This is a list of slave ships. These were ships used to carry enslaved people, mainly in the Atlantic slave trade between the 16th and the 19th centuries.
Abby was of 98 tons (bm). Captain Murdock Murchy sailed from Liverpool on 19 September 1795. He sailed from Africa on 15 May 1796. The French captured Abby in 1796, after she had embarked her captives. She arrived at Martinique in July with 199 captives.Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Abby voyage #80001. Abby was built in the Thirteen Colonies in 1774. She was of 154 tons. She appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1797, with J.Wilson, master, changing to C.Webb, owner J.Kenyon, changing to J.Siving, and trade Liverpool–New York, changing to Liverpool–Africa.LR (1797), Seq.no.7, Captain Webb sailed from Liverpool on 24 May 1797.Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Abby voyage #81742. Lloyd's List reported in December 1797, that the French had captured her and taken her into Gorée. was launched in Liverpool in 1777. She traded locally until 1781 when her owners renamed her Spy and placed her in the slave trade. The French Navy captured her in 1782 in the West Indies as she was arriving to deliver her cargo of enslaved people. Africa was a slave ship that held Olaudah Equiano in 1756. Abdul al-Rahman Ibrahima aka Abduhl Rahhahman aka Abdul Rahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori (1762-1829) was a Fulani prince who was captured and shipped on the Africa to America where he was sold into slavery to Thomas Foster. Ajax Brig mentioned in Bernard Raux slave trade papers, 1828-1836, Harvard University Library. was built on the River Thames in 1744. Between 1752 and 1753 she made one voyage from the Gold Coast to Kingston, Jamaica, where she arrived with 178 captives. was built at Batavia in 1792 and captured in 1797. She sailed from London on 20 May 1798. She embarked captives at Anomabu, and later was reported off Grenada on her way to Jamaica. Her subsequent fate is currently unknown. was a Spanish slave ship captured near Florida in 1820 with 283 captives aboard, leading to The Antelope case. Ariel Brig mentioned in Bernard Raux slave trade papers, 1828-1836, Harvard University Library. Arrogante was a Portuguese schooner captured in 1837. Reportedly, one of the slaves on board was murdered, cut into pieces, cooked, then served with rice to the other slaves. , along with , the first French slave ships that brought the first slaves to Louisiana.
, general-purpose cargo ship that also carried slaves on occasion. A successful slave revolt on the ship gave rise to a case that reached the Supreme Court in United States v. The Amistad. was launched at Chester. She initially sailed as a West Indiaman. In 1792–1793 she made one enslaving voyage. Once in 1796 and again in 1797 she repelled attacks by French privateers in single-ship actions. Backhouse made four more enslaving voyages and then returned to the West Indies trade. After about 1809 she became a London coaster and was last listed in 1813. was launched at Dartmouth. In all, she made four enslaving voyages. Between the second and the third, and after the fourth, she was a West Indiaman. A French privateer captured her early in 1810 as she was returning to Britain from Brazil.
Beeckestijn, Dutch West India Company slaver 1722-1736. Bird, of 244 or 254 tons burthen, was a French prize. Captain Thomas Flynn sailed from Liverpool on 21 November 1798. Bird acquired captives at Bonny and arrived at Martinique on 27 June 1799 with 344 captives. She sailed for Liverpool on 21 July and arrived back there on 18 September. She had left Liverpool with 47 crew members and she had suffered 22 crew deaths on her voyage.Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Bird voyage #80558. On her return, Birds master changed to J.Hughes.Lloyd's Register (1800), Seq.no.197. Bird, Hughes, master, was wrecked in March off Corsica. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Livorno. was launched in the Thirteen Colonies in 1781. She was taken in prize in 1782. She became a Liverpool-based slave ship and from 1783 on made four complete voyages in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She was broken up in 1789. Bloom (1789 ship) was launched in 1789 at Liverpool as a Guineaman. She made three complete enslaving voyages in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She then made a voyage as a West Indiaman, before trading between Cork and Liverpool. She was last listed in 1799. , was a vessel launched in 1788 at New Brunswick. She made one complete enslaving voyage taking captives from West Africa to Jamaica. The French captured her on the outward leg of her second voyage. , sailing in the 1780s. was launched at Liverpool in 1783. Between 1783 and 1800, she made 12 complete voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. In 1796 she repelled an attack by a faster, better armed, and more heavily crewed French privateer in a single ship action. Then in 1798, a French privateer captured her in another single ship action after Buds short but sanguinary resistance. The Royal Navy quickly captured her, and her captor. On her 13th enslaving voyage she was condemned at Kingston, Jamaica after she had arrived with her captives. Caroline was a Portuguese brigantine, captured by on 25 March 1839 near Rio de Janeiro. She was purchased there on 27 May 1840 by the British navy as HMS Fawn. Chato Murgo, from Liverpool to Africa and the West Indies, was lost on the coast of Africa in 1800. City of Norfolk, fitted out in New York City by Albert Horn.Why the Tombs for Slave Trade Execution. Correctionhistory.org (30 November 1907). Retrieved on 2015-12-03. , burned and sunk at Mobile, in 1859 or 1860. Cora, captured by in 1860. Creole, involved in the United States coastwise slave trade and the scene of a slave rebellion in 1841, leading to the Creole case. Desire, first American slave ship. Don was a schooner of 71 tons that sailed from Britain in 1798 and delivered 111 captives to Martinique in 1799.Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Don voyage #81060. Duncan, a Rhode Island slave ship on the African coast in August 1775."Minutes of Enquiry into Administration of the West African Trade: Volume 84." Journals of the Board of Trade and Plantations: Volume 14, January 1776 - May 1782. Ed. K H Ledward. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1938. 126-146. British History Online Retrieved 4 December 2022. , along with Aurore, brought the first slaves to Louisiana. Elisabeth, sailing from Jamaica for West Africa. was launched at Bermuda in 1786 (or 1790). She first appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1802. She then made four enslaving voyages, during the second of which a French privateer captured her; the British Royal Navy quickly recaptured her. After the end of the British slave trade in 1807, she spent a little over a year as a hired armed tender under contract to the Royal Navy. She returned to mercantile service trading with Madeira or Africa, until in late in 1809 another French privateer captured her. was launched at Lancaster in 1798. She made five complete enslaving voyages. Spanish privateers captured her in 1805 while she was on her sixth enslaving voyage after she had embarked captives. was launched at Liverpool. A French privateer captured her in 1807 while she was on her first enslaving voyage. Emanuela, ship seized in 1860 with over 800 slaves aboard. Erie, the ship owned and captained by Nathaniel Gordon, the only American executed for slave trading Esmeralda, captured 1 November 1864 off Loango, West Coast of Africa, by HMS Rattler (1864) and Taken to St. Helena to prize court by C.G. Nelson midshipman in command. Fletcher, 1771-1783 ship owned by John Fletcher of London and mastered by Peleg Clarke of Newport, Rhode Island carried tea"History Bytes: The Boston Tea Party". (3 December 2013). Newport Historical Society website Retrieved 25 December 2022. to the colonies and slaves to Jamaica. , Danish slave ship, sank in 1768 off Tromøya in Norway, after a journey in the triangular trade. wrote a book about the journey. was launched in France or Spain, possibly in 1780. The British captured her in 1797 and she became a West Indiaman, and from 1798 a slave ship. Friendship made two complete voyages carrying captives from West Africa to the West Indies. On her third voyage crew members mutinied, taking her before she had embarked any captives. They sailed for a French port in the Caribbean but the Royal Navy retook her in 1801 and brought her into Barbados. There the Government Agent sold her. The incident resulted in a legal dispute between the owners and the insurers that in 1813 was decided in favour of the owners. New owners in 1803 continued to sail Friendship as West Indiaman. She was last listed in 1810. Gallito, Spanish slave ship carrying 136 Africans when captured by 16 November 1829. Gertrudis la Preciosa, of 295 tons (bm), was the former British vessel Carleton (or Charleton), but was sailing under the Spanish flag. She acquired captives at Old Calabar. She was on her way to Havana when captured her on 9 June 1814 fewer than 20 miles from Fernando Po; was in sight. Gertrudis was brought into Freetown, Sierra Leone, where she and her cargo of 477 or 482 captives were condemned.Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Gertrudis (a) La Preciosa voyage #7510. An appeal of the condemnation was filed. Amongst other things, this revealed that she had left Old Calabar on 1 June with 529 captives on board.Prize appeal case for the ship 'Gertrudis La Preciosa', Jose Torne (master), at the Vice-Admiralty Court of Sierra Leone, 1816. The appeal was partially successful when the claimants demonstrated that they had British assurances that British allies could engage in enslaving without British interference. , Spanish slave ship wrecked in the Florida Keys in 1827 carrying 561 Africans. Hare, a slave ship that plied the Atlantic slave trade. , an English slaver of the Atlantic slave trade. The Hawk, The Hawk sailed for Calabar, with instructions to buy 340 slaves. Hebe, Portuguese slave ship carrying 401 Angolans when captured by 13 July 1832. , sank in 1700 near Marquesas Keys, Florida, excavated in 1980s. , a schooner whose 1840 grounding in the Bahamas led to a controversy between the US and Britain over the 38 slaves who had been on board the ship. , American brig that brought slaves to Rhode Island , British slave ship that brought the first 150 African slaves to the American port of Philadelphia in 1684. Jamaica Planter, Mr. George Burton, merchant of London, was slave trading on Gold Coast and West Indies in 1775. James, was launched in Spain in 1802, almost certainly under another name. She was captured in 1804 and registered in Liverpool in 1806. Captain Robert Tyrer carried ~250 slaves during two voyages. She was condemned after having delivered the captives from her second enslaving voyage. Joaquina, Spanish slave ship carrying 348 Africans when captured by 10 November 1833. Josefa, Spanish schooner carrying 206 slaves when captured by 7 April 1829.
, a 700-ton ship used on the second voyage of John Hawkins to transport 400 captured Africans in 1564. Queen Elizabeth I was his partner and rented him the vessel. King David, sailing from St Christophers, on St Kitts in the Caribbean 1749. (or King Gray), first appeared in online British records in 1786. She made five enslaving voyages between 1786 and 1793. On her last enslaving voyage the French captured her but the Royal Navy quickly recaptured her. She was sold at Kingston, Jamaica. She became a privateer but in December 1795 fire from French Republican shore artillery sank her at Tiburon where she was supporting French Royalist forces as an armed ship. La Concord, a slave ship captured by the pirate Blackbeard (Edward Teach), used as his flagship and renamed . Run aground in June 1718. La Negrita, Spanish slave ship carrying 189 Africans when captured by May 1833.