Английская Википедия:Aggie (1777 ship)
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Шаблон:Infobox ship imageШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship characteristicsAggie (or Agie), was launched in Liverpool in 1777. She traded locally until 1781 when her owners renamed her Spy. She briefly became a privateer, and then a slave ship, engaged in the triangular trade in enslaved people. The French Navy captured her in 1782 in the West Indies as she was arriving to deliver her cargo of slaves on her first slave-trading voyage.
Career
Agie first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1778.[1]
Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source |
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1778 | R.Downes | R.Wicksted | Liverpool–Limerick | LR |
1779 | R.Downes | R.Wicksted | Liverpool–Elsinor | LR |
1780 | R.Downes | R.Wicksted | Galway Bay | LR |
1781 | R.Downes Burrows |
Wickstead | Liverpool–Limerick | LR; "now the Spy" |
1781 | J.Burrows | R.Wichfield | Liverpool privateer Liverpool–Africa |
LR; raised 1780 |
1782 | J.Burrows | Wickstead | Liverpool–Africa | LR; ex-Aggie |
Slave trading voyage: Captain John Burrows sailed Spy from Liverpool in July 1781, bound for West Africa.[2]
Fate
On 4 June 1782 two French frigates captured Spy, Burrows, master, and took her into Dominica. She was carrying 250 captives and six tons of ivory.[3]Шаблон:Sfnp
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