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• 1 media/banniere_navire.jpg 2021-07-22T13:36:48-04:00 Port Louis 46 Port on Île de France (Mauritius) google_maps 2022-05-05T13:31:11-04:00 07/14/1755 - 12/19/1755 -20.164444, 57.504167
  Between July and December 1755, the Prince de Conti was in the vicinity of the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean. It spent most of this time at Port Louis, Île de France (now Mauritius), but also made stops at Saint-Paul and Saint-Denis on Île Bourbon (now Réunion) in November and December. It then returned to Port Louis before beginning the final leg of its voyage back to Europe.
  
  The voyage's second biggest personnel change took place at Port Louis, with 42 people disembarking and 55 people embarking on the Prince de Conti during the five-month period.
  
  The ship's unlucky period carried into its layover in the Mascarenes, with another sixteen people dying at Port Louis or its vicinity, once again doubling the death count. Virtually all of them died of scurvy.
  
  The dead included:
  • Three of the remaining lascars, Kanmahemat Daud (n° 318) Cauja Mahemat Jaroulla (n° 326), and Soucour Mahomet Jafer (AKA "Second" Jafer) (n° 309).
  • Six French sailors.
  • One Maltese sailor, Jean-Jérôme Lartigue (n° 288) who had joined the crew at Cajory.
  • Four novices and "pilotins."
  • The ship's 3rd pilot, Michel François-Pierre le Bonhomme dit Duportal (n° 273).
  Finally, the sixteenth death at Port Louis was that of a 25-year-old baker named Philber Chatel (n° 52). Knowing he was about to die, Chatel proclaimed that his name was actually Didier Cabou, and that he had a brother Antoine. He asked that his £ 299 be used to pay his debts and that the rest be given to the poor. He died on entering the hospital at Port Louis.
  
  Three additional people were admitted to hospital at Port Louis and, as far as we can tell, recovered. One of these, a Capuchin monk named Antonin (n° 294), certainly recovered, as he actually managed to get back on the Prince de Conti about two months later, before it resumed its return voyage.
  
  When the ship left the region in December 1755, its fortunes finally improved. Only one person died for the remainder of the voyage.
• 1 2021-08-13T13:55:31-04:00 The Voyage of the Dauphin (1749-1750) 13 Lorient - Gorée - Mascarenes - Ascension - Lorient plain 2022-05-05T13:44:46-04:00 01/25/1749 - 06/15/1750 The Dauphin was a slave ship vessel owned by the French East India Company. It was built at the Lorient Dockyard in 1748. It had 20 cannons, a crew of 152, and a cargo capacity of 700 tonnes. Under the command of Captain Jean-Baptiste de Lesquelen, the Dauphin travelled to the Mascarene Islands by way of Gorée, West Africa. It spent over six months in the Indian Ocean before making its way back to Europe, stopping at Ascension Island along the way.
  
  A Jean-Marie Tréguier, son of Joséph, is listed as a cabin boy who worked the duration of this voyage. It is quite possible this is our Joséph Tréguier, going by a given name other than the one he shared with his father. He is described as a 10-year-old cabin boy, and he earned a monthly wage of 6 livres.
  
  The Dauphin left Lorient on 25 March 1749. 
  
  It first stop was at Gorée Island, a French trading post in West Africa, where it arrived on 17 April. Here, the Dauphin purchased 52 enslaved Africans to take to the Mascarenes. Considered goods and not passengers, the slaves are not listed on the rôles. Nine days later, the ship set sail for the Mascarenes. 
  
  After 112 days at sea, the Dauphin landed at Port Louis, Île de France (Mauritius) on 16 October 1749. Here, they sold the enslaved Africans they had purchased at Gorée. There is no record of how many of these captives survived the crossing. In their vast study of the Transatlantic slave trade, Eltis and Richardson demonstrate that longer voyages are generally associated with higher mortality rates. According to their estimates for the same period, a voyage of 112 days could easily expect a mortality rate of 14 to 20 percent, so it is statistically probable that seven or more captives died along the way.
  
  The Dauphin, spent over six months in the Mascarenes. Most of this time was spent at Port Louis on Île de France, but the is record of three brief trips over to Île Bourbon (Réunion).
  
  On 7 March 1750, the ship departed for its passage back to Europe. On its return voyage, the Dauphin made a brief stop at Ascension Island in the South Atlantic.
  
  The ship arrived back at Lorient on 15 June 1750. It had been away from Europe for nearly 15 months. If this was Joséph Tréguier's first voyage it must have been a trying time, being away from home for so long. Like any voyage, the ship experienced rigours. Several crew members had disembarked due to illness, while nine had died along the way, along with, undoubtedly, several of the enslaved Africans. But, assuming this is the same person, Joséph Tréguier was not deterred from a life at sea; three years later he was back at it.
• 1 2021-08-13T14:54:55-04:00 The Mascarenes 2 plain 2021-08-13T14:55:12-04:00 08/16/1749 - 03/07/1750 -20.164444, 57.504167 The Dauphin landed at Port Louis, Île de France (Mauritius) on 16 October 1749. Here, presumably, they sold the 52 enslaved Africans they had purchased at Gorée. There is no record how many of these captives survived the crossing.
  
  The Dauphin, spent over six months in the Mascarenes. Most of this time was spent at Port Louis on Île de France, but the is record of three brief trips over to Île Bourbon (Réunion).
  
  On 7 March 1750, the ship departed for its passage back to Europe.