Brooks (1781 ship)

Brooks

Brookes slave ship plan
History
→ Great Britain → United Kingdom
Name	Brooks
Launched	1781
Fate	Condemned and sold 1804
General characteristics
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)
Complement	1794: 15[1] 1799: 25[1] 1804: 50[1]
Armament	1781: 18 × 9 & 6-pounder guns[2] 1794: 12 × 6-pounder guns[1] 1799: 18 × 9-pounder guns[1] 1800: 18 × 9-pounder guns + 2 × 18-pounder carronades 1804: 18 × 9-pounder guns + 2 × 18-pounder carronades

Brooks (or Brook, Brookes) 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.