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Adventure

French ship (1799)

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Adventure was a vessel built in France that the British captured c.1799. New owners immediately sailed her as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She then made a voyage as West Indiaman during which a French privateer captured her, but the British Royal Navy quickly recaptured her. She made a second slave trading voyage. Thereafter she became a general trader, trading primarily with the Baltic. She was wrecked in October 1814. Although she was refloated and taken into Copenhagen, she disappeared from subsequent ship arrival and departure data. Career Adventure first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1800 with G.Bernard, master, Gibb, owner, and trade London–Africa. She had undergone repairs in 1799. Captain George Bernard acquired a letter of marque on 3 December 1799. 1st enslaving voyage (1800–1801): Captain Bernard sailed from Liverpool on 16 January 1800, bound for Bonny. Adventure delivered 337 captives to Kingston, Jamaica on 31 August. She returned to Liverpool on 28 January 1801. West Indiaman: On her return from this voyage, new owners sailed her as a West Indiaman.

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“Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.”
— Logan Pearsall Smith
“In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.”
— Mircea Eliade, in Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)
“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.”
— Edwin Hubble, "The Exploration of Space", Harper's Magazine, Volume 158 (May 1929), p. 732
“Adventures never happen now-a-days; there are neither knights nor highwaymen; no lonely heaths, with gibbets, for finger-posts; no hope of even a dangerous rut, or a steep hill; romance and roads are alike macadamised; no young ladies are either run away with, or run over; —”
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality (1831), Vol. I Chapter 3
“The potential for adventure makes life worth living.”
— Vicki Garside, from MakeTimeToSeeTheWorld.com (2019)
“Qui ne s'adventure n'a cheval ny mule, ce dist Salomon.—Qui trop, dist Echephron, s'adventure—perd cheval et mule, respondit Malcon.”
— He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.—Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,—loses horse and mule, replied Malcon.

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Overview

Adventure was a vessel built in France that the British captured c.1799. New owners immediately sailed her as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She then made a voyage as West Indiaman during which a French privateer captured her, but the British Royal Navy quickly recaptured her. She made a second slave trading voyage. Thereafter she became a general trader, trading primarily with the Baltic. She was wrecked in October 1814. Although she was refloated and taken into Copenhagen, she disappeared from subsequent ship arrival and departure data. Career Adventure first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1800 with G.Bernard, master, Gibb, owner, and trade London–Africa. She had undergone repairs in 1799. Captain George Bernard acquired a letter of marque on 3 December 1799. 1st enslaving voyage (1800–1801): Captain Bernard sailed from Liverpool on 16 January 1800, bound for Bonny. Adventure delivered 337 captives to Kingston, Jamaica on 31 August. She returned to Liverpool on 28 January 1801. West Indiaman: On her return from this voyage, new owners sailed her as a West Indiaman.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.”
— Logan Pearsall Smith
“In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.”
— Mircea Eliade, in Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)
“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.”
— Edwin Hubble, "The Exploration of Space", Harper's Magazine, Volume 158 (May 1929), p. 732
“Adventures never happen now-a-days; there are neither knights nor highwaymen; no lonely heaths, with gibbets, for finger-posts; no hope of even a dangerous rut, or a steep hill; romance and roads are alike macadamised; no young ladies are either run away with, or run over; —”
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality (1831), Vol. I Chapter 3
“The potential for adventure makes life worth living.”
— Vicki Garside, from MakeTimeToSeeTheWorld.com (2019)
“Qui ne s'adventure n'a cheval ny mule, ce dist Salomon.—Qui trop, dist Echephron, s'adventure—perd cheval et mule, respondit Malcon.”
— He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.—Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,—loses horse and mule, replied Malcon.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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