Harriot (1797 ship)
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For other ships with the same name, see Harriet (ship).
Harriot (or Harriet) was launched in Spain in 1794, almost surely under another name, and taken in prize in 1797. She made two voyages as a London-based slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. Under new ownership, she then made three voyages as a whaler in the British southern whale fishery. A privateer captured her as she was returning from her third whale-hunting voyage but the British Royal Navy recaptured her. After her recapture she became a merchantman. The Spanish seized her in the Pacific; she was condemned at Lima, Peru in March-April 1809, as a smuggler.
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Name | Harriot |
Builder | Spain |
Launched | 1794 |
Acquired | 1797 by purchase of a prize |
Captured | 1809 |
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Tons burthen | 217,[1] or 226, or 227[1] (bm) |
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