Union was launched in 1791 in Liverpool, England. She became a slave ship that the French captured on her first slave voyage. Captain R. Farrington sailed for West Africa on 15 August 1792.Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Union voyage #83890.
Captain George Hauit acquired a letter of marque for Union on 1 March 1793, just after the outbreak of war with France.
The French privateer Liberty, of Bordeaux, captured seven slave ships before July 1793: Union, Farrington, , , , , , and , Roper, master. The capture of Union took place off Bassa.
recaptured Little Joe and Echo. recaptured Prosperity; the cutter recaptured Mercury. Liberty ransomed Swift after plundering her.
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