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Thetis was launched in 1801 at Lancaster as a West Indiaman. In 1804, in single ship action, she repelled an attack by a French privateer. Between 1806 and 1808 she made two complete voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. On the second, in early 1808 as Thetis was coming to Barbados from Africa, she again drove off a French privateer in a single ship action. With the end of the slave trade, Thetis returned to trading, first with the West Indies and then with Bahia. She was wrecked in December 1815 near Sunderland. Career Thetis first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR), in August 1801. Captain John Charnley acquired a letter of marque on 17 July 1801. After war with France resumed in 1803, Captain John Charnley acquired another letter of marque on 26 September 1803.

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Thetis: Nereid of Greek mythology · 1794 Chittagong ship · radar decoy · list of ships with the same or similar names

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Thetis was launched in 1801 at Lancaster as a West Indiaman. In 1804, in single ship action, she repelled an attack by a French privateer. Between 1806 and 1808 she made two complete voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. On the second, in early 1808 as Thetis was coming to Barbados from Africa, she again drove off a French privateer in a single ship action. With the end of the slave trade, Thetis returned to trading, first with the West Indies and then with Bahia. She was wrecked in December 1815 near Sunderland. Career Thetis first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR), in August 1801. Captain John Charnley acquired a letter of marque on 17 July 1801. After war with France resumed in 1803, Captain John Charnley acquired another letter of marque on 26 September 1803.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).