3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies
27045 – Minerva (1758 – 1758)
Voyage ID: 27045
Was this a corporate crossing: No
Vessel
Name: Minerva
Flags: gb
Tonnage: 40.0
Journey
Departure Year: 1758
Departure Location: Lancaster
Arrival Year: 1758
Arrival Location: /
Enslaved people
Principal purchase location: Africa., port unspecified
Principal landing location: Saint John (Antigua)
Number embarked: 250
Number disembarked: 209
Number of deaths: /
Outcome
Captured by the French - after embarkation of slaves
Sources
BT6/3,153<><p><em>TNA</em> (Kew, London)</p>, LList, 16 June 1758<><i>Lloyds’ Lists (1741, 1744, 1747-53, 1755, 1757-58, 1760-77, 1779-1808)</i>, Elder,58,175<>Elder, Melinda, <i>The Slave Trade and the Economic Development of Eighteenth Century Lancaster</i> (Halifax, 1992).