Ship, nation, owners Voyage identification number 36264
Voyage in 1999 CD-ROM Yes
Vessel name Apollo
Flag U.S.A.
Flag IMP U.S.A.
Place constructed Rhode Island, port unspecified
Year constructed 1762
Place registered Newport
Year registered 1762
Rig Sloop
Tonnage 60
Standardized tonnage IMP 110
Guns mounted
Vessel owners D'Blois, Louis*
Voyage Outcome Particular outcome of voyage Sold slaves in Americas - subsequent fate unknown
Outcome of voyage for slaves IMP Slaves disembarked in Americas
Outcome of voyage if ship captured IMP Not captured
Outcome of voyage for owner IMP Delivered slaves for original owners
African resistance
Voyage Itinerary Place where voyage began IMP Rhode Island, port unspecified
First place of slave purchase Gambia
Second place of slave purchase Windward + Ivory + Gold + Benin
Third place of slave purchase Cape Coast Castle
Principal place of slave purchase IMP Cape Coast Castle
Places of call before Atlantic crossing
First place of slave landing Kingston
Second place of slave landing
Third place of slave landing
Principal place of slave landing IMP Kingston
Place where voyage ended
Region where voyage began IMP Rhode Island
First region of slave purchase Senegambia and offshore Atlantic
Second region of slave purchase Other Africa
Third region of slave purchase Gold Coast
Principal region of slave purchase IMP Gold Coast
First region of slave landing Jamaica
Second region of slave landing
Third region of slave landing
Principal region of slave landing IMP Jamaica
Region where voyage ended
Voyage Dates Year arrived with slaves IMP 1763
Date voyage began 1762-09-14
Date trade began in Africa
Date vessel departed Africa
Date vessel arrived with slaves 1763-07-14
Date vessel departed for homeport 1763-09-05
Date voyage completed
Voyage length, homeport to slaves landing (days) IMP 303
Middle passage (days) IMP
Captain and Crew Captain's name Morris, Owen
Crew at voyage outset
Crew at first landing of slaves 6
Crew deaths during voyage
Slave (numbers) Number of slaves intended at first place of purchase
Slaves carried from first port of purchase 60
Slaves carried from second port of purchase 30
Slaves carried from third port of purchase
Total slaves embarked 90
Total slaves embarked IMP 90
Number of slaves arriving at first place of landing 101
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 101
Slave (characteristics) Percentage men IMP
Percentage women IMP
Percentage boys IMP
Percentage girls IMP
Percentage male IMP
Percentage children IMP
Sterling cash price in Jamaica IMP
Slave deaths during middle passage IMP
Mortality rate IMP
Source Sources Coughtry, 241-85:

Coughtry, Jay, The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700-1807 (Philadelphia, 1981).


T70/1263:

British National Archives (Kew)


Donnan,III,186:

Donnan, Elizabeth, ed., Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to the Americas, vol. III (Washington, DC, 1930)


LList, 13 May 1763:

New Lloyd's List (later, Lloyd's List), (London, England)


LList, 16 Sept 1763:

New Lloyd's List (later, Lloyd's List), (London, England)


CO142/18,17-8,25-6:

Colonial Office BNA (Kew)