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{{other ships|Fame (ship)}}
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|Ship country=Great Britain
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|Ship owner=*1779:A. Clibourn<ref name=LR1779>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044020483558?urlappend=%3Bseq=108 ''Lloyd's Register'' (1779), Seq. №F388.]</ref>
*1782:Long & Co.<ref name=LR1782/>
*1796:Calvert & Co.<ref name=LR1796/>
|Ship builder=[[Hilhouse#Hilhouse and Company built ships|Hillhouse]], Bristol{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|p=31}}
|Ship name=''Fame''
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|Ship launched=1779
|Ship fate=Last listed in ''Lloyd's Register'' in 1807
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|Ship tons burthen=420,<ref name=LR1797>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044105233043?urlappend=%3Bseq=122 ''LR'' (1797), №F54.]</ref> or 450,<ref name=LR1779/>{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|p=31}} or  454<ref name=RS1800>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015021233591?urlappend=%3Bseq=125 ''Register of Shipping'' (1800), Seq.№F227.]</ref>  ([[Builder's Old Measurement|bm]])
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|Ship armament=*1779:12 × 9-pounder + 6 × 4-pounder guns<ref name=LR1779/>
*1782:10 × 9-pounder + 6 × 6-pounder guns<ref name=LR1782/>
*1799:4 × 6-pounder + 8 × 4-pounder guns
*1800:2 × 9-pounder + 8 × 6-pounder + 10 × 4-pounder guns<ref name=LR1800>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044105233019?urlappend=%3Bseq=135 ''Lloyd's Register'' (1800), Seq.№F54.]</ref>
*1802:6 × 10 × 6-pounder guns + 10 × 4-pounder guns
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'''''Fame''''' was built at Bristol in 1779 as a [[West Indiaman]]. Between 1797 and 1799 she made one or two voyages to India for the British [[East India Company]] (EIC). She then made two voyages to Africa as a [[slave ship]] in the [[triangular trade]] in enslaved people. On her return from Africa she resumed her trading with Jamaica. She is last listed in ''[[Lloyd's Register]]'' (''LR'') in 1807.
==Career==
''Fame'' entered ''Lloyd's Register'' in 1779 with J. Burrows, master, and trade Bristol transport.<ref name=LR1779/> In 1782 her master changed from Burrows to J. Aldis, and her owner from A. Clibbourn to Long & Co. Her trade remained Bristol to Jamaica.<ref name=LR1782>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044019372358?urlappend=%3Bseq=99 ''Lloyd's register'' (1782), Seq. №F10.]</ref> In 1789 her master was J. Aldis, changing to J. Carr, her owner Long & Co., and her trade London—Jamaica.<ref name=LR1789>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044020166310?urlappend=%3Bseq=108 ''Lloyd's Register'' (1789), Seq.№F14.]</ref>
In 1796 Calvert & Co. purchased ''Fame'' from Long & Co.<ref name=LR1796>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044105233050?urlappend=%3Bseq=120 ''Lloyd's Register'' (1796), Seq. №F25.]</ref> In connection with the transfer of ownership, ''Fame'' underwent a thorough repair.<ref name=LR1797/>
===EIC voyage(s)===
Captain Henry Liddell sailed from Portsmouth on 31 July 1796, bound for [[Chennai|Madras]] and [[Kolkatta|Calcutta]]. ''Fame'' reached [[Visakhapatnam|Vizagaptam]] on 12 January 1797, and arrived at Calcutta on 10 February. On her homeward journey she was at [[Simon's Town|Simon's Bay]] on 22 July, reached [[Saint Helena]] on 11 September, and arrived at [[Erith]] on 19 September.<ref name=BL>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS045-001114993 British Library: ''Fame'' (2).]</ref> Another report has ''Fame'', Captain Henry Liddell, sailing to Madras and Calcutta between 22 February 1796 and 18 December 1797, and then sailing [[Mumbai|Bombay]] and Bengal between 22 March 1798 and 30 April 1799.{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|p=31}} A third source has ''Fame'', Richard Owen, master, returning from Bombay on 3 May 1799.{{sfnp|Hardy|1800|p=223}}
===Enslaving voyages===
''Fame'' made two enslaving voyages.
