Little Joe

Little Joe was launched in 1784 in Liverpool as a slave ship. She made six complete voyages from Liverpool in the Atlantic triangular slave trade in enslaved people. On her seventh voyage a French privateer captured her, but a British letter of marque recaptured her. She did not return to the slave trade and was last listed in 1795. Career Little Joe first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1784. 1st voyage transporting enslaved people (1784–1785): Captain Robert Ward sailed from Liverpool on 15 June 1784, bound for the Windward Coast. Little Joe arrived at Barbados with 310 captives and sailed for Dominica on 4 January 1785. She was at Dominica on 21 January 1785 with 309 captives. She left Dominica on 18 March and arrived back at Liverpool on 24 April. She had left Liverpool with 37 crew members and had arrived at Dominica with 28. Over her entire voyage she suffered three crew deaths. When Little Joe arrived in she reported that she had taken up the crew of the French vessel Providence, which had foundered in the Atlantic Ocean while on a voyage from Charleston to London. Little Joe rescued the crew. 2nd voyage transporting enslaved people (1785–1786): Captain Ward sailed from Liverpool on 19 August 1785, bound for the Windward Coast. Little Joe arrived at Dominica on 17 February 1786 with 307 captives. She arrived back at Liverpool on 3 May. She had left Liverpool with 41 crew members and she had arrived at Dominica with 43. She suffered no crew deaths on the voyage.