Sally was launched in 1782 at Liverpool as a West Indiaman. She made one voyage as a whaler and one as an East Indiaman sailing to Bengal under charter to the British East India Company (EIC). After a storm damaged her in 1805 as she was on her way in 1805 from Liverpool to Africa as a slave ship she had to put into Barbados where she was condemned.
Career
Sally first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1782 with J.Corning, master, changing to J.Corbett, J.Chorley & Co., owners, and trade Liverpool–Tortola.[1]
Year
Master
Owner
Trade
Source
1783
J.Corbett J.Woods
J.Chorley
Liverpool–Tortola
LR
1792
J.Woods J.Meader
J.Chorley
Liverpool–Southern Fishery
LR
Whaling voyage (1791–1792): Captain John Meader sailed from Liverpool in 1791 (probably on 29 March 1791), bound for Walvis Bay. Sally returned on 19 November 1792.[5]
After Sally returned from whaling, Captain John Woods resumed command. On 11 January 1794 Captain John Woods acquired a letter of marque.[4][a]
Year
Master
Owner
Trade
Source
1794
J.Woods
J.Chorley
Liverpool–Tortola
LR; repairs 1790 and 1792
EIC voyage (1795–1796): Captain Robert Brown acquired a letter of marque on 7 August 1795. Before she sailed, Sally underwent repairs. Sally sailed from Liverpool on 7 September, bound for Bengal. She was at Rio de Janeiro on 14 November, and arrived at Calcutta on 24 February 1796. Homeward bound, she was at Culpee on 2 April, reached St Helena on 23 July and Crookhaven on 27 November, before arriving at the Downs on 12 December.[7]
After Sally returned to England, Captain John Woods resumed command. He acquired a letter of marque on 12 January 1798.[4]
Year
Master
Owner
Trade
Source
1797
J.Brown J.Woods
J.Chorley
Liverpool–Bengal Liverpool–Tortola
LR; repairs 1790, 1792, & 1795
1800
J.Woods
J.Chorley
Liverpool–Tortola
LR; repairs 1790, 1792, & 1795
1805
J.Thompson C.Kincale
Holind & Co.
Cork Liverpool–Africa
LR; repairs 1790, 1792, & 1795
Fate
Captain Charles Kneale sailed Sally from Liverpool on 5 August 1805. The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database states that she was "shipwrecked or destroyed, before slaves embarked".[8]Lloyd's List (LL) reported on 10 December that Sally, Neale, master, from Liverpool to Africa, had put into Barbados dis-masted and that she had been condemned.[9]
Sally did not appear on the lists of vessels cleared to Africa from ports in England.[10] In 1805, 30 British enslaving vessels were lost, five of them on the outbound leg of their voyages.[11] During the period 1793 to 1807, war, rather than maritime hazards or resistance by the captives, was the greatest cause of vessel losses among British enslaving vessels.[12]
Notes
^One source lists the possibility that there was a second whaling voyage, but acknowledges that it cannot conclusively identify either as a whaling or sealing voyage.[6]
Clayton, Jane M (2014). Ships employed in the South Sea Whale Fishery from Britain: 1775–1815: An alphabetical list of ships. Berforts Group. ISBN9781908616524.
Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN0-905617-96-7.
Inikori, Joseph (1996). "Measuring the unmeasured hazards of the Atlantic slave trade: Documents relating to the British trade". Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer. 83 (312): 53–92. doi:10.3406/outre.1996.3457.