Frederick (1805 ship)

Frederick was an American-built ship that the British captured from the French c.1805. Lumley & Co. purchased her in prize and employed her for two voyages as a slave-ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. After the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807 she briefly became a merchantman, and then in 1810 a whaler. She made several voyages to the Southern Whale Fishery. On one of these voyages, in 1812, a French privateer captured Frederick but the British Royal Navy captured the privateer, and recaptured Frederick. She is last listed in 1822.