Brothers (1782 ship)

History
Great Britain
NameBrothers
Launched1782, Liverpool
CapturedApril 1795
General characteristics
Tons burthen
  • Originally: 110, or 119 (bm)
  • 1790: 130 or 131

Brothers was launched in 1782 at Liverpool as a Guineaman. She made seven complete voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. A French privateer captured her in 1795, on her eighth voyage after she had embarked her captives. In a highly unusual move, the privateer sold Brothers and the captives she was carrying to the master of a Spanish vessel that the privateer had captured. The purchaser then took Brothers into Havana.