17463 – Myrtle (1759 – 1759) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 17463

Was this a corporate crossing: No

Vessel

Name: Myrtle

Flags: gb

Tonnage: 182.3

Journey

Departure Year: 1759

Departure Location: Bristol

Arrival Year: 1759

Arrival Location: /

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Gambia

Principal landing location: St. Kitts, port unspecified

Number embarked: 250

Number disembarked: 181

Number of deaths: 69

Outcome

Shipwrecked or destroyed, after disembarkation

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), T70/1530,List of Arrivals and Departures<>BNA (Kew) (), MR,MSC,f.17r<>Misplaced reference, BRO, SMV/9/3/3/4,106<>Bristol Record Office (Bristol, UK) Society of Merchant Venturers, Sailors’ petitions for relief from the Society of Merchant Venturers

17463 – Myrtle (1759 – 1759)

Vessel

Journey

Enslaved people

Outcome

Sources

Individuals (4)

P_10404_0956 - James Rumsey

P_10404_1068 - John Malton

P_10404_1069 - Thomas Jenkins

P_10404_0756 - John Brown