• Source: Diligence (1799 ship)

Diligence was a Spanish prize that British owners acquired in 1799. She initially traded as a West Indiaman. Then in 1801–1802 she made one complete voyage as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. On her second voyage transporting enslaved people, the French captured her in 1804 before she had embarked any captives.




Career


Diligence first appeared in the Register of Shipping in 1800.

Captain E. Higgins sailed from London on 2 October 1801. Diligence arrived at St Vincent in June 1802.

Captain Thomas Boland sailed from London on 4 October 1803. In 1803, 99 vessels sailed from English ports, bound for the trade in enslaved people; 15 of these vessels sailed from London.
In April 1804, Lloyd's List reported that that the French had captured Diligence, Bowland, master, and had taken her into Gorée. She had been on her way from London to Africa.
In 1804, 30 British slave vessels were lost; six were captured on their way to Africa. During the period 1793 to 18047, war, rather than maritime hazards or slave resistance was the greatest cause of vessel losses among British slave vessels.




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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.
Sturgess, Gary L.; Cozens, Ken (2013). "Managing a Global Enterprise in the Eighteenth Century: Anthony Calvert of The Crescent, London, 1777–1808". Mariner's Mirror. 99 (2): 171–195.
Williams, Gomer (1897). History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque: With an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade. W. Heinemann.

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