Little John (Bristol)

Locality
Coordinate	51.454969, -2.58882
Adm. div.	Gloucestershire
Vicinity	The harbour, Bristol
Type	Transport
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct
First Record	1727

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Bristol.

Bristol Harbour c. 1850 / Bristol Record Office, via Wikipedia, public domain.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-08-25. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

Little John was the name of a ship based at Bristol which undertook at least one slave trading voyage in 1727.

Records

1727 - Little John of Bristol

[30 Sep. 1727:]
[The 70 ton vessel Little John of Bristol, owned by Samuel Day and with William Barry as master, made a voyage to Africa, bringing slaves to Barbados and 20 tons of redwood to Bristol, to which it returned on 30 Sep. 1727.]

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.

Also see

• Ship names
• Places named after Little John.

Notes

Gloucestershire place-names 

 Place-names