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- Slaver
- HMS Comet
- Fate
- Citations and references
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}} | Betsey was a Guineaman (slave ship), launched at Liverpool in 1768. She made several voyages transporting slaves from West Africa to the Caribbean until 1777 when the British Royal Navy purchased her at Antigua, named her HMS Comet, and armed her as a sloop-of-war. She sailed to England in 1778, where the Navy sold her. SlaverBetween 1768 and 1777 Betsey made some seven or eight voyages transporting slaves from West Africa to the Caribbean.[1] | Year | Master |
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| 1768 | Samuel Conway | Antigua | | 1770 | Samuel Conway | Antigua | | 1770 | Samuel Conway
Parkinson | Antigua | | 1772 | Samuel Conway
William Stevenson | Jamaica | | 1772 | Samuel Conway | St Kitts | | 1774 | John Washington | Jamaica. | | 1775 | Jere Limeburner | Jamaica | | 1777 | John Simmons | Dominica | |
The 1776 issue of Lloyd's Register is the first issue available online that lists Betsey. It shows her trade as Liverpool-Africa, and her master changing from Limeburner to Simmons. It also records that in 1774 she had damages repaired.[2] Betsey arrived in Dominica in 1776 from New Calabar. She had embarked 336 slaves and disembarked 272, for a 19% mortality rate.[3]HMS CometVice-admiral James Young purchased the Guineaman Betsey at Antigua for £1500, and renamed her Comet. On 30 May 1777 he appointed Lieutenant William Swinney (or Swiney), First Lieutenant of {{HMS|Portland|1770|2}}, to command Comet.{{sfnp|Morgan|1986|p=101}} On 19 March 1778 Lieutenant William Peacock, First Lieutenant of Portland, replaced Swinney, who transferred to {{HMS|Cygnet|1776|2}} to replace her previous commander, Lieutenant Robert Stratford, who had died.{{sfn|Crawford et al.|2005|p=720}} In April Young sent {{HMS|Shark|1776|2}} and Comet back to England as escorts to a convoy that also included {{HMS|Yarmouth|1745|2}}, which Young was sending back for repairs following her engagement with the American privateer Randolph.{{sfnp|Crawford et al.|2013|p=58}} FateComet was paid off in August 1778.[4] The navy sold Comet on 15 September 1778.{{sfnp|Colledge & Warlow|2006|p=86}} Citations and referencesCitations1. ^1 [https://www.academia.edu/12826440/Liverpool_Slave_Ship_Voyages_Database Thomas Cozens: Liverpool Slave Ship Voyages Database]
2. ^1 2 [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015004741958?urlappend=%3Bseq=32 Lloyd's Register (1776), Seq. №B133.]
3. ^Campbell (2007), p.22.
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_xii.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110802041601/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_xii.pdf|dead-url=yes|archive-date=2 August 2011|title=NMM, vessel ID 382607|work=Warship Histories, vol xii|publisher=National Maritime Museum|accessdate=30 July 2011}}
References- Campbell, Susan (2007) [https://web.archive.org/web/20130418033700/http://da-academy.org/AfricanstoDominica.pdf "AFRICANS TO DOMINICA: 100,000 MIDDLE PASSAGES FROM 'GUINEA' to the Eastern Caribbean, 1764-1808"].
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- Crawford, Michael J., E. Gordon Bowen-Hassell, Dennis M. Conrad, & Mark L. Hayes, eds. (2005) Naval Documents of the American Revolution. Vol. 11. (Washington, DC: Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy).
- Crawford, Michael J., E. Gordon Bowen-Hassell, Dennis M. Conrad, & Mark L. Hayes, eds. (2013) Naval Documents of the American Revolution. Vol. 12. (Washington, DC: Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy).
- Morgan, William James, ed. (1986) Naval Documents of the American Revolution. Vol. 9. (Washington, DC: Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy).
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