Royal George (1798 ship)

For other ships with the same name, see Royal George (ship).

History
France
Captured	1798
Great Britain
Name	Royal George
Acquired	1798 by purchase of a prize
Captured	1805
General characteristics
Tons burthen	176, or 180 (bm)
Complement	1798:35 1805:10
Armament	18 × 6-pounder guns

Royal George was a French prize that the British captured circa 1798. She made one voyage as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She left that trade and then traded until a French privateer captured her in 1805.

Career

On 24 December 1798 Captain James Walker acquired a letter of marque. In 1799 she made one voyage carrying captives from West Africa to Grenada. At the time her master was James Walker and her owner Thomas Kirkpatrick. She left Liverpool on 2 January 1799, bound for West Central Africa and Saint Helena. She arrived at Grenada on 11 November and landed 185 captives.

Royal George appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1805 with J. Walker, master, Kirkpatrick, owner, and trade Liverpool–Africa. A report from France dated 10 February 1805 stated that the French privateer Adolphe had captured the three-masted ship Royal George off the Isle of Wight. Royal George, of London, had a crew of ten and was carrying ivory, corn, flour, iron, tin, dye wood, and the like. Adolphe left her prize within three leagues of the French Coast. A report dated 14 February stated that Adolphe had taken into Boulogne a British ship carrying flour, dye wood, lead, tin plates, etc. A Royal George appears on a list of British prizes brought into Boulogne between 1793 and 1814.

References

• Norman, Charles Boswell (1887). The Corsairs of France. S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington.