24508 – Thetis (1760 – 1760) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

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<>TNA (Kew, London), LList, 24 June 1760<>Lloyds’ Lists (1741, 1744, 1747-53, 1755, 1757-58, 1760-77, 1779-1808), LList, 3 Mar 1761<>Lloyds’ Lists (1741, 1744, 1747-53, 1755, 1757-58, 1760-77, 1779-1808), Elder,154,156<>Elder, Melinda, The Slave Trade and the Economic Development of Eighteenth Century Lancaster (Halifax, 1992). , Schofield,254<>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.), Liverpool, the African Slave Trade, and Abolition, enlarged edition (Liverpool, 1989).

24508 – Thetis (1760 – 1760)

Vessel

Journey

Enslaved people

Outcome

Sources

Individuals (2)

P_10430_0025 - John Preston

P_10430_0023 - Miles Barber