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Brooks (1781 ship)
British slave ship 1781–1804 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Brooks (or Brook, Brookes, or Bruz) was a British slave ship launched at Liverpool in 1781. She became infamous after prints of her were published in 1788. Between 1782 and 1804, she made 11 voyages from Liverpool in the triangular slave trade in enslaved people (for the Brooks, England, to Africa, to the Caribbean, and back to England). During this period she spent some years as a West Indiaman. She also recaptured a British merchantman and captured a French merchantman. Brooks's last voyage shipping enslaved people was to Montevideo in the South Atlantic where she was condemned as unseaworthy in November 1804.
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Name | Brooks |
Launched | 1781 |
Fate | Condemned and sold 1804 |
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Type | Slave ship |
Tons burthen | 297,[1] or 300,[2] or 319,[1] or 352,[1] or 353[1] (bm) |
Length | 30 metres (98 ft) |
Beam | 8.2 metres (27 ft) |
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