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History
United Kingdom
Name	Defiance
Acquired	1802 by purchase of a prize
Fate	Wrecked December 1802
General characteristics
Tons burthen	267 (bm)
Complement	30

Defiance was a French vessel that first appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1803 with N.Long, master, Gibbons & Co., owners, and trade London–South Seas. That is, she intended to sail as a whaler. She sailed for the South Seas on 7 December 1802, but immediately put into Ramsgate, having sustained damage when she ran on to the Brake. She was driven ashore and wrecked on the coast of France in late December 1802. Captain Nathan Long (of Nantucket), her mate, and seven other crew drowned; 21 crew survived.

It is highly likely that this Defiance is the Defiance that made three voyages as a slave ship and that a privateer captured in late 1800.

Citations

1. LR (1803), Seq.№D406.
2. Lloyd's List (LL) 7 December 1802, №4305.
3. "Shipwrecks". Bury and Norwich Post, or Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex and Cambridge Advertiser. No. 1072. 12 January 1803.
4. LL 4 January 1803, №4313.
5. British Southern Whale Fishery Database – Voyages: Defiance.

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1802
Shipwrecks	4 Jan: HMS Coromandel 28 Jan: Black Joke January (unknown date): Admiral Mann, Desaix, HMS Fly 25 Feb: Suffolk February (unknown date): Earl Spencer 2 Mar: HMS Sensible 25 Mar: Norfolk 29 Mar: HMS Assistance, Caroline 12 Apr: Bangalore 14 May: Fly June (unknown date): Duke of Portland, John Bull 13 Jul: Butterworth 23 Sep: HMS Pomone September (unknown date): Young William 23 Nov: Vreede November (unknown date): Sir Thomas Pasley 9 Dec: Hannah December (unknown date): Defiance, Mercury, Trojan Unknown date: L'Enterprise, Earl Spencer
Other incidents	22 Jan: HMS Amazon December (unknown date): Nonsuch
1801 1803

• 1800s ships
• Captured ships
• Whaling ships
• Maritime incidents in 1802
• Shipwrecks of France