[3] In the late 1780s and early 1790s, Hazard sailed to Africa, including the Îles de Los.

1st slave trading voyage (1791–1792): Captain Archibald Forest sailed from Liverpool on 4 June 1791, bound for West Africa.

[4] 2nd slave trading voyage (1792–Loss): Captain Gilbert Rigby sailed from Liverpool on 27 September 1792.

[5] He was issued a letter of marque on 24 April 1793,[2] shortly after the outbreak of war with France.

The French privateer Liberty, of Bordeaux, captured seven slave ships before July 1793: Hazard, Echo, Union, Little Joe, Mercury, Prosperity, and Swift, Roper, master.