'''1st enslaving voyage (1799-1800):'''  Captain Diedrick Woolbert sailed from London on 27 November 1799. ''[[Lloyd's List]]'' (''LL'') reported on 27 December that ''Fame'', Woolbert, master, had put into Sheerness, having lost anchors and cables.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c3049070?urlappend=%3Bseq=235 ''LL'' №4010.]</ref> By 3 December she was at Deal, preparing to sail. Woolbert purchased captives at [[Cape Coast Castle]] and delivered 384 captives to Demerara on 23 December 1800.<ref>[https://www.slavevoyages.org/voyage/81373/variables Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – ''Fame'' voyage #81373.]</ref>
'''2nd enslaving voyage (1801–1802):'''
Captain Woolbert sailed from London on 22 September 1801. He commenced purchasing captives at Cape Coast Castle on 18 January 1802. He also purchased captives at Accra. He delivered 380 captives to Havana on 1 May 1802.<ref>[https://www.slavevoyages.org/voyage/81374/variables Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – ''Fame'' voyage #81374.]</ref>
''Fame'' then left the slave trade. On 4 January 1802, ''Fame'', Woolbert, master, arrived at Dover from Rotterdam.
==Information from the Registers==
The table below comes primarily from ''Lloyd's Register'' ("LR"), though it also contains information from the ''Register of Shipping'' where volumes are available and provide information that is different from that in ''Lloyd's Register''. Entries in either register are only as accurate as owners chose to make them.
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| 1795
| J. Aldis
| Long & Co.
| London—Jamaica
| ''LR''
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| 1796
| J. Aldis<br>H. Liddell
| Long & Co.<br>Calvert & Co.
| London—Jamaica<br>London—(illegible)
| ''LR''
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| 1797
| H. Liddell
| Calvert & Co.
| London—East Indies
| ''LR''
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| 1798
| H.Liddell<br>R. Owen
| Calvert & Co.
| London—India
| ''LR''
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| 1799
| R.Owen<br>Jameson<br>Woolbert
| ''Calvert & Co.''
| London—India<br />[[Cork (city)|Cork]] transport
| LR
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| 1800
| Jameson<br>Woolburt
| Calvert & Co.
| London transport
| ''RS''
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| 1800
| Woolbert
| Calvert & Co.
| London—Africa
| ''LR''
|-
| 1801
| Woolbert
| Calvert & Co.
| London—Africa
| ''LR''
|-
| 1802
| Woolbert
| Calvert & Co.
| London—Africa
| ''LR''
|-
| 1804
| Woolbert
| Calvert & Co.
| London—Africa
| ''LR''
|-
| 1804
| Woolbert
| Calvert & Co.
| London—Jamaica
| ''RS''
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| 1805
| Woolbert
| Calvert & Co.
| London—Africa
| ''LR''
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| 1805
| Woolbert
| Calvert & Co.
| London—Jamaica
| ''RS''
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| 1806
| Woolbert
| Calvert & Co.
| London—Africa
| ''LR''; thorough repair 1796 and repairs 1798
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| 1807
| Woolbert
| Calvert & Co.
| London—Africa
| ''LR''; thorough repair 1796 and repairs 1798
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==Citations==
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==References==
* {{cite book |last=Hackman |first=Rowan |year=2001 |title=Ships of the East India Company |location=Gravesend, Kent |publisher=World Ship Society |isbn=0-905617-96-7 }}
* {{citation |last=Hardy |first=Charles |date=1800 |title=A Register of Ships, Employed in the Service of the Hon. the United East India Company, from the Union of the Two Companies, in 1707, to the Year 1760: Specifying the Number of Voyages, Tonnage, Commanders, and Stations. To which is Added, from the Latter Period to the Present Time, the Managing Owners, Principal Officers, Surgeons, and Pursers; with the Dates of Their Sailing and Arrival: Also, an Appendix, Containing Many Particulars, Interesting to Those Concerned in the East India Commerce}}
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