Preston (ship) explained

Several ships have been named Preston:

• Preston was launched at Liverpool in 1769 under another name. As Tom she made one voyage in 1779 as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people.^[1] She became Preston in 1780,^[2] and then under the command of Captain William Brighouse she made five voyages as a slave ship.^[3] In 1789 Preston became Apollo.^[4]
• was an East Indiaman. She made six voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) between 1805 and 1819. In 1810 and 1811 she participated as a transport in two British military campaigns. She was sold for breaking up in 1812 but instead became a transport and a West Indiaman. She disappeared after a gale in August 1815.
• was a Dano-Norwegian vessel that the British captured c.1809. As a British merchantman she initially traded with the Iberian peninsula. An American vessel captured and released her in 1812 and she foundered later that year.
• W. T. Preston was a sternwheeler that operated from 1929 to 1981 as a snagboat on rivers in Puget Sound.

See also

• – any one of three vessels of the British Royal Navy
• – any one of six vessels of the United States Navy

Notes and References

1. https://www.slavevoyages.org/voyage/91958/variables Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Tom voyage #91958.
2. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015065522651?urlappend=%3Bseq=244 Lloyd's Register (1781), Seq.no.P237.
3. https://www.slavevoyages.org/voyage/database#results Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade – Database: Preston.
4. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015065522511?urlappend=%3Bseq=231 Lloyd's Register (1789), Seq.no.P306.