Mary Ann

Mary Ann was launched in 1806 at Chester. She made one voyage as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. Between 1812 and 1814 she was a whaler in the British southern whale fishery. Afterwards she started trading with Charleston, but in November 1816 she was driven ashore near Liverpool as she was outward bound. She was surveyed and found not worthy of repair. Career Mary Ann first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1806. Captain Nathaniel McGhie sailed from Liverpool on 8 December 1806, bound for the Gold Coast. Mary Ann arrived at Jamaica on 20 July 1807 with 298 captives. She sailed from Jamaica on 29 September and arrived at Liverpool on 21 November. At some point Captain John Ferguson replaced McGhie. She had left Liverpool with 45 crew members and she had suffered three crew deaths on the voyage. By the time Mary Ann returned, the Slave Trade Act 1807, which banned British vessels from engaging in the slave trade, had taken effect. Her next voyage was as a West Indiaman, to Jamaica. Mary Ann, Ferguson, master, arrived at Gravesend from Jamaica on 12 July 1808.