History | |
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Great Britain | |
Name | Admiral Kingsmill |
Namesake | Sir Robert Kingsmill, 1st Baronet |
Owner |
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Acquired | 1796 |
Fate | Captured 1799 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Brig |
Tons burthen | 120, [1] or 139, [2] or 160 [3] ( bm) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Complement | 50 [2] |
Armament | 10 × 4&6-pounder guns [2] |
Notes | Tin sheathing |
Admiral Kingsmill appeared in Lloyd's Register for 1797 as a British clinker-built and Cork-based privateer. The entry showed her master as Thornton. She had undergone repairs in 1796 and was armed with ten 6-pounder guns. [1] Captain Eleazer Thornton acquired a letter of marque for Admiral Kingsmill on 19 December 1796. [2] Lloyd's Register for 1798 described her as a tin-sheathed brig. It gave her burthen as 160 tons and her trade as Liverpool-Africa, indicating that she was probably a slave ship.
A database of slave-trading voyages showed her master as Hugh Kessick, and her owners as James Penny, James Penny, Jr., Moses Benson, and John Backhouse. She left Liverpool on 8 June 1797 and gathered her slaves from West Central Africa. Admiral Kingsmill delivered 263 slaves to Martinique on 20 March 1798. [3]
Admiral Kingsmill was last listed in Lloyd's Register and the Register of Shipping in 1800.