Ship, nation, owners Voyage identification number 79001
Voyage in 1999 CD-ROM Yes
Vessel name Happy
Flag Denmark
Flag IMP Denmark / Baltic
Place constructed British plantations
Year constructed
Place registered Whitehaven
Year registered
Rig Ship
Tonnage 150
Standardized tonnage IMP 272
Guns mounted 10
Vessel owners
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
First place of slave purchase Casamance
Second place of slave purchase
Third place of slave purchase
Principal place of slave purchase IMP Casamance
Places of call before Atlantic crossing
First place of slave landing St. Kitts, port unspecified
Second place of slave landing
Third place of slave landing
Principal place of slave landing IMP St. Thomas
Place where voyage ended
Region where voyage began IMP
First region of slave purchase Senegambia and offshore Atlantic
Second region of slave purchase
Third region of slave purchase
Principal region of slave purchase IMP Senegambia and offshore Atlantic
First region of slave landing St. Kitts
Second region of slave landing
Third region of slave landing
Principal region of slave landing IMP Danish West Indies
Region where voyage ended
Voyage Dates Year arrived with slaves IMP 1768
Date voyage began
Date trade began in Africa
Date vessel departed Africa
Date vessel arrived with slaves 1768-05-27
Date vessel departed for homeport
Date voyage completed
Voyage length, homeport to slaves landing (days) IMP
Middle passage (days) IMP 91
Captain and Crew Captain's name Harrison, John
Sebrantsen, Class
Ypes, Wouter
Crew at voyage outset 25
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
Total slaves embarked IMP 326
Number of slaves arriving at first place of landing 269
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 269
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 57
Mortality rate IMP 17.0%
Source Sources ADM7/94:

Admiralty, National Archives (UK)


BT6/3,168:

BNA (Kew, London)

, Board of Trade

LList, 16 Aug 1768:

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


SchofieldArchive: Schofield, Maurice M., Notes on Liverpool slave ships between 1774 and 1778, currently held by David Richardson (University of Hull).
Richardson,Schofield,197: Richardson, David and Maurice M. Schofield,"Whitehaven and the Eighteenth Century British Slave Trade," Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, 92 (1992): 183-204.