Several ships have borne the name ''Black Joke'', after an
English song of the same name.
Slave ship
* , made three voyages as a
slave ship between 1764 and 1767.
Naval vessels
* , the captured
slave ship ''Henriquetta'', commissioned in 1827, was employed in suppressing the
slave trade and deliberately burnt as no longer serviceable in 1832 on orders from
London.
* was a
hired armed cutter
Cutter may refer to:
Tools
* Bolt cutter
* Box cutter, aka Stanley knife, a form of utility knife
* Cigar cutter
* Cookie cutter
* Glass cutter
* Meat cutter
* Milling cutter
* Paper cutter
* Side cutter
* Cutter, a type of hydraulic rescue to ...
of ten 6-pounder guns and tons (
bm) that served from 12 January 1795 to 19 October 1801. In 1799 she was renamed ''Suworow'' (or ''Suwarrow'' or ''Soworrow''). Reportedly she burned in 1802.
* was a hired armed
lugger of ten 12-pounder
carronade
A carronade is a short, smoothbore, cast-iron cannon which was used by the Royal Navy. It was first produced by the Carron Company, an ironworks in Falkirk, Scotland, and was used from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century. Its main func ...
s and tons (bm) that entered naval service on 22 May 1808.
[Winfield (2008), p.394.] On 1 July 1810 the French captured ''Black Joke'' in the Channel.
[
These two hired vessels may have been the same. In his narrative of his voyages in the Mediterranean between 1810 and 1814, Charles Robert Cockerell reports that the lugger was an old vessel, having been at the ]Battle of Camperdown
The Battle of Camperdown (known in Dutch as the ''Zeeslag bij Kamperduin'') was a major naval action fought on 11 October 1797, between the British North Sea Fleet under Admiral Adam Duncan and a Batavian Navy (Dutch) fleet under Vice-Admiral ...
, which is consistent with the earliest mentions of the cutter.
Other ships
* ''Burla Negra'' ("Black Joke") was the ship of the pirate Benito de Soto
Benito de Soto Aboal (March 22, 1805, Mouriera, a hamlet now a suburb of Pontevedra, Spain - January 25, 1830, Gibraltar.) Pontevedra is in Galicia in northern Spain where the language is close to Portuguese, which has confused some sources that ...
.
* "Black Joke" was also a nickname for the English privateer ''Liverpool Packet
''Liverpool Packet'' was a privateer schooner from Liverpool, Nova Scotia, that captured 50 American vessels in the War of 1812. American privateers captured ''Liverpool Packet'' in 1813, but she failed to take any prizes during the four months bef ...
,'' that operated during the War of 1812, capturing 50 American vessels.
*Furthermore, there was a lugger ''Black Joke'' that received a letter of marque on 5 May 1801. She was of 25 tons burthen, had two 2-pounder guns and was under the command of Captain Phillip Dupont."Register of Letters of Marque against France 1793-1815"; p.53
Citations and references
Citations
References
*Cockerell, Charles Robert (1903) ''Travels in southern Europe and the Levant, 1810-1817. The journal of C.R. Cockerell''. (London, New York, Longmans, Green, and Co.).
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