Roe (1797 ship)

Roe was launched in France in 1787, almost certainly under another name. She first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) with Carlisle, master, John Shaw, owner, and trade Liverpool–Africa.[1]

For other ships with the same name, see Roe (ship).

History
France
Launched: 1787[1]
Captured: c.1797
Great Britain
Name: Roe
Acquired: 1797 by purchase of a prize
Captured: 1798
General characteristics
Tons burthen: 210,[1] or 241[2] (bm)
Complement: 15[2]
Armament:
  • 1797:2 × 9-pounder + 4 × 6-pounder guns[1]
  • 1797:10 × 6-pounder guns[2]

Captain Ledwick (or Ludwick) Carlisle acquired a letter of marque on 24 April 1797.[2] He sailed from Liverpool on 11 May 1797, bound to West Africa to acquire slaves. Roe stopped in Barbados and then arrived at Demerara on 1 March 1798 and there landed 394 slaves. She had left Liverpool with 30 crew members and she suffered two crew deaths on the voyage.[3]

Capture: Lloyd's List (LL) reported on 3 August 1798 that Roe, Carlisle, master, from Demerara to Liverpool, had been captured and taken into Guadeloupe.[4]

In 1801 John Shaw would own a second slave ship named Roe that would make four slave trading voyages.

Citations
  1. LR (1797), Seq.№%225.
  2. "Letter of Marque, p.84 - accessed 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  3. Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Roe voyage #83369.
  4. LL 3 August 1798, №3022/
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