Robust (1782 ship)
| History | |
|---|---|
| France | |
| Launched | 1779 |
| Captured | 1781 |
| Great Britain | |
| Name | Robust |
| Owner |
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| Acquired | 1782 by purchase of a prize |
| Fate | Last listed in 1798 |
| Notes | Some sources give the vessel's name as Robert, or report both names. |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen | 313, or 315, or 346, or 350(bm) |
| Length | 98 ft 6 in (30.0 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 9 in (8.5 m) |
| Complement | c.40 |
| Armament | 16 × 9&6-pounder guns + 2 × 6-pounder carronades + 6 Swivel guns |
| Notes | Two decks & three masts |
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Robust was built in France in 1779. The British captured her in 1781 and she was registered at Liverpool in 1783. She first entered Lloyd's Register in 1789 as whaler in the northern whale fishery (Greenland and Davis Strait). Then in December 1788 she left on the first of three voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. On her third voyage as a slave ship Robust captured a French slave ship and recaptured two British slave ships that a French privateer had captured earlier. After her third voyage as a slaver owners shifted her registry to Bristol and she then made two voyages to the southern whale fishery. She returned from the second voyage in 1797 and is last listed in 1798.