Several vessels have been named ''Necker'' (or ''Neckar''), probably for the French statesman
Jacques Necker
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* was a French privateer operating out of Dunkirk. She made several cruises before she was herself captured early in 1781.
*''Necker'' was a French privateer that in late 1781 or early 1782 captured ''Jamaica Packet'' after a severe engagement that lasted two hours in which ''Jamaica Packet'' suffered three men killed and two wounded. ''Jamaica Packet'' had been sailing from Quebec to Jamaica when captured and her captor sent her into
Port-au-Prince
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*''Necker'' or ''Neker'' was an armed transport that captured off the
Cape of Good Hope
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on 25 October 1781. The British
Royal Navy
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commissioned her as . She disappeared, presumed foundered, circa December 1781 on her way from
Saint Helena
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to the East Indies.
* was a French
whaler
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operating out of Dunkirk under United States masters that made four complete whaling voyages to Greenland, the coast of Brazil, and the Pacific, before a British privateer captured her in September 1793 on ''Necker''s fifth voyage after the outbreak of
war with France.
*''Necker'', of 360 tons ("of load"), made one voyage transporting enslaved persons from Mozambique to Port-au-Prince. She left Le Havre on 24 April 1790 for Mozambique. Between 19 February 1791 and 2 March she was at the Cape of Good Hope with 390 captives. She arrived at Port-au-Prince with 380. She arrived at Nantes on 22 July 1791.
Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – ''Necker'' voyage #32812.
/ref> ''Neckar'', Voltearo, master, was lost in 1792 on the Hogties as she sailed from France to Santo Domingo.
Citations
References
*Mettas Jean. ''Répertoire des expéditions négrières françaises au XVIIIe siècle''. Tome Second: Ports autres que Nantes. Index établis par Jean-Claude Nardin. Paris : Société française d'histoire d'outre-mer, 1984. (Bibliothèque d'histoire d'outre-mer. Instruments de travail, 2)
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