17211 – Montserrat Packet (1748 – 1748) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 17211

Was this a corporate crossing: No

Vessel

Name: Montserrat Packet

Flags: gb

Tonnage: 74.3

Journey

Departure Year: 1748

Departure Location: Bristol

Arrival Year: 1748

Arrival Location: /

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: New Calabar

Principal landing location: Bight of Biafra and Gulf of Guinea Islands, port unspecified

Number embarked: 330

Number disembarked: 140

Number of deaths: 190

Outcome

Shipwrecked or destroyed, after embarkation of slaves or during slaving

Sources

Richardson,III<>Richardson, David, Bristol, Africa and the Eighteenth Century Slave Trade to America: Volume 1, The Years of Expansion, 1698-1729 (Bristol, 1986); Volume 2, The Years of Ascendancy, 1730-1745 (Bristol, 1987); Volume 3, The Years of Decline, 1746-1769 (Bristol, 1991); Volume 4, The Final Years, 1770-1807 (Bristol, 1997), LList, 14 Mar 1749<>Lloyds’ Lists (1741, 1744, 1747-53, 1755, 1757-58, 1760-77, 1779-1808), LList, 21 Mar 1749<>Lloyds’ Lists (1741, 1744, 1747-53, 1755, 1757-58, 1760-77, 1779-1808), Remembrancer,49.03.17<>Remembrancer (London, 1747-49), WEP,49.03.21.<>Whitehall Evening Post (London)

Individuals

No information