Ship, nation, owners Voyage identification number 34430
Voyage in 1999 CD-ROM Yes
Vessel name Eléonore
Flag France
Flag IMP France
Place constructed
Year constructed
Place registered Nantes
Year registered
Rig Brig
Tonnage 62
Standardized tonnage IMP 62
Guns mounted 2
Vessel owners Lemercier
Voyage Outcome Particular outcome of voyage Vice-Admiralty Court, Sierra Leone, condemned ,
Outcome of voyage for slaves IMP Slaves disembarked in Old World
Outcome of voyage if ship captured IMP British
Outcome of voyage for owner IMP Original goal thwarted (human agency)
African resistance
Voyage Itinerary Place where voyage began IMP Nantes
First place of slave purchase Sherbro
Second place of slave purchase
Third place of slave purchase
Principal place of slave purchase IMP Sherbro
Places of call before Atlantic crossing
First place of slave landing Freetown
Second place of slave landing
Third place of slave landing
Principal place of slave landing IMP Freetown
Place where voyage ended Martinique, place unspecified
Region where voyage began IMP France
First region of slave purchase Sierra Leone
Second region of slave purchase
Third region of slave purchase
Principal region of slave purchase IMP Sierra Leone
First region of slave landing Sierra Leone
Second region of slave landing
Third region of slave landing
Principal region of slave landing IMP Sierra Leone
Region where voyage ended Martinique
Voyage Dates Year arrived with slaves IMP 1825
Date voyage began 1824-05-16
Date trade began in Africa
Date vessel departed Africa
Date vessel arrived with slaves 1825-07-21
Date vessel departed for homeport
Date voyage completed
Voyage length, homeport to slaves landing (days) IMP 431
Middle passage (days) IMP
Captain and Crew Captain's name Mourailleau
Crew at voyage outset 18
Crew at first landing of slaves
Crew deaths during voyage
Slave (numbers) Number of slaves intended at first place of purchase
Slaves carried from first port of purchase
Slaves carried from second port of purchase
Slaves carried from third port of purchase
Total slaves embarked 140
Total slaves embarked IMP 140
Number of slaves arriving at first place of landing 128
Number of slaves disembarked at first place of landing
Number of slaves disembarked at second place of landing
Number of slaves disembarked at third place of landing
Total slaves disembarked IMP 128
Slave (characteristics) Percentage men IMP 35.2%
Percentage women IMP 13.3%
Percentage boys IMP 33.6%
Percentage girls IMP 18.0%
Percentage male IMP 68.8%
Percentage children IMP 51.6%
Sterling cash price in Jamaica IMP
Slave deaths during middle passage IMP 12
Mortality rate IMP 9.0%
Source Sources IUP,ST,10/B/113: Great Britain, Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers: Slave Trade, vols. 1-90 (Shannon, 1969-74).
Daget:

Répertoire des expéditions négrières françaises à la traite illégale (Nantes, 1988)


PP,1826,XXIX:136:

Great Britain, Parliamentary Papers: 1777, Accounts and Papers, No 9 1788, XXII 1789, XXIV, XXV, XXVI 1790, XXIX, XXX, XXXI 1790-91, XXXIV 1792, XXXV 1795-96, XLII 1798-99, XLVIII 1799 XLVIII 1801-2, IV 1803-4, X 1806, XII 1813-14, XII 1816, VII 1823, XIX 1825, XXVII, XXIX 1826, XXIX 1826-7, XXII, XXVI 1828, XXVI 1829, XXVI 1830, X 1831, XIX 1831-32, XLVII 1842, XLIV 1845,XLIX 1847-8, XXII 1852-3, XXXIX


Add.mss,43125,ff.340-41:

British Library, Additional Manuscripts (London, UK)


Meyer-Heiselberg,20:

Meyer-Heiselberg, R., Notes from the Liberated African Department in the Archives at Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone (Uppsala, 1967)