page_title: Duff (1794 ship)
section_title: Second voyage and loss
hierarchical_section_title: Duff (1794 ship) / Second voyage and loss
caption_attribution_description: English: HARBOUR of RIO JANIERO, with the BENEDICTINE MONASTERY, part of the CITY and SHIP DUFF
context_page_description: Duff was a ship launched on the Thames in 1794. In 1796 the London Missionary Society engaged her to take a party of missionaries to the South Pacific. Once she had landed the missionaries she sailed to China and took a cargo back to England for the British East India Company. On this voyage her captain named a variety of South Pacific islands. On her second voyage to deliver missionaries a French privateer captured her off the coast of Brazil on the outward-bound leg of her voyage.
context_section_description: Captain Thomas Robson and Duff left Britain on 20 December 1798. She was carrying a second group of 30 missionaries for the South Pacific.
  The French privateer Grande Buonaparte captured Duff on 19 February 1799 off Cape Frio near Rio de Janeiro. Her captors took Duff to Montevideo, Uruguay, where they released her crew and passengers. The missionaries finally arrived back at London on 5 October 1799.
  Her captors sold Duff. Subsequently, Portuguese privateers captured Duff, only to lose her to French privateers. Her subsequent fate is currently unknown.
caption: Duff at Rio Janiero (sic) in 1799
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