I would like to mention that the Captain of the Constantia might be William Moyse not Moyne, born 1778 at ¿Swansea?, a Quaker. It is strange to me that a coastal vessel (below) like the Constantia of Moyse would do the cross-atlantic trip. Can someone comment on this? Are Moyne-Moyse, Constantia-Constantia, the same ones?
Kenneth M. Hay and Joy Roberts. The Sea Voyages of Edward Beck in the 1820s. Bishop Auckland, England: Pentland Press, 1996. xiv + 221pp., glossary. £15, cloth; ISBN 1-85821-435-1.
Edward Beck informs his reader very early why he went to sea. It was to "see foreign lands and people." (p. 4) Born in 1803, he was apprenticed out at age 16 as a cabin boy to Captain Moyse, a fellow member of his parents' Quaker community. For four years he sailed aboard the Constantia, a coastal vessel of several hundred tons and a crew of eleven, freighting goods between several ports in southern England and Ireland. By 1823 he had grown tired of coastal voyaging and, with the help of his parents, he freed himself from his commitments to Moyse.
http://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/vol07/tnm_7_3_63-135.pdf
