History
United Kingdom
NameJane
BuilderLiverpool
Launched1805
FateExploded 1806
General characteristics
Tons burthen194[1] (bm)
Complement32[1]
Armament
  • Letter of Marque: 16 × 9-pounder guns[1]
  • LR:4 × 9-pounder guns + 12 × 9-pounder carronades[2]

Jane was launched at Liverpool in 1805 as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. An explosion, the result of a rebellion by her captives, destroyed her in 1806.

Jane first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LL) in 1805 with Magennis, master, Falkner & Co., owners, and trade Liverpool–Africa.[2] Captain John Magginnis acquired a letter of marque on 22 July 1805.[1] Captain John Maginnis sailed from Liverpool on 11 August 1805.[3]

While Jane, McGinnis, master, was at the Congo she blew up in 1806, reportedly as the result of a rebellion.[4] The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade database reports that almost the entire crew and all the captives were killed.[3] However, Lloyd's List (LL) reported that Byam, a ship also gathering captives at the Congo, had rescued the master, crew, and 25 captives and delivered them to Dutch Guiana.[5][6][7] One source described the rebellion as partly successful in that it resulted in some captives regaining their freedom.[4]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Letter of Marque, p.70 - accessed 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  2. 1 2 LR (1805), Supple. pages "J", Seq.№99.
  3. 1 2 Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Jane voyage #81998.
  4. 1 2 Taylor (2009), p. 210.
  5. ↑ LL 18 April 1806, №4045.
  6. ↑ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Byam voyage #80721.
  7. ↑ Inikori (1996), p. 74.

References

  • 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.
  • Taylor, Robert (2009). If We Must Die: Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade. LSU Press.
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