24508 – Thetis (1760 – 1760)
Voyage ID: 24508
Was this a corporate crossing: No
Vessel
Name: Thetis
Flags: gb
Tonnage: 60.0
Journey
Departure Year: 1760
Departure Location: Lancaster
Arrival Year: 1760
Arrival Location: /
Enslaved people
Principal purchase location: Africa., port unspecified
Principal landing location: Martinique, port unspecified
Number embarked: 250
Number disembarked: 209
Number of deaths: /
Outcome
Captured by pirates or privateers - after embarkation of slaves
Sources
BT6/3,158<><p><em>TNA</em> (Kew, London)</p>, LList, 24 June 1760<><i>Lloyds’ Lists (1741, 1744, 1747-53, 1755, 1757-58, 1760-77, 1779-1808)</i>, LList, 3 Mar 1761<><i>Lloyds’ Lists (1741, 1744, 1747-53, 1755, 1757-58, 1760-77, 1779-1808)</i>, Elder,154,156<>Elder, Melinda, <i>The Slave Trade and the Economic Development of Eighteenth Century Lancaster</i> (Halifax, 1992). , Schofield,254<><p>Schofield, Maurice M.,"The Slave Trade from Lancashire and Cheshire Ports Outside Liverpool, c. 1750-c. 1790," in Roger Anstey and P.E.H. Hair (eds.), <em>Liverpool, the African Slave Trade, and Abolition</em>, enlarged edition (Liverpool, 1989).</p>
Individuals (2)
P_10430_0025 - John Preston
Role: Captain
P_10430_0023 - Miles Barber
Role: Owner