Betsey (ship)

Many ships have been named ''Betsey'' or ''Betsy'': * was a slave ship launched at Liverpool in 1768 that made several voyages transporting slaves from West Africa to the Caribbean until the British

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purchased her in 1777. The Navy sold her in 1778. * was launched in 1787 at Newfoundland. She sailed to England and initially she traded between Bristol and the Mediterranean. In 1792 she made one complete voyage as a

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in the

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in enslaved people before a French privateer captured her on her second slave voyage after she had embarked slaves in West Africa and was bringing them to Jamaica. * was launched at Liverpool as a

. She made six complete voyages as a slaver. A French privateer captured her in 1799 after she had delivered her slaves on her seventh voyage. * was launched in Bermuda in 1791. By 1793 she was a Liverpool privateer. In 1798 the French captured her as she was on her way to acquire enslaved people from the

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to carry them to the West Indies. * was launched at Lancaster as a West Indiaman. In 1801 she made one voyage for the British

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(EIC). On her return she became a Baltic trader, but was lost in 1803. * , was launched at Bristol in 1800, and sailed as a West Indiaman. American privateers captured her twice in 1813 but each time she was recaptured. She was last listed in 1825. * was launched in 1801 at

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, India. Around 1814 new owners renamed her ''Marquis of Wellington''. As ''Marquis of Wellington'' she

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convicts to New South Wales. She was returning to England in 1818 when she was wrecked there. * was launched at Poole. She made two voyages as a

. French privateers captured her on the second voyage but the British

recaptured her. Afterwards she was briefly a West Indiaman. She was wrecked in February 1807. * was a ship launched at Chittagong that wrecked at New Zealand in 1815. * was a schooner wrecked in the China Sea in 1805 Citations {{italic title Ship names