Dispatch (1784 ship)

Dispatch was built in Bermuda in 1784 and came to England possibly as early as 1786. In 1792 she made a voyage as a slave ship carrying slaves from Africa to the West Indies in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She was then briefly a privateer before returning to the slave trade. The French captured her in 1795 while she was on her third slave trading voyage.

For other ships with the same name, see Dispatch (ship).

History
Great Britain
NameDispatch'
BuilderBermuda
Launched1784
CapturedDecember 1795
General characteristics
Tons burthen73, or 90 (bm)
Complement
  • 1793 (April):45
  • 1793 (October):12
Armament
  • 1793 (April): 14 × 3-pounder guns
  • 1793 (October): 6 × 3&4-pounder guns
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