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She then sailed from Africa on 30 April 1790, and arrived at Jamaica in June 1790. She had embarked 242 captives and disembarked 240, for an unusually low loss rate of 0.8%. [3] After the passage of Dolben's Act in 1788, masters received a bonus of £100 for a mortality rate of under 2%; the ship's surgeon received £50. For a mortality rate ...
Roselle had been on her way from Jamaica to Norfolk. [7] The Spanish warship was Juno , of twenty-six 12-pounder guns, eight 6-pounder guns, and four "pedreros" of 3-pounds. She had a crew of 294 men.
Cudjoe's Town was located in the mountains in the southern extremities of the parish of St James, close to the border of Westmoreland, Jamaica. [1]In 1690, a large number of Akan freedom fighters already living in the mountains launched an assault on the Sutton's Estate in Clarendon, central Jamaica, free between 300 and 400 enslaved people.
There are several stories regarding the origin of Raynor's ship, the Loyal Jamaica or Royal Jamaica (or Bachelor's Delight). [10] [11]According to one account, in 1683 near Guinea, privateer John Cook captured a Dutch merchantman which he named Batchelor’s Delight, which itself had been the Portsmouth when captured by Dutch privateers from its English owners. [10]
Jennings set sail for Jamaica carrying back an estimated 350,000 peso, [3] or 120,000 pieces of eight, [22] accompanied by fellow Captain John Wills and his crew of the Eagle. [22] On the way his fleet encountered a Spanish merchant ship, which Jennings's captured and plundered. Afterwards he released the crew on their ship, which he did not sink.
HMS Jamaica (1744), a 14-gun sloop launched 1744 and foundered 1770 off Jamaica; HMS Jamaica (1779), a 16-gun sloop purchased in 1779 and sold in 1783; HMS Jamaica, formerly the French 26-gun corvette Perçante, which HMS Intrepid captured in February 1796; [1] she was taken in as a 26-gun sixth rate and sold in 1814.
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The ship was reprovisioned with fresh water, beef, fruit and onions, and after a further provisioning stop in the Cape Verde Islands two weeks later, set sail due south toward the Cape of Good Hope. Several of the crew had brought monkeys aboard as pets, but Cook had them thrown overboard to prevent their droppings from fouling the ship.