Mary Ann (1806 ship)
Mary Ann was a British ship launched in 1806 at Chester. She measured about 313 tons and carried four 9-pounder guns and ten 24-pounder carronades.
She made one voyage as a slave ship. Captain Nathaniel McGhie left Liverpool on 8 December 1806 for the Gold Coast and arrived at Jamaica on 20 July 1807 with 298 captives. She sailed from Jamaica on 29 September and reached Liverpool on 21 November. She started the voyage with 45 crew members and suffered three crew deaths. By the time she returned, the Slave Trade Act 1807 had banned British ships from the slave trade.
Her next voyage was as a West Indiaman to Jamaica. Under Captain Ferguson, she arrived at Gravesend from Jamaica on 12 July 1808. In 1809 Captain Bernie sailed her to Port Jackson (Sydney), arriving on 14 August and leaving on 15 October for England.
In 1812, Mary Ann sailed from England under Captain Joseph Moore (though some records list Bernie as master) for New South Wales and then the British southern whale fishery. She reached Port Jackson on 12 August with merchandise, then on 4 October sailed for the sperm whale fishery. The voyage took her to New Zealand, Timor, and the Moluccas. She returned home via the Cape of Good Hope and Saint Helena, arriving in England on 6 November 1814, escorted part of the way by HMS Barracouta.
Although Lloyd’s Register kept Mary Ann listed to 1823, her records had not changed since 1819, and she had already been condemned in 1816. On 9 November 1816, as Mary Ann, with Rowe as master, she was on a voyage from Liverpool to Charleston when she was driven ashore at Garston, Liverpool. Her cargo was discharged, and a later report said she had been surveyed and found unworthy of repair.
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