Several vessels have been named Chance:
Chance, a schooner of 39 tons ( bm), was launched in 1786 at St John's Newfoundland. She became a Liverpool-based slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. Captain Jame Millbanke sailed from Liverpool on 31 March 1787. She was condemned on the coast of Africa as unfit for service. [1] In 1787 nine British enslaving vessels were lost, four of them on the coast. [2]
Chance was a schooner launched in Virginia in 1779, probably under another name. From 1786 she traded between London and Africa, though she may have traded in enslaved people within African waters. A tornado on 28 March 1789 upset her. Her crew saved themselves, but abandoned her and the 33 captives onboard. By chance, another vessel later was able to rescue the 11 captives by then still alive.
Chance (1799 ship) was built in India c.1799. She was captured and recaptured before being lost near Saint Mary's Bay, Madagascar in May 1799.
Chance was built in Salem, Massachusetts (possibly in 1846), as North West. She was renamed Chance in 1863 when owned in Australia. From 1874 to 1876 she was an Invercargill-based whaling ship before being reduced to a coaling hulk at Bluff. She was ashore at Bluff in 1902. [3] [4] [5]
Several vessels have been named Chance:
Chance, a schooner of 39 tons ( bm), was launched in 1786 at St John's Newfoundland. She became a Liverpool-based slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. Captain Jame Millbanke sailed from Liverpool on 31 March 1787. She was condemned on the coast of Africa as unfit for service. [1] In 1787 nine British enslaving vessels were lost, four of them on the coast. [2]
Chance was a schooner launched in Virginia in 1779, probably under another name. From 1786 she traded between London and Africa, though she may have traded in enslaved people within African waters. A tornado on 28 March 1789 upset her. Her crew saved themselves, but abandoned her and the 33 captives onboard. By chance, another vessel later was able to rescue the 11 captives by then still alive.
Chance (1799 ship) was built in India c.1799. She was captured and recaptured before being lost near Saint Mary's Bay, Madagascar in May 1799.
Chance was built in Salem, Massachusetts (possibly in 1846), as North West. She was renamed Chance in 1863 when owned in Australia. From 1874 to 1876 she was an Invercargill-based whaling ship before being reduced to a coaling hulk at Bluff. She was ashore at Bluff in 1902. [3] [4] [5]