Defiance (1802 ship)

Defiance was a French vessel that first appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1803 with N.Long, master, Gibbons & Co., owners, and trade London–South Seas.[1] That is, she intended to sail as a whaler. She sailed for the South Seas on 7 December 1802, but immediately put into Ramsgate, having sustained damage when she ran on to the Brake.[2] She was driven ashore and wrecked on the coast of France in late December 1802. Captain Nathan Long (of Nantucket), her mate, and seven other crew drowned; 21 crew survived.[3][4][5]

History
United Kingdom
Name: Defiance
Acquired: 1802 by purchase of a prize
Fate: Wrecked December 1802
General characteristics
Tons burthen: 267 (bm)
Complement: 30

It is highly likely that this Defiance is the Defiance that made three voyages as a slave ship and that a privateer captured in late 1800.

Citations
  1. LR (1803), Seq.№D406.
  2. Lloyd's List (LL) 7 December 1802, №4305.
  3. "Shipwrecks". Bury and Norwich Post, or Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex and Cambridge Advertiser (1072). 12 January 1803.
  4. LL 4 January 1803, №4313.
  5. British Southern Whale Fishery Database – Voyages: Defiance.
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