Princess Royal

Princess Royal was launched at Liverpool in 1790. She made four voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. The French captured her in 1794 at the beginning of her fifth enslaving voyage. Slaver Princess Royal first appears in Lloyd's Register with William Forbes, master, John Dawson, owner, and trade Liverpool–Africa. On all four slave trading voyages that Princess Royal completed, she gathered her captives in the Bight of Biafra and Gulf of Guinea islands. In 1791 she delivered them to Cuba. On the other voyages she took them to Jamaica. 1st enslaving voyage (1790): Dawson sailed from Liverpool on 29 April 1790. He gathered his captives at Bonny Island and delivered them to Kingston, Jamaica on 6 November with 528 captives. Also, four of his 46 crew members died on the voyage. Princess Royal sailed from Kingston on 22 December and arrived back at Liverpool on 14 February 1791.