Aggie (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.LR (1778), Seq.No.A98.
Year Master Owner Trade Source 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.DownesBurrows Wickstead Liverpool–Limerick LR; "now the Spy" 1781 J.Burrows R.Wichfield Liverpool privateerLiverpool–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.Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Spy voyage #83594.
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.
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