Kitty's Amelia (1803 ship)

History
France
Name	Jeune Amélie
Launched	1802
Captured	1803
United Kingdom
Name	Kitty's Amelia
Owner	Thomas Clarke, Liverpool
Builder	France
Acquired	1803 by purchase of a prize
Fate	Foundered early February 1809; disappears from Lloyd's Register after 1809
General characteristics
Tons burthen	272 (bm)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	1804:40; 1807:42;
Armament	1804:18 x 6&9-pounder guns; 1807:6 × 9&6-pounder guns + 12 × 18-pounder carronades;

Kitty's Amelia was Jeune Amélie launched in France in 1802. A British letter of marque captured her in 1803 and she became a Liverpool-based slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. Between 1804 and 1807 she made four voyages transporting enslaved people, but her chief claim to fame is that she performed the last legal slaving voyage for a British vessel. She was reported wrecked in 1809.

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