Leander (1799 ship)

On 17 January 1801 a privateer of 22 guns and 160 men captured Leander, Anderson, master, as she was on her way from Jamaica back to London.^[4]

French sources reported that the French privateer Mon Oncle Thomas, of Rochelle, fitted out by Citizen Segaray, had captured the British West Indiaman Leander, of 600 tons and twenty-six 18-pounder carronades, after an action in which the British captain was wounded. Leander was carrying a cargo of coffee, sugar, and indigo, and had an estimated value of Fr.1.5mn. Mon Oncle Thomas brought Leander into Bordeaux.^[5]

The entry for Leander in the 1801 volume of LR bears the annotation "Captured".^[6]

In 1801, 23 British slave ships were lost; according to the source for this data, none were lost on the way home.^[7] However, it was not always clear that a vessel lost on her way back to Britain from the West Indies was a Guineaman that had disembarked her captives. During the period 1793 to 1807, war, rather than maritime hazards or resistance by the captives, was the greatest cause of vessel losses among British slave vessels.^[8]

• Inikori, Joseph (1996). "Measuring the unmeasured hazards of the Atlantic slave trade: Documents relating to the British trade". Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer. 83 (312): 53–92. doi:10.3406/outre.1996.3457.