Ship Details
Rig
Ship of East India Company
Built
1794
Built In
Tonnage
267
Demise
Captured 1799 by French Privateer. Subsequent fate unknown
Description
Duff was a ship launched on the Thames in 1794. In 1796 the London Missionary Society engaged her to take a party of missionaries to the South Pacific. Once she had landed the missionaries she sailed to China and took a cargo back to England for the British East India Company. On this voyage her captain named a variety of South Pacific islands. On her second voyage to deliver missionaries a French privateer captured her off the coast of Brazil on the outward-bound leg of her voyage.
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