Liverpool Packet

Re-registered on January 6, 1816. Wikipedia states "Liverpool Packet was originally the American slave ship Severn, built at Baltimore and captured in 1811.

She was sold in Halifax as a schooner from Liverpool, Nova Scotia, carrying mail and passengers. After the United States declared war, she was pressed into service as a privateer which captured 50 American vessels in the War of 1812. American privateers captured Liverpool Packet in 1813, but she failed to take any prizes during the four months before she was recaptured.

She was repurchased by her original Nova Scotia owners and returned to raiding American commerce. Liverpool Packet was the most successful privateer vessel ever to sail out of a Canadian port." "Liverpool Packet was built at Baltimore and rigged as a Baltimore Clipper style schooner. HMS Tartarus captured the schooner in August 1811. The Halifax Vice Admiralty Court, under Chief Justice Alexander Croke, condemned Severn as an illegal slave ship as both Britain and the United States had recently outlawed the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The court then ordered her sold at auction and Enos Collins and other investors purchased her in October 1811.

They renamed her Liverpool Packet, although she sometimes bore the nickname Black Joke, the name of several 18th century slave ships. At first her owners used the small and fast schooner as a packet ship carrying mail and passengers between Halifax and Liverpool, Nova Scotia."