General Oglethorpe
Sailing Vessel · United States · Lost 1802 · The Bahamas
An American vessel carrying enslaved captives from the Carolinas to Havana that wrecked near Little Abaco Island in a storm in 1802.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
General Oglethorpe was sailing from Charleston, South Carolina and Virginia toward Havana, Cuba, with a cargo of captive enslaved Africans when she was wrecked by a storm near Little Abaco Island in 1802. The loss is one of a cluster of slave-trade shipwrecks identified in the Greater Abaco region through the Bahamas Lost Ships Project's review of historical shipping and slave-trade records.
Vessel
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- Wood
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Loss
- January 1, 1802
- Storm
- Near Little Abaco Island
- Approach to Little Abaco Island
- Charleston, South Carolina / Virginia → Havana, Cuba
- Captive enslaved Africans
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- Specific casualty figures for this loss are not established in the sources reviewed.
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The Wreck Today
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- Documented under the Bahamas Lost Ships Project managed by Allen Exploration and the Bahamas Antiquities, Monuments and Museums Corporation
Position
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- Little Abaco Island
Evidence
Overall confidence: Sparsely documented (45/100)
Ship type, dimensions, builder and precise loss date and casualty figures are not established in the sources reviewed; the record rests on historical shipping documentation rather than archaeological survey.
Bahamas Maritime Museum / Allen Exploration Ocean Dispatches 5
Named vessel, route, loss location and cause, identification within the wider slaver-ship survey.
Corroboration of route (Charleston/Virginia to Havana) and loss near Little Abaco.
