Elizabeth (1798 Liverpool ship)

History
Great Britain
NameElizabeth
OwnerJohn Bolton (merchant)
Launched1798, Liverpool
Captured1805
General characteristics
Tons burthen310, or 327 (bm)
Complement
  • 1798: 25
  • 1798: 35
  • 1800: 25
  • 1801: 25
  • 1804: 30
  • 1805: 35
Armament
  • 1798: 18 × 9-pounder guns
  • 1798: 18 × 9-pounder guns
  • 1798: 18 × 9-pounder guns + 2 × 18-pounder carronades
  • 1800: 20 × 6&9-pounder guns
  • 1801: 20 × 6&9-pounder guns
  • 1804: 20 × 9&12-pounder cannons
  • 1805: 18 × 9-pounder guns

Elizabeth was launched at Liverpool in 1798. She made five complete voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. Spanish privateers captured her in 1805 while she was on her sixth voyage after she had embarked enslaved people and took her into Montevideo.