Snow Fox
Biography
The Snow was a British merchant vessel financed by Liverpool merchants.One of the principle investors was William Davenport.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
A Jornal of An Intended Voige By Gods Permition on Bord the good Snow Foxe, Samuel Laing Commander
Item
Identifier: 003521
Codex 003521
Date(s):
1773-03-12 to 1773-12-16
Content Description
Ships log for the 'Snow Fox' with daily entries providing a record of a voyage engaged in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, recording co-ordinates, weather conditions, shipboard employment, and remarks from the ship's initial journey from Britain to the Bight of Biafra, taking on enslaved Africans, the "Middle Passage" across the Atlantic to Barbados with a brief landfall in St. Thomas to provision, and return journey to Britain. There are three entries per page, the final pages with lists of...