142[3][2] (bm)
Complement
Armament
  • 1793: 16 × 6-pounder guns[3]
  • 1798: 12 × 6-pounder guns[3]
  • 1798: 12 × 6-pounder guns[3]

Betsey was launched in Bermuda in 1791. She never appeared in Lloyd's Register. On 11 April 1793 Captain William Doyle acquired a letter of marque.[3] The size of her crew indicates that the intent was to sail her as a privateer. Lloyd's List for 1793 and 1794 makes no mention of a privateer Betsey.

Because Betsey is a common name and she did not appear in Lloyd's Register it had not yet been possible to discover what she did between 1793 and 1798.

Captain Daniel Hayward acquired a letter of marque on 13 March 1798. Two weeks later, on 27 March 1798, Captain James Barrow acquired a letter of marque.[3] Barrow,[2] or Hayward,[1] sailed from Liverpool on 22 April 1798, bound for the Windward Coast. Betsey was a slave ship, engaged in the triangular trade in enslaved people. However, the French captured Betsey before she had embarked any slaves.[2]

Lloyd's List reported that on 3 June, the French frigate Convention had captured Betsey, Hayward, master, off the coast of Africa. Betsey had been on her way from Liverpool to Africa.[4][lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2]

Notes

  1. ↑ There is no record of a French frigate with the name Convention. The 74-gun Sceptre bore the name Convention between 1792 and 1800.[5]
  2. ↑ Hayward died on 6 March 1800 while on his second voyage on the slave ship Active.[6]

Citations

  1. 1 2 Williams (1897), p. 682.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Betsey voyage #80352.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Letter of Marque, p.52 – Retrieved 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  4. ↑ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 3032. 18 September 1798.
  5. ↑ Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 86.
  6. ↑ Behrendt (1990), p. 157.

References

  • 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.
  • Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.
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