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the help of captives that she had embarked, had seized the ship and killed the officers. Fraser was concerned that French
Captain Renaud, who was at Senegal, intended to arm the Spanish vessel as soon as she had landed her cargo and sail her as a privateer against British interests. Fraser cobbled together a force under an Army captain named Lloyd that sailed to attack the vessel in the unarmed government schooner at Fraser's disposal, apparently with
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In early June 1801 Colonel Fraser, the commander of the
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Forster sailed from Liverpool on 28 September 1806. Between 1 January 1806 and 1 May 1807, 185 vessels cleared Liverpool outward bound in the slave trade. Thirty of these vessels made two voyages during this period. Of the 155 remaining vessels, 114 were regular slave ships, having
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Demerara on 25 December. There she sold the captives she had acquired. She sailed from Demerara on 6 March 1802 and arrived back at Liverpool on 25 May. She had left Liverpool with 28 crew members and had suffered 11 crew deaths on her voyage.
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providing armed support. The expedition was successful in that it was able to set fire to the
Spanish vessel, whose crew had abandoned it as the British approached in boats. There were no British casualties in the operation.
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Olderman had been a highly experienced captain. Before 1797 he had made 13 voyages to the Guinea coast and Sierra Leone, and had testified before
Parliament. In 1796–1797 he had been captain of
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had lost four men killed, and eight wounded, her captain and second mate being among the wounded. The privateer took the
British survivors aboard her. They arrived at Guadaloupe on 11 October.
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repelled the first attack and a running fight began that lasted until about 3pm. Then the privateer made a second attempt to board, which was successful. Of her crew of 19 men,
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Captain John Olderman sailed from Liverpool on 26 April 1801. In 1800, 133 British vessels left Britain bound on voyages to transport enslaved people; 120 left from Liverpool.
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sailed from Trinidad for Liverpool on 16 June, and arrived there on 29 August. She had left Liverpool with 31 crew members and had suffered 12 crew deaths on her voyage.
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in an operation to destroy a Spanish vessel at Senegal before the French could arm it as a privateer. However, a few days later a slave revolt resulted in the death of
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sailed for Liverpool on 1 May and arrived there on 7 July. She had left Liverpool with 25 crew members and had suffered 10 crew deaths on her voyage.
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Burrows acquired captives in West Africa and arrived at Trinidad on 28 February 1806. (She had first stopped at Suriname.) At some point, after
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Olderman died on 24 June in an insurrection by his captives. Captain John Smith replaced Olderman as master on
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