76363 – Mermaid (a) Sirena (1732 – 1732) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 76363

Was this a corporate crossing: No

Vessel

Name: Mermaid (a) Sirena

Flags: gb

Tonnage: 431.1

Journey

Departure Year: 1732

Departure Location: London

Arrival Year: 1732

Arrival Location: London

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: West Central Africa and St. Helena, port unspecified

Principal landing location: Buenos Aires

Number embarked: 690

Number disembarked: 590

Number of deaths: /

Outcome

Voyage completed as intended

Sources

ADM7/78<>British National Archives (Kew), Admiralty, C103/130<>The National Archives (Kew, UK) Chancery, Add.mss,25504,f.259<>British Library, Additional Manuscripts (London, UK), Add.mss,25505,56<>British Library, Additional Manuscripts (London, UK), Gill,88<>Gill, Conrad, Merchants and Mariners of the Eighteenth Century (London, 1961). , Palmer,117<>Palmer, Colin, Human Cargoes: The British Slave Trade to Spanish America (Urbana, 1981)., Studer<>De Studer, Elena F. S., Trata de Negros en el Rio de la Plata Durante el Siglo XVII (Buenos Aires, 1984)., ADM68/196,103<>British National Archives (Kew), Admiralty, WR,32.04.15.<>Weekly Register

76363 – Mermaid (a) Sirena (1732 – 1732)

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Journey

Enslaved people

Outcome

Sources

Individuals (3)

P_10433_1948 - Thomas Hall

P_10433_1955 - Sir William Chapman

P_10433_1956 - John Butler