Port au Prince (1790 ship)
| History | |
|---|---|
| France | |
| Name | General Dumourier |
| Launched | 1790 |
| Captured | 1793 |
| Great Britain | |
| Name | Port au Prince |
| Acquired | 1793 or early 1794 by purchase |
| Fate | Captured and burned 29 November 1806 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen | 446 (1790–1795), and 466 (1796–1805) (bm) |
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Port au Prince was built in France in 1790. The British Royal Navy captured her in 1793 off Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Her original name was General Dumourier; her new owners named her for her place of capture. She became a letter of marque, slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people, and privateer cum whaler. In 1806 she anchored at a Tongan island where the local inhabitants massacred most of her crew and then scuttled her.