Sarah (1797 ship)

History
Great Britain
NameSarah
BuilderLiverpool
Launched1797
FateCaptured 1804
General characteristics
Tons burthen386 (bm)
PropulsionSail
Complement
  • 1797:30
  • 1799:40
  • 1803:50
Armament
  • 1797:20 × 9-pounder + 4 × 12-pounder guns
  • 1799:20 × 9-pounder + 4 × 12-pounder guns
  • 1803:2 × 12-pounder + 18 × 9-pounder guns

Sarah was launched at Liverpool in 1797. She then made six voyages as a Liverpool-based slave ship in the triangular trade carrying enslaved people from West Africa to the West Indies. A French privateer captured Sarah in 1804 in a single-ship action on her seventh voyage after Sarah had gathered her slaves but before she could deliver them to the West Indies.