17947 – Alert (1785 – 1785)

Voyage ID: 17947

Was this a corporate crossing: No

Vessel

Name: Alert

Flags: gb

Tonnage: 182.3

Journey

Departure Year: 1785

Departure Location: Bristol

Arrival Year: 1785

Arrival Location: Bristol

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Gold Coast, port unspecified

Principal landing location: Charleston

Number embarked: 225

Number disembarked: 213

Number of deaths: 12

Outcome

Voyage completed as intended

Sources

Richardson,IV<>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), McMillin<>McMillin, James A., The Final Victims: The Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810 (Columbia, SC., 2004), CD-ROM insert., Lambert,72,295<>Lambert, Sheila (ed.), House of Commons Sessional Papers of the Eighteenth Century, 145 vols. (Wilmington, DE, 1975).

Individuals (1)

P_10404_1071 - John Anderson

Role: Owner