| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | James Monroe |
| Owner | Daniel Sullivan, Rennselaer Havens, and Frederick Jenkins |
| Port of registry | New York City |
| Builder | Amasa Miller, New London, Connecticut |
| Launched | 1813 |
| Notes | Privateer in War of 1812 |
 Spain | |
| Renamed | San Jose |
| Notes | slave runner/pirate |
| Name | Pepe (1826) |
| Renamed | Guerrero (1827) |
| Fate | Wrecked 19 December 1827 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen | 32338⁄95 (bm) |
| Length | 110 ft 2 in (33.6 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 5 in (8.4 m) |
| Draft | 11 ft 11+1⁄2 in (3.6 m) |
| Sail plan | Hermaphrodite brig |
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Guerrero was a Spanish slave ship that wrecked in 1827 on a reef near the Florida Keys with 561 Africans aboard. Forty-one of the Africans drowned in the wreck. Guerrero had been engaged in a battle with a British anti-slavery patrol ship, HMS Nimble, stationed on the northern approaches to Cuba. Nimble also ran onto the reef, but was refloated and returned to service. The two ships were attended by wreckers, who rescued the Spanish crew and surviving Africans from their ship and helped refloat Nimble. Spanish crew members hijacked two of the wrecking vessels and took almost 400 Africans to Cuba, where they were sold as slaves. Most of the remaining Africans were eventually returned to Africa.[1]
- ^ Shearer 2008, pp. 8–9; Swanson 2005, pp. 14–16.