Catherine

Several vessels have been named Catherine:Catherine, of 100 tons (bm), was brig built in Bermuda of mahogany and Bermuda cedar. She was sheathed in 1786, but may have been built earlier and had the name Santa Catalina. She first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in the volume for 1786, with W.M'Donough, master, P.Morgan, owner, and voyage Mississippi to London. On 1 December 1787, he sailed to Africa on an enslaving voyage. Catherine arrived at La Balize, Louisiana on 9 September 1788, with 294 captives. She then became a Liverpool-based West Indiaman. In 1792 she made a second enslaving voyage. Captain James Mcewan replaced M'Donough and sailed from Liverpool on 27 October 1792 on a second enslaving voyage. Catherine started acquiring captives at Ambriz at 6 April 1793. Captain McEwan died of a fever on 17 April; Captain William Makee replaced him. Catherine sailed from Africa on 8 July, and arrived at Kingston on 18 September. She had embarked 163 captives and she arrived with 167. At Kingston she was condemned. She had left Liverpool with 16 crew members and had suffered four crew deaths on her voyage.