Defiance was a French vessel that first appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1803 with N.Long, master, Gibbons & Co., owners, and trade London–South Seas.LR (1803), Seq.№D406. That is, she intended to sail as a whaler. She sailed for the South Seas on 7 December 1802, but immediately put into Ramsgate, having sustained damage when she ran on to the Brake.Lloyd's List (LL) 7 December 1802, №4305. She was driven ashore and wrecked on the coast of France in late December 1802. Captain Nathan Long (of Nantucket), her mate, and seven other crew drowned; 21 crew survived.LL 4 January 1803, №4313.British Southern Whale Fishery Database – Voyages: Defiance.
It is highly likely that this Defiance is the that made three voyages as a slave ship and that a privateer captured in late 1800.
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