Adventure was a vessel built in France around 1799, soon after which the British captured her. She was initially employed as a slave ship engaged in the triangular trade, with her first recorded enslaving voyage commencing in 1800. Under the command of Captain G. Bernard, she sailed from Liverpool on 16 January 1800, bound for Bonny. She successfully delivered 337 enslaved Africans to Kingston, Jamaica, on 31 August, before returning to Liverpool in January 1801. Her construction repairs are noted in 1799, and she was registered in Lloyd's Register in 1800 with G. Bernard as master, owned by Gibb, and traded between London and Africa. Following her first voyage, Adventure was repurposed as a West Indiaman. During this period, she encountered a notable event when a French privateer, Mouche, captured her near the Western Islands while she was sailing from London to Martinique. The British Royal Navy ship HMS Bordelais recaptured her after a long chase on 8 January 1801. The privateer also captured another ship, Aurora, but both vessels were recovered by the British, with Adventure arriving at Barbados on 3 February 1801 and then sailing on to Martinique. Captain William Findlay undertook her second enslaving voyage in 1801, departing London on 5 September with a letter of marque. She delivered 358 captives to Kingston on 1 March 1802 after sailing from New Calabar, passing Demerara en route. She returned to London in July 1802. Later, Adventure transitioned into general trading, primarily with the Baltic. In October 1814, she was driven ashore at Dragør, Denmark, during a voyage from Saint Petersburg to Portsmouth. Although initially reported to be full of water and possibly lost, she was refloated and taken into Copenhagen. Despite this incident, she continued to appear in Lloyd's Register for several subsequent years, though she eventually disappeared from shipping records, marking the end of her maritime service.

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