Ship, nation, owners Voyage identification number 35158
Voyage in 1999 CD-ROM Yes
Vessel name Fredericus Quartus (a) Frederick IV
Flag Denmark
Flag IMP Denmark / Baltic
Place constructed
Year constructed
Place registered
Year registered
Rig
Tonnage
Standardized tonnage IMP
Guns mounted
Vessel owners Vestindisk-guineiske Kompagni
Voyage Outcome Particular outcome of voyage Shipwrecked or destroyed, after disembarkation
Outcome of voyage for slaves IMP Slaves disembarked in Americas
Outcome of voyage if ship captured IMP Natural hazard
Outcome of voyage for owner IMP Original goal thwarted (natural hazard)
African resistance Slave insurrection
Voyage Itinerary Place where voyage began IMP København
First place of slave purchase Windward + Ivory + Gold + Benin
Second place of slave purchase Christiansborg
Third place of slave purchase Keta
Principal place of slave purchase IMP Christiansborg
Places of call before Atlantic crossing Cape of Good Hope
First place of slave landing Portobelo
Second place of slave landing
Third place of slave landing
Principal place of slave landing IMP Portobelo
Place where voyage ended
Region where voyage began IMP Denmark
First region of slave purchase Other Africa
Second region of slave purchase Gold Coast
Third region of slave purchase Bight of Benin
Principal region of slave purchase IMP Gold Coast
First region of slave landing Spanish Circum-Caribbean
Second region of slave landing
Third region of slave landing
Principal region of slave landing IMP Spanish Circum-Caribbean
Region where voyage ended
Voyage Dates Year arrived with slaves IMP 1710
Date voyage began
Date trade began in Africa 1709-03-??
Date vessel departed Africa 1709-10-02
Date vessel arrived with slaves 1710-02-??
Date vessel departed for homeport
Date voyage completed
Voyage length, homeport to slaves landing (days) IMP
Middle passage (days) IMP
Captain and Crew Captain's name Fijfe, Dirk
Crew at voyage outset
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 50
Slaves carried from second port of purchase 290
Slaves carried from third port of purchase 103
Total slaves embarked 433
Total slaves embarked IMP 433
Number of slaves arriving at first place of landing
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 374
Slave (characteristics) Percentage men IMP 52.1%
Percentage women IMP 36.0%
Percentage boys IMP 7.7%
Percentage girls IMP 4.2%
Percentage male IMP 59.8%
Percentage children IMP 11.9%
Sterling cash price in Jamaica IMP
Slave deaths during middle passage IMP
Mortality rate IMP
Source Sources Nørregård,67-68,89:

Nørregård, Georg, Danish Settlements in West Africa, 1658-1850 (Boston, 1965).


Westergaard,152: Westergaard, Waldemar, The Danish West Indies Under Company Rule (1671-1754) (New York, 1917).
Justesen,v.1,V,18,23,25: Justesen, Ole, Danish Sources for the History of Ghana, 1657-1754, 2 vols. (Copenhagen, 2005).
GAA,NA,6065:177,8/11/10:

Amsterdam City Archives


Hernæs,251-252:

Hernæs, Per O, Slaves, Danes, and African Coast Society: The Danish Slave Trade from West Africa and Afro-Danish Relations on the Eighteenth Century Gold Coast (Trondheim, 1995).