Frederick (1805 ship)
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| Name: | Frederick |
| Port of registry: | London |
| Launched: | 1805, America |
| Fate: | Last listed in 1822 |
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| Tons burthen: | 239, or 240 (bm) |
| Propulsion: | Sail |
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Frederick was an American-built ship that the British captured from the French c.1805. Lumley & Co. purchased her in prize and employed her as a slave-ship for two voyages. After the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807 she briefly became a merchantman, and then in 1810 a whaler. She made several voyages to the South Seas fisheries. On one of these voyages, in 1812, a French privateer captured Frederick but the British Royal Navy captured the privateer, and recaptured Frederick. She is last listed in 1822.
Frederick enters Lloyd's Register in the Supplemental pages in 1805 with M'Donald, master, Thomas Lumley, owner, and trade London-Africa.
Captain James MacDonald received a letter of marque on 3 September 1805. He then sailed Frederick on two slaving voyages. In 1806 he sailed to the Gold Coast to gather the slaves. He delivered them to British Guiana. The next year he sailed to the Bight of Benin, and from there delivered the slaves to Jamaica.
After the abolition of the slave trade, Frederick began trading with the Brazils. Then in late 1809, Lumley sold her to W. Wilson. Her trade changed from London-Curacoa to London-South seas fisheries, and her master changed from M'Donald to A. Bodie.
Captain Alexander Bodie received a letter of marque on 28 April 1810. He sailed Frederick from Britain on 26 May. She arrived at Port Jackson on 21 October, with merchandise, having called in at Rio de Janeiro on the way.
Frederick then left Port Jackson 30 November for the "sperm fishery". The fishing grounds were off the Derwent River of Van Diemen's Land.
Frederick, E. Bunker, master, returned to Port Jackson on 20 August 1811 from the fishery, with 55 tons of sperm oil for the London market. She left for the fishery again on 9 October, in ballast and again under Alexander Bodie's command.
On 27 September 1812, Frederick left St Helena with the whalers Admiral Berkley and Argo, under escort by HMS Galatea, returning from the Indian Ocean. Frederick separated from the other three ships on 27 October, off Ascension. On 31 October the convoy encountered the USS President and the USS Congress at 33°10′N 20°28′W / 33.167°N 20.467°W. They gave chase and Congress captured Argo, but Galatea escaped and arrived at Portsmouth.
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