The Voyage of the Dauphin (1757)
Joséph Tréguier is listed as a cabin boy who worked the duration of this voyage. It is quite possible this is our Joséph Tréguier, having reported his father's name as Jean rather than the name they shared. He is listed as a cabin boy from Lorient, and earning a monthly wage of 6 livres. Tréguier had actually been on this same ship previously. His first voyage was on the Dauphin in 1749-1750, at which time the Dauphin had been a slaving vessel.
The Dauphin had a fitful departure. It launched on 6 March, but was still in the Lorient harbour on the 22nd. By 9 April it had only made it as far as Groix, a tiny island just a few kilometres off the coast of Lorient. This may have been due to the weather, but since the voyage was intended to be to India and only made it as far as the Mascarene Islands, the condition of the ship itself may have been a factor. Finally, on 3 May, the ship began making its way south.
A month later it was at Santiago, Cabo Verde, where it spent twelve days. It arrived at Île de France on 1 October. For several months, the ship traveled between Île de France, Île Bourbon and Madagascar until it was condemned sometime in early 1758. But by that point, Joséph Tréguier had already disembarked. The rôle states that he left the Dauphin at Île Bourbon on 11 November 1757. It says he was on the island until 31 January when he got on the Bien Aimé. The rôle goes on to explain that he took the Bien Aimé to Pondichéry, and ended up staying in the town from 1 May 1758 to 15 January 1761—almost three years! It is unclear how the Dauphin rôle managed to follow Tréguier for three and a half years after he left the ship.